Long Hesitatingly Poems

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 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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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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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,...

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Every Friday he visits our home, promptly                            ...

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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 restaurant choice…the vegetarians in us hesitatingly said.
realizing while...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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I come from Cyrene, my name is Simon ---
Minding my own buisness,
I was forced into labor ---
The soldiers ordered me to assist a condemned man ---
I argued, but the protest fell upon deaf ears ---
So...

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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...

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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 zeroed in...

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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.
I transformed into a goblin,
Feared to look at...

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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 road untold but by the...

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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
Still, he tried very hard 

And...

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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 smelt that act of cabalism
At same time, was left...

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