Long Diffidence Poems

The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...

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Paying The Bill
 
You may come to this some day
It may issue from nowhere
A moment un-strident
A loose flagging half remembrance
Something which neither carries
Nor contains
But a fickle shadow 
Thin and as meaningless with an empty whimper
Not...

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I studied him, just as he studied me
I in disgust, confusion, and he in angry fantasy
His eyes, black, and yet still blackening
He embraced me with a terrible fit in his mind
Those piercing eyes, saturated in...

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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, divergent responsibilities, 
But...

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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 of mine or others upset...

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© Ben Burton 8/16/2015

As my time on this earth dwindles
Toward those final sips of coffee
After appetizer, entree
And dessert have been devoured
I grieve all those wasted moments
When I only saw forever
Endless time to make it happen
Led...

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Contagion ceremoniously weaves its harvest into a fabric of un-social inclusion
Haunted by lack of humility and lost serenity it serenades through the masses
In God We Trust but who listened to Nietzsche who proclaimed that she...

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"Now is the time of our comfort and plenty
These are the days we've been working for
Nothing can touch us and nothing can harm us
And nothing goes wrong anymore....

Take it back, don't let it die
Or rage...

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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, THANK YOU FOR SEPARATING ME...

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I had a dream yestreen:
There was darkness' and light's, And I stood between;
To the side of light I looked with a sigh,
There men spent ineffable rights, by and by.

There love was a sea, and virtue...

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Come Father, become human and kind...
sit at my  blessed and abundant table,
and have a dialogue with me!
Many questions assumed for myself:
like uncotrollable rivers flooding their banks...
pitifully susceptible to oblivion;
a disaster so real and not...

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I watched left behind on Channel 5 last night,
As I thought that the Christians had recently got it right, 
About just what exactly it is that they believe, 
That the rapture and tribulation out they...

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The Baker peered in my direction
And slyly beckoned me this day.
With no current held objections...
I moved to hear what he might say.

He told a tale both rough and course
That seemed improbable at best.
I quizzed him...

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Standing at the precipice of hope,
these retinal denials
gazed into the misty, crystal waterfall

I had no secure peer of rappelling rope
tied to a waste modesty lifestyle
Unsure of the plunge into the pulsing roar of the call...

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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 father, 
"We hear you are going to get...

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Scared to walk on the flagstones that your love would lay in my journey
My journey to freedom
My journey to diffidence  
My journey to destiny.
I returned back flake of your sole that was with me...

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Have they ever asked themselves
what's the purpose of this life;
and why we are born of a mother
who leads us to a quiter shore?
These are the thoughts of an innocent mind...
questioning the diffidence of the eartly...

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Beyond the plain, 
beyond the distant hills
the coast is calling, 
even in its silent diffidence
proclaiming richness to horizon's crust,
that here is where the world begins—
here is where a man may throw
his soul into the wind,...

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SMOKE BLOWN
By: Ryechine Money 
Rewritten by: Poetic- Life 
July 12, 2021

Her watery word were larded with lies, The cold and calculated diffidence in her persona was to fool only fools, but never the wise, we’ve...

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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 confidence. 

Marked by compassionate condescendence
Christ’s love is offered with heaven’s credence
Midst His sacrifice against...

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With great enthusiasm and a zest for what you do
You make us want to pass the test of being just like you
The kindly words that we beseech are more than just a trial
For they provide...

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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 meandering. 
Be it mirage...

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Wilderness and wickedness our lives stalk
When one circumstance slips from our wheels
Other unexpected glitches talk
Defeat, nagging at our heels 

In an imminent sense of fear
When blues in marriage
Spectres of a tear
Dysfunction assails the carriage

Our life...

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MY SINGING STAR

Annual days in our University existed before too, only in annals,
Until the day, she on the ramp thrilled our hearts that came to the ears;
We had ‘Abbey Road on the River’; we lived...

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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,
oracles only they can read.

Lipstick on China cups,
the twirled edge of a napkin,
the unclasped...

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