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Reluctance Poems

Ironies Within Ironies

The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines uncracked like vows never fulfilled, their wisdom sealed away like treasures buried by those sworn to unearth them. An academician

Categories: reluctance, education, irony,
Form: Haibun

Reluctant To Age

This can't be my age! 
I am still young at heart
The life of a party 
Though hitting the bed by ten
Gained a few kilos of weight
But can fit into my youthful jeans
Grew sluggish and shorter in height
Although ready for a morning jog
Have to wear glasses now
As the print size has become smaller
A few grays in

Categories: reluctance, age, angst, change, emotions,
Form: Free verse

I Don’t Wanna Go

(Verse 1)
The moon hangs low, whispers through the trees,
Your hand in mine, brings me to my knees.
The night is soft, but time moves fast,
I wish this moment could forever last.

(Chorus)
I don’t wanna go, don’t wanna say goodbye,
Let’s freeze this time, just you and I.
The world outside can wait, let it be slow,
I don’t wanna leave,

Categories: reluctance, emotions, love, night,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Letting Go Like November

As October's ripened leaves
Reluctantly flutter and fall to the ground
So do her fragments and feelings
Of hope and possibility 

Despite the shrouded, woolen veil 
Pulled over otherwise-tempted eyes
That sacred bond between exists
Amidst heartstrings' tug and twinge

Mother Nature heeds her perfect timing 
Signaling autumn's graceful end
Routine, perpetual and old-fashioned
Winter's wonderland begins

She too, must allow herself some space

Categories: reluctance, farewell, moving on, november,
Form: Free verse

Reluctance To Confidence

I was reluctant for a second
To risk my soul
by tossing down her contents
onto a page for the world to tear apart
expecting turkey vultures to kill and eat her
and me later

Real poets were kind, so I began to open a bit.
The blossoms of my poetry were soon sparkling
with confidence, and I was not flinching
when I thought

Categories: reluctance, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Reluctance

3/10/15

Shut up if you're a racist
I'll kick you with my Aasics
Then leave you inside the matrix
Because I'm so tired of seeing it on a daily basis
Especially after what happened to so many innocent natives
That were just trying to live and be creative
In a place that was more than spacious
Far too many were ungracious
Because they only

Categories: reluctance, dark, poetry, rap, word
Form: Rhyme

Reluctance and Relentless

Reluctance and Relentless

Some fear criticism and have a reluctance
To speak while others efforts are relentless;
Never stopping,
To go shopping,
And are always trying to make much sense.

Those in parade trying to make thoughts felt
and heard as they occurred and never absurd.

Jim Horn

Categories: reluctance, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

The Reluctance of the Young Runner

The Reluctance of the Young Runner

           by Edmund Siejka

He was a gawky teenager
On a high school track team
Intimidated by his coach
Who exercised almost total control
Over him.

He was examined
Tested
Questioned what he ate
How much he weighed
It became too much to bear
That he couldn’t tell anyone you
How lonely

Categories: reluctance, life,
Form: Narrative

Words of My Reluctance

Her book was disturbing,
  in an antiseptic kind of way

Cleansing words of their reluctance,
  periods gone—commas laid

         “Tribute To Joan Didion’s
       ‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem’”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)

Categories: reluctance, words,
Form: Rhyme

Reluctance Refinery

i represent an
invisible wall to
you
everytime you walk
by
i wish i was a
magician only for
you
everytime you walk
by
i would create the
most amazing art for
you
everytime you walk
by
i would totally
erase the maze of
confusion for you 
everytime you walk
by

the bridge of
rejection sends my
inner fear into
ascension
i want to fall off
intentionally when i
imagine the natural
scent of you
internally i do
jumping jacks
internally i do
squat thrusts
externally

Categories: reluctance, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse

Reluctance To Some Meal

Before the Deluge,
God had forbidden
His chosen people 
to eat animal flesh...
it was after the Big Flood
that He ordered Noah
and his family to eat it.
Why be reluctant to eat pork
on New Year's Day...
is it dirty and disgusting?
But isn't poultry or beef
any cleaner that pork is?
Let me have this tasty meal,
and ridicule those who won't:
hypocrites, I say

Categories: reluctance, anniversary, faith, food, holiday,
Form: Free verse

The Reins of Reluctance

The Reins of Reluctance

Stashed somewhere in the shadows
Of true love and pure romance
He hides his heart and hungers
For the strength to take a chance
He hopes hard for a reason
Tries to find the circumstance
So he can finally tell her
How she has him in a trance
But fear of her rejection
Always hinders his advance
So she only sees him

Categories: reluctance, lovefear,
Form: Rhyme