Best Hem And Haw Poems

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 matter”
you’ve lost me, and here’s why:

I seriously doubt that you
agree that every life
is as important as the next
Oh really, Barney...

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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 I lose.
The very first word that I see
Is likely what I'll choose.

Of course, I should peruse the board
And calculate the...

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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 freedom

Against tyranny
And to stop invaders from
Attacking our homes

We have the right to
Should pack a gun...

Having the right to
Be free goes...

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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 space with telescopic sight
that oft may miss the tracery that’s there
as when our past assumptions take to flight
in view of...

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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 my little car
to most everyone I saw.
My grandson changed the lettering.
Instead of Grand Am it reads Grandma.

It purred just like...

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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 corner,
  Help her across the street.

When someone's carrying a stack of books,
  Open the door for him.

When your...

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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 today

I never acted on it then
And am in no position to do so now
But thought I would just let you...

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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 of unwary men,
who oft get tongue-tied and hem and haw.

Granted; nine-inch heels may seem extreme
but this seductive siren on stilts,
comes...

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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 the viewers hem and haw
And try to tell each other of
Its meaning wild and raw.

His "Still life With An Open...

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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 tizz...

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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 on what you're lookin’ for

But they'll hem and haw and skirt the edges
never quite proving what they claim to be
They’ll...

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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 sure
   if they should move on or stay put
Yet whenever they choose to move on
   they...

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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 to a place
they’ll never find
—condemned to hem and haw

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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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 to a place
they’ll never find
—condemned to hem and haw

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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