Dawdles Poems

Premium MemberMetamorphosis

...Maybe it starts in this dimly lit room,
everything seems crystal clear alone.
Take in that serenity and trust it,
any time you are unsure? Seek.. ‘Voila!’
Make that moment start to scream,
open ...
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Categories: dawdles, courage, emotions, introspection,
Form: Acrostic

Seyda Mint Sheikh, A Mother Plus

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In the garden of memories, a bloom so divine. 
A mother's love, an eternal lifeline.
Reading the holy book, a melody that dawdles on. 
She was holy and a saint like persona. 

Through her Guid...
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Categories: dawdles, mother,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberNight Owl

...grabs a hat from the hatstand 
fraught, he warps the midday sun
no apricating mellow touch
in haste, too early a venture
while camouflaged conspirators
beckon to no end, lest he dawdles 
throug...
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Categories: dawdles, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRestorative Splendor

...Written: September 11, 2023
______________________________________________________________

Don't fret, dear; let's wend off the strife,
Candor your winsome grace—embrace life.
With ...
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Categories: dawdles, analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

My Muse

...An exuberant falcon she is, isn’t she? 
Being the aviator of my flight of thoughts.  
Cares less she to heed, whenever in adoration, I 
Do call her for a chat - she is ...
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Categories: dawdles, imagination, inspiration, muse,
Form: Abecedarian


Premium MemberValentine From Valley Forge

...Schuylkill Valley Encampment, February, 1778

Dearest Beloved,

This letter, penned with nature still enwrapped in winter’s shawl,
Might reach your hands by April, should it reach your hands at ...
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Categories: dawdles, allegory, history, romantic,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberBells

...BELLS

I.

Bells has a tingling ring to it,
a jingledy-jangle silver tone.
The tympanic waltz, close knit —
angelic chorus of Christ’s throne.

And Winter parades its magic ...
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Categories: dawdles, beautiful, christmas, dark, sound,
Form: Rhyme

The Opera of Dusk

...THE OPERA OF DUSK 


Theatre of life dawdles on
Beyond that old and crumbling wall,
Where birds and insects come on stage
Dusk relaying a curtain call.

The city of stones pensive dwells
Lau...
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Categories: dawdles, nature,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberThe Kiss

...It’s such a simple gesture that we show
to family and friends whene’er we meet;
a simple way to always let them know
we truly care to make this bond complete.

A kiss can come in oh so many ...
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Categories: dawdles, emotions, for her, kiss,
Form: Sonnet

Cascading Reverie

...reverie dawdles
                                           cascading down fount of life
                                irrigate Spring's grace



March 6, 2018...
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Categories: dawdles, nature, water,
Form: Haiku

Weebles Wobble

...Weebles wobble
   but they do fall down.

Once without windup whimsy weebles wobble writhing in wistful wiggly wattles,
they bubble, bobble, boggle, bottle and boondoggle coddles and dawdles;
a ...
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Categories: dawdles, children, word play,
Form: Blitz

Premium MemberAutumn Dawdles

...Mosaics of gold and crimson;
follow the last migrating duck.
And barren soil littered with death;
stripped of its grandeur, turns to muck.

Autumn dawdles well past its end;
no longer p...
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Categories: dawdles, autumn, beautiful, color, hyperbole,
Form: Quatrain

Wallflower

...On the edge she sits, a frail nonentity;
neither bloom nor spirit, nor secure identity,
as forlorn and shy she trembles, a man
asks her to dance, she must decline.

Stuck in a bubble, just missi...
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Categories: dawdles, writing,
Form: Quatrain

Wallflower

...On the edge she sits, a frail nonentity;
neither bloom nor spirit, nor secure identity,
as forlorn and shy she trembles, a man
asks her to dance, she must decline.

Stuck in a bubble, just missi...
...
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Categories: dawdles, solitude,
Form: Quatrain

Wallflower Repost

...On the edge she sits, a frail nonentity;
neither bloom nor spirit, nor secure identity,
as forlorn and shy she trembles, a man
asks her to dance, she must decline.

Stuck in a bubble, just missi...
...
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Categories: dawdles, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain

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