Best Hesitate Poems

I write
I think 
I feel
yet when it comes together
I hesitate
I rethink
I erase
then I go no further
I start
I think
I don't
then put it away for another day....

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twas’ the King himself who left
Heartbreak Hotel, to die face down in a pile of
his own 
vomit

for the reaper need not hesitate at the bathroom door

twas’ Lenny whose ha-ha’s did stop the night he 
filled his veins up to the brim, naked, alone &
40 years...

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What is this god of mine? 
That I’ve constructed to reveal, 
My brimming hopes and my real glances,
My bright intentions and all my farces, 
For him to befriend me in prances. 

This imaginary friend beckons me to procure, 
Stability for my everyday goings on, 
And...

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Will this pandemic ever be over and everything get back to normal
When high school kids can have a dance and the girls wear a formal
Will our small children grow up thinking a mask is a necessary thing
As common as a tissue, a cotton ball, or...

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How
beautiful...............an image
suddenly...............conceived
an instant..............thought
following...............a terminal
caesura.................pause
hesitation..............or dislocation
of attention...........written
read by.................a seeing eye
or said
aloud

Columnar style after Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet.
Turnbull  created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space 
Turnbull  called poems using his device ‘Spaces’,...

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Another fresh start how many chances
do I get. Time after time I slip up and 
fall, seemingly back to a crawl. 

Just never getting it right, wondering 
how many moments of forgiveness
have been set aside.

You're in my sights yet so are the stars.
I pray that...

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Never hesitate of doing good works
Love
Lord...

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had to hold down fort
reality did distort
would sell myself short

what we did was wait
then we had to hesitate
then find a new mate

war went on and on
only fools would shoot a fawn
soon war will be gone

had been a big pain
problems with lobsters in maine
did drive us...

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rushing forward into love, we hesitate
give pause and thought
then continue into each other’s embrace
it is a clean slate
nothing forbidden
yet we hesitate, holding hands in the 
cobblestone darkness
are we lovers or are we friends
is there a difference?
passion being overwhelming
we hesitate to set up lifestyle
we are mobile
and...

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What do you imagine when you look into the future?

Do you see light? Darkness?

Is it cold? Sunny maybe?

Do you see yourself?

Your success or failure?

Happiness or depression?

Did you reach your dreams?

Or did you fall?

Do you have a life at all?

Well stop thinking,

And just do.

Just make what...

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A joyride 
Like that of a high speed rail
We may take our partners
Our small children 
Or our old parents
For a joyride
Looking around
Scenery and nature
People and crowd
Shops and houses
Cars and buses
Highways and lanes
All are eye-catching
After a long time confining to 
Walls and beds
While people are still...

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I yowl and cry
   to go outside.

                      Maybe....

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Could the air we breathe be seeds of anxiety?
Winter flowers bloom in diamond breeze. 
Watery eyes searching for handout charity.
To form a habit with the cold and sneeze. 

Bittersweet social scene for this moment,
when we are forced to suspend activities. 
We couldn’t have predicted this...

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I think I want to go outside
But you can stand while I decide.

            No! Wait!...

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You do not hesitate, everyone 
           laughs and giggles at you
You do not hesitate, where
           you are rejected to stand
You do not hesitate, whenever
 ...

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