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Best Hem And Haw Poems

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Playing Games
There aren't many games I play
For most of them require
Some patience and some strategy
Or, at the least, desire.

I quite enjoy my "Words with Friends"
But usually...

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Categories: hem and haw, games,
Form: Rhyme



Some Lives Matter More Than Others
Black lives matter
yes they do
Blue lives matter too.

Green and red and yellow lives
I’m all on board - no lie.
But when you say that “ALL lives...

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Categories: hem and haw, political,
Form: Rhyme
For Life's Sake
I appreciate
The patriotic voices
It does my heart good

I truly believe
In what makes this country great
But I would say this:

The Constitution
And Bill of Rights created
To ensure...

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Categories: hem and haw, age, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Will It Or Won'T It
Will It or Won’t it?

I bought a car in ‘98
that was made in ’92.
It had seventy-seven thousand miles
but it still looked like new.

I showed off...

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Categories: hem and haw, travel, car, me, Grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Starry Fabric
All nature’s linked, the heavens with the earth,
in star formations, gas, galactic dust,
elusively in roles of death and birth
however random seems their wanderlust.
We peer in...

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Categories: hem and haw, earth, nature, poetry, space,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Small Acts of Kindness
When a pregnant woman gets on a bus,
  Be the first to give her your seat.

When you see an old lady on a busy...

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Categories: hem and haw, blessing, people, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The High School Crush
I know it was a long time ago
In a place now far away
But way back then I had a crush on you
That I remember still...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hem and haw, nostalgia, life, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Art Or Not?
I wonder what would the Father of
Modern Art have thought
Could he have seen the work consisting
Of a squiggle and a dot
Hanging in a big museum
Where...

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Categories: hem and haw, artart, art, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Nine Inch Heels
In strapless nine-inch stiletto heels
stylized and polished to a high gloss,
she absolutely loves how she feels.

In her sexy pose, she can strike awe
within the hearts...

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Categories: hem and haw, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Dithery Tizz
Tis all 
shilly-shally, dilly dally
wiffle waffle, willy wobble 
quiver and dither 
teeter and twitch,
which whatever, wherefore wobble
hem and haw, ho and hum
Tis all a dithery...

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Categories: hem and haw, angst, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Epitaph
Those who are ever-persistent
   take pride in being consistent
Never quitting what they start
   they're considered quite smart...

Others hem and haw, never...

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Categories: hem and haw, confusion, me,
Form: Couplet
The Dance
The world is filled with some fancy dancers
who'll come a prancing through your bedroom door
They'll do a pretty good job of makin’
you think they're spot...

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Categories: hem and haw, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Living the Dream
Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
living inside the dream

Like comfortable shoes,
a dog that won’t leave you,
treasures to esteem

Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
the rest to scratch and claw

To get...

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Categories: hem and haw, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Living the Dream
Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
living inside the dream

Like comfortable shoes,
a dog that won’t leave you,
treasures to esteem

Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
the rest to scratch and claw

To get...

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Categories: hem and haw, dream,
Form: Rhyme

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