Hesitant Poems | Examples

Premium MemberYour Grace

All I want is you there for me;
Not hesitant, desperately!
So, make me a promise,
Today for tomorrows:
Let our hearts’ rose,
Ever be –
Categories: hesitant, crush, cute love, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Lady Hesitant

I hate that I hurt you.
How could I?
Tears were dropped with
Our future inside.

How could we know a certain forever would become an "It's enough"?
Enough pain, enough never-ending loops of what we should do or what’s best.
Fish biting tails.
My insecurities drove you insane.
Maybe insanity is what gave you patience and faith.

My ups and downs, you got them all.
Arms wide open, a warrior with no shield,
No protection for Sir "I’ll give you all of me."

I needed a step forward, to look at all those taken behind with a new light.
Yellow memories, warm sunlight.
The sound of laughter and two hearts melted into one.
Thank you for the tries, for seeing who I am.

Yes, Lady Hesitant ran away.
Bad or good decisions,
We’ll figure out soon.
Meanwhile,
Our past souls remain
In the realm of love,
The only thing that never ended,
The only place where it will live.
Categories: hesitant, courage, goodbye, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse


Premium Memberhesitant


    h ~e~s~i~t~a~n~t
       heart  introvert
        sober    shy   silent
                a-b-a-s-h-e-d
Categories: hesitant, love,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberHesitant

Love's flirty wink.
Healing heart, cautious. 
Give in to temptation?


Date written: 02/23/23
Categories: hesitant, desire, heart, love, poetry,
Form: Questionku

Premium MemberHesitant

A big conclusion by tomorrow I must hurry up and reach.
 It's about what I am to ‘do’ with my doggy “boy, Billy ‘Blue’.”
Half-wittingly I just keep vacillating between two notions.
 My mind is ‘churning’; my thoughts ‘turning’ like a tsunami.
 A bouncy cute but "crazy critter" is making me feel so daft.
'He' may ‘BE’ in control of ‘ME’, a “bungling fur baby’s” Mama.
Do I give him back this Monday? Oh, I need to decide by then.
No ‘napping' for all his ‘yapping,’ but “his eyes” are "so sweet!"

Sept. 25, 2022
for Joseph May's The A's Have It Poetry Contest
(I sure hope I did this right!)
Categories: hesitant, dog,
Form: Verse


Either Have Are Hesitant Or Hostile

vaccine they do have
others vaccine  hesitant
or vaccine  hostile
Categories: hesitant, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Blessing In the Balance

Slowly, treading softly
I must guard my hesitant heart 
Taking forward moves with caution
If any rebuilding is to start

I'm still wading wounded waters
Tidal waves of fear and doubt
Self-restraint and trust, a struggle 
The gash was deep, still trickling out 

Like a surfer prepares to meet the challenge 
I still have roughened edges to smooth
And sturdy boundaries to set in place
For risk of further pain still looms

The waves of healing will ebb and flow
And unpredictable these endeavours may be
So too, I must master the skill to 'ride the ripple'
And find the blessing in the balance indeed 

November 21, 2020
Categories: hesitant, blessing, courage, heart, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Cordial

It’s as familiar as the beat of your heart—  

	the echoing claps of heels on the floor,

a swift rapture when the doors open.

I almost feel like the clouds give way

	and I look the sun in her eye.

The euphoric feeling the ocean embodies

when night meets day.

The glow multiplies with each step,

as does the weight on my chest.

So many words and feelings 

compressed to a nod

and a casual smile in return.

Pictures of a different world

develop in my mind.

One in which I tell her 

how beautiful she is, but 

that’s not half of her weight in gold

and I’d like to see it all.

Then the treacherous ping

of the elevator and I realize—

it’s time to get off.
Categories: hesitant, earth, love, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse

Lost

Sometimes, i wonder what i'm doing here
Far away from my friends old and dear
Hesitant and reluctant to let go of my past
Which i can feel behind me fading fast. 

As i sit here, fully lost in thoughts
I can feel my heart turn into knots
When i think of the girl who i once was, 
Bubbling with joy and in a jolly waltz. 

Swallowed by the usual crowd, 
I struggle to make myself loud
But even amidst this buzzing lot
I find myself feel distant and distraught. 

But even in this grave situation, 
I see a glimmer of hope and satisfaction
Assuring me somewhere deep within
That i wont just yet give in.
Categories: hesitant, depression, grief, loneliness, lost,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHesitant Recoil

For this contest I’m asked to abide by the rules

and thus I sit and pen my thoughts obediently

but cannot check the renegade’s sweet rebellion


Limit cussing and cursing:
	
               however I am told that people who swear are profound not profane


No erotic poetry:
	
               but once Eros is tamed Thanatos prevails says a slippery Freudian


New poem:
	
               yet life is a cycle and true stories have no beginning


Date name and sponsor:
	
               A fig leaf instead to hide sensual muse
	
               Cursory token when flipping salvation
	
               Blame the prompter for devious words


Is imprecation blasphemous?

Is romance risqué is erogenous lewd?

Concession for praise where it belongs!


Conclusions:

I vow to wash my mouth with lubricant . . .

Copulation extrapolates couplets and rhymes . . .

I’m grateful for rulers because they help with the lines . . .



30th May 2019

Contest: What makes you flinch

Sponsor Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Categories: hesitant, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTheir Soul Feelings Were All Balled Up

Her soul feelings for him are all balled up inside
She cannot get out the words 
She does not run
Yet she can hide

Here he comes again
The man she thought she had fantasized
Yet here he is in the flesh, the man of her dreams
That man

His soul feelings for her are all twisted in a knot
He dares not speak for he might be rebuffed
He passes her gently 
Keeping his feelings inside

They pass each other every day for years
Neither speaking
For they both have such fears

When a "hello" is said at last, 
Eyes are rapidly averted away
Neither staying to talk
Neither staying to play

That hello which could have been the start
Was simply another barb 
To each of their hearts

One finally could not tolerate it 
And moved away
Without explanation 
They did not pass the next day.
Categories: hesitant, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHesitant Dreams

HESITANT DREAMS 

The impatient gates of 
Expectations,
Opened wide before the
Hesitant dreams,
And
Begged them, forward to rush, 
For to
Cross the threshold of 
The awaiting reality!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
    14 APRIL 2013
Categories: hesitant, dream, life,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberHesitant

Aye
and to sigh,
yet never goodbye...
our reluctance to say..
to close..to leave..
to part..to kiss
farewell;
weider-sehn ,perhaps
au-revoir..later..
see you..wave..then watch
'til
we turn away
and cannot see
no more...
Aye
and to sigh.
Categories: hesitant, loss
Form: Verse

A Hesitant Dawn

An unusual brand of happiness,
The release of lettting go.
A rush of realization,
Maybe finally you know.
A glimpse of something better,
Came shining through his eyes.
Accepting this fresh exhilaration,
Whilest praying against lies.
Distinguishing between sincerity
and that familiar self-destruction
Gets harder with every heart-break
and each eventual obstruction.
Categories: hesitant, faith, forgiveness, hope, introspection,
Form: Lyric

A Hesitant Friendship

As I wander this earth in total darkness
I wonder if your really here.
Theres a feeling of emptiness and fear
that guides me towards total loneliness.

I’ve allowed you to see my thoughts.
Yet I’m still hesitant to believe in you.
Are you really there for me completely?
Or have I allowed you in so inadvertently.
Oh help me, help me if I’ve been caught
With my heart left open so innocently,
For it was not my intent to be had so easily.

I do believe in the words you say
yet your sincerity at times frightens me.
I am hesitant to release myself completely.
Cause of the unknowings of your loyalty.
Hopefully there will be a day
That I can trust you and your authenticity.

I‘m left to decide if I want you in my life
Cause your search for my heart has struck a chord.
Yet my mind has to deal with my daily strife
and I still worried based on my recent accords.

Please allow me the time to understand you
for it is me that refuses total familiarity.
Not you my friend, not you without a clue
that deserves my honesty and harmony.
Will you permit me some time to accept you?
For this would allow us to live in perfect unity.
Categories: hesitant, friendship, me, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme

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