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Hesitatingly Poems - Poems about Hesitatingly

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...
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Categories: hesitatingly, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDAMIEN'S 27

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For our grandson Damien’s 27th birthday..
We innocently told him, “Pick the place…any place you want to eat.”
He chose The Brisket Shoppe…where their specialty is meat.

What a wonderful restau...
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Categories: hesitatingly, birthday, grandson,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPast lives

...Emma, it was 2020. You get on the Watford train, platform one to four
I don't even know when it was, the track was rapidly receding, gone
The desire to have you be known and close to you in the car...
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Categories: hesitatingly, love,
Form: Free verse

The Report

...The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light,
Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night.
It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen,
and then blasts into the iris of my eye, half...
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Categories: hesitatingly, work,
Form: Free verse

The New Beggar

...Every Friday he visits our home, promptly                               He presses the calling bell and stands calmly.                            I open the door and looks him keenly                 ...
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Categories: hesitatingly, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Bard

...Walked through the woods today, I heard the most miraculous melody. So I ventured towards the direction of this beautiful music. 
As I approached I saw a bard playing a lute as if angels were singin...
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Categories: hesitatingly, character, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Unfortunate Appointments At Imperfectly Perfect Times

...water flowing
i move not
unfortunate that i will have to leave quickly
i think about all that are no longer here
the water's sound eases my mind like it knows
i move not
unfortunate that life a...
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Categories: hesitatingly, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Wary Cat and the Hungry Dog

...The cat eyed the dog, warily
   The dog licked his lips, hungrily
The cat backed away, tremulously
   The dog edged forward, intimidatingly

The cat retreated faster, alarmedly
   The dog zeroe...
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Categories: hesitatingly, anxiety, cat, dog, love,
Form: Monorhyme

Ghost of Christmas 1

...Am beautifully hurt
Though, gracefully taught 

You still think am weak
While hesitatingly given a week

To plunge in his favourite hands
That combusted my convex bone cheeks 

Perhaps, i sm...
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Categories: hesitatingly, abuse, art, fear,
Form: Couplet

The Flower That Blooms

...In the sunny September morning
He went to find the most beautiful roses
For the girl, he loved the most.

He didn't realize that it was fall
Getting beautiful flowers wasn't possible at all
Sti...
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Categories: hesitatingly, autumn, boyfriend, flower, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse

Love Doesn'T Run

...Love doesn't run.
Love stumbles through like the drunk old man in the street.
Love is slow like the crippled old lady who tries so hard to live own her own.

The one thing love does not know is h...
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Categories: hesitatingly, absence, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Self Identity

...I can’t be a human being
All efforts went fruitless.
‘Being Human’ is now
A day dream !

I turned into a stormy wind – a tempest
Destroyed nature, devasted biodiversity
Killed animals brutally...
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Categories: hesitatingly, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Creepy Girl

...she is a blatant caricature in loud technicolor
her presence shouts sexual innuendo  
alluring with dark undertones
her past shadows her every word
like clouds passing over a weak sun
she is the...
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Categories: hesitatingly, angst, crazy, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLost In Historys Places Laughter Lifes Withering Soul

...Lost in history’s places

That was then, when, and now is now.
The point now, need not – somehow –
come from way back when, for then,
for if it does ?, there is no point, the point
becomes lost...
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Categories: hesitatingly, daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Lest You Yourself Be Judged

...LEST    YOU   YOURSELF   BE   JUDGED

If my game is to  be judged, let it be in  the way
I  hesitatingly judge other people’s play. 
Perhaps  the ultimate judgement of my game
Will  be merely a ...
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Categories: hesitatingly, philosophyteacher, teacher,
Form: Couplet

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