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Diffidence Poems - Poems about Diffidence

Questions that Puzzle The Mind
...If mothers didn't bear children, we wouldn't hear their screams while they're laughing aloud and are having lots of fun; love them and be always blessed, sparkle enthusiasm and dreams! If ......

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Categories: diffidence, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, bird,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Would You Love Me
...I forgot who I was, almost lost myself in a mirage of diffidence, for a lingering stretch of time! From the emotional age of twenty-one.... I switched to one role from another - diverse roles,......

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Categories: diffidence, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Open Hearted Confessions
...Honestly, I feel I am a grown-up child I express my feelings intense or mild As and when they take birth, never concealing Not allowing them to settle, before revealing Even minor mishaps ......

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Categories: diffidence, character, desire, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Two Women
...Their intimacy is gloved, moments dovetail in a tea-room. I color-in implied gestures, listen to the ambience of undertones. They enter a confessional space lips linger over shared visions, ......

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Categories: diffidence, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Separating Me Unto You
...November 11 Scripture Meditations Based on Galatians 1-2 Key Verse – Galatians 1:15 … It pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace. MY GOD, THAN......

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Categories: diffidence, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



We Don'T Go Out Anymore
...Dancing In the cut of the sun We don't go out anymore Honey coated air Swirling silence Beckoning an empty mind Lie still always fleeting Like a memory Roaming through echos Of an ode to hol......

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Categories: diffidence, desire, for him, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun Smiles
...Guiles Gone miles Morning sun Diffidence shun Golden crown well-spun Orbit does run Like war won In styles Smiles 18 August 2022......

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Categories: diffidence, nature, smile, sun,
Form: Ninette
The Not Quite Sonnet of Not Quite Success
...The Not Quite Sonnet of Not Quite Success Play by the rules, or at least the principles Then you’ll make a difference Shake off the praise with diffidence And yet it ends of ostensible Maybe......

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Categories: diffidence, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Dance of Doubt
...As I write my brain whispers wicked words of doubt soft as a newborn’s sleepy sigh the babbling of a bubbling brook before it suddenly begins to shout screeching like the ear piercing feedbac......

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Categories: diffidence, anxiety, confidence, dance, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Our Life of Cheap Pretence
...Our Life of Cheap pretense We could watch through a lens For its failures to yield us a half pence Or deliver crisp commonsense; One’s decided airs of pretense A mere sitting on the fence, ......

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Categories: diffidence, character, conflict, fear, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Transcendence Divine
...Wondrously divine in its transcendence God’s love* affirms kindness of providence Radiating tender mercy’s resplendence Defying any counter evidence…. My heart does claim with grateful co......

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Categories: diffidence, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Shoulder
...They can be a lot heavy: The Shoulder; By the dying felt like boulders; And one keeps groaning: The Carrier, As their weight become scarier! They are the parts we hold high And passers-by ......

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Categories: diffidence, body, courage, growth, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finally Saved Part 3 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
...This is the THIRD AND FINAL PART of the poem - translated from Rabindranath Tagore's "NISKRITI". Leaving all embarrassment and diffidence, the daughter spoke without hesitation, to the fat......

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Categories: diffidence, father daughter, marriage, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remember the Day
...Remember the day Apron strings loosed,untied as maternal voices faltered and cried Remember the day When a soprano voice lost its elan and a boy became a man Remember the day Peer pressure wou......

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Categories: diffidence, family,
Form: Kyrielle
They're Cute At This Age
...subtitled: The Bolder Boys (rivals of The Golden Girls) written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones Two graying seniors with appalling chimera bantering back and forth - mental ......

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Categories: diffidence, 11th grade, old, retirement,
Form: Quatrain

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