Oh! A shilly-shally puzzle it is
an oracle's unfulfilled prophecy
a snarl of vagrant kind it is.
A riddle quite hazy to resolve.
May the impending morrows,
untangle this weird rune.
May the tale bearer blurt out
the augury of my future.
Can it be a mirth or gloom?
The all knowing superior deity
laughs at my uncanny anxiety.
Categories:
shally, fate,
Form: Free verse
Tis all
shilly-shally, dilly dally
wiffle waffle, willy wobble
quiver and dither
teeter and twitch,
which whatever, wherefore wobble
hem and haw, ho and hum
Tis all a dithery tizz
Categories:
shally, angst, life,
Form: Alliteration
M-ove heaven and earth,
E-arly August twentieth Sunday;
L-et the task get done,
L-et the odds fade
A-way.
S-how your determination,
E-liminate the shilly-shally;
C-ontinue your intention,
C-omplete the work zealously.
I-n spite of all obstacles,
O-utright action proves your worth;
N-ever fear to use every means,
A-s you move heaven and earth.
Categories:
shally, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
On Taddie Clyde the Barnsley broke,
In gumboot made of tin.
We cast the hour that gently stroke
And all who sail within.
Through faulty eyeballs thick with sleep
We watch the mackerel crow,
And gather up the blunderbuss
In rain or frozen snow.
Bad apple from an orchard grew,
Its Clinton hung like grapes
And dangled from our Derek’s thumb
To shally-up the stakes.
His dream lived as an aftertaste,
Its wistful hands reside,
Breaks silent on some other shore
And mourns the ebbless tide.
Categories:
shally, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Blinded and saving the love talk in the dark
In a sensuous connection came a spark
An active mind bee-lined for a kiss
Shilly-shally bemused as lass remarks
Lips to nose in a clear view face, turns dark.
Categories:
shally, boyfriend,
Form: Limerick
The once was a Pick-a-Dilly Lily,
well, she was all green, don't you see?
Though her friends ran about willy-nilly,
she sat on the ground 'neath a tree.
Dumpty-Down rolled on by shilly-shally,
never stopping to spark, or play,
even acorns would not dilly-dally,
it seems they had nothing to say.
Lily's head bowed in sadness, she whimpered,
"Am I jealous, that could not be!"
Then an ant walking by said "It's simpler!"
if you could get up, then you'd see.
Fair Lily prayed all the day long, "Oh, please."
she wanted to run, to move 'round!
She prayed to the birds, she prayed to the bees,
she prayed to the thunders loud sound.
The next morn Lily spied Roly-Poly,
a fat man who said, "come with me,"
Now, she sit in a vase holy-moley,
not under that fine acorn tree.
The moral right here is really quite clear,
green with envy, you should not be,
be happy where God plants you, my dear,
and enjoy the shade of oak tree.
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Categories:
shally, childhood, life,
Form: Rhyme
Move on you persnickety soul.
Normal doesn't really exist.
Take leave oh inadequate power.
For the doyen of your being shouts
halt! halt! halt!
This blanket does not warm you.
The bed it has been made.
But lying in it is your choice.
Fly away fly away fly away.
Find the inartificial being hidden somewhere.
Why remain incognito?
Is reality to much to bear?
Dicovery a stangest stranger
inapt of complement to one I knew
For a soul as wonderous can not covert.
This being is not you
Shilly shally all the day.
Tell me why I cannot pervade
Do I sear also?
Being part of your pain?
If that is th case I cannot remain.
But where will I go,
and where will you be,
when and if it's discovered,
that we are a we?
Shilly shally I say !
I must go away
I am the unreal one, I cannot stay
no longer shilly shallied way
Categories:
shally, passion, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
He
kept his
powder dry-
and missed the ebb
tide.
Categories:
shally, funny, life, parody,
Form: Epitaph