Not Sweet William
Call me what you will
altho' my name's not 'Bill'
no don't even be so silly
as to think I am a 'Willy'
tho' you may say
“Here's what's his name'
to me it's all
one and the same
yet as I'm losing too much weight
have the need to feed
and don't dare be much thinner
I have one task to ask of you
please don't
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Categories:
hesitate, fun, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
If life were a book, I'd hesitate to touch it
If life were a book, I'd hesitate to touch it,
Standing on the edge of the shelf, fearing to discover,
That the story is written in tears and deep shadows,
I'd burn the pages with a match of extinguished memories.
But fire doesn't erase, it only turns to ash,
And the desire to read on is like a curse,
For this
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Categories:
hesitate, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
the spell of a pregnant pause
time passes, hands clasped,
afraid of what might happen,
clench tight on what's been.
eyes stare unblinking,
lest the sheer weight of mere thought,
reveals happenstance.
ears distracted dwell
on mantra seance murmurs
when will never end?
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Categories:
hesitate, destiny,
Form: Senryu
In the labyrinth of knowledge, my steps hesitate
In the labyrinth of knowledge, my steps hesitate,
Echoes of unspoken thoughts collide with the walls of the mind,
I am a wanderer lost among open books and prefabricated truths,
A pilgrim in search of sacred doubt.
I see around me spirits educated just enough to believe,
Not to question, souls caught in the thin net of certainty,
And I wonder,
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Categories:
hesitate, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Hesitate Then Integrate
have to hesitate
after we will integrate
so we can separate
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Categories:
hesitate, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Then
I hesitate to tell the word then particularly But I welcome the watch word now regularly.
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Categories:
hesitate, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Will Wait and Hesitate To Fine a New Mate
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 insane
if i told you once
are sad results from stunts
tennis player
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Categories:
hesitate, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
A Joyride
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 hesitating to dine-in
Because of the virus
I love a joyride
I
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Categories:
hesitate, baby, children, joy, parents,
Form: Free verse
Hesitate
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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Categories:
hesitate, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Hesitate To Be Real
Do not hesitate to write your story
For no one else can;
They cannot imagine it
or taste it, smell it or stomach it
It is yours alone to write about.
Do not hesitate to write your songs
Let them come prancing and dancing out of your soul
Belt them out, even if your voice is not the best.
Release them into the
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Categories:
hesitate, perspective, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Hesitate, Vaccinate
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 an ordinary length of string
Will we ever again not have
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Categories:
hesitate, care, change, confidence, health,
Form: Couplet
Black Pearl
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
Someone
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Categories:
hesitate, beauty, black african american,
Form: Blank verse
The Unlikable Social Life
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 torment.
Like a box of chocolates virtual celebrities.
We wind away hours
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Categories:
hesitate, anxiety, depression, hurt, irony,
Form: Free verse
We Hesitate
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 kiss at terminal entrances so
others see the intensity of our
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Categories:
hesitate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Decision Two
I sense your mood in recluse
Standing mute in the shadows.
A suspended position to choose
confused by the amazing views.
Frozen by the amorous advance
You try to resist the explicit move
But it took your guard into a trance.
And entwined our hearts in love.
A state inconceivable lay await
The invisible becomes discernable
instigate desire into s sudden shift
that would
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Categories:
hesitate, conflict, culture, desire, feelings,
Form: Burlesque
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