Short Ambivalence Poems

You were cool rocks but I was a hot wave of crescendos...

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Ambivalence,
razor thin patience; 
What are you waiting for?...

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Atmosphere of Spring
Aura of cold, powdered snow
Ambivalence still...

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Nature's ambivalence
A scene of great violence
Widely ranging wolves...

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Chrysanthemum smiles
The ambivalence of youth
Thinking of loved ones......

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Ambivalence
Apparently vague
Contradicting, contrasting, confusing
Embedded rhetorical ambiguity
Alluring, enigmatic puzzle
Irony


-Nov., 10 20,19...

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When autumn comes
is winter far away?
Every silver lining
has a cloud.
This is the best of all possible worlds.
So says the optimist,
so says the pessimist too....

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tenuous strands 
lithely tethering 
the soul to reality... 
strummed unevenly 
by life 

sharp notes 
compose  
a subtle dirge 
of mournful 
ambivalence 

14 May 2023...

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Ambivalence and anxiety
Motivate or moot?
Benefit or blockage?
Intensify internal indecision
Trajectory or tranquility?
Inquire into impassivity
Observe oasis
Noble nonchalance noteworthy...

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Search search search
Find the happy ending.

You don’t need to pretend.

There are lights dancing on the horizon
They shine with imbued ambivalence
I can touch nothing but my eyes reflect 
Shining orbs of transience

Floating.

Away.

12.25.2010...

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The Staring Contest

He stares
	In the childlike ambivalence
			Of all things,
And I stare,
	In the adult like return
			Of all things,
Sharing in the ambivalence of all things—
		This is, of course, but a whisper or 			
			secret,
			Of what youth brings....

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all at once
        a point of repose,
without end
        my journey 
unresolved-
ambivalence
blooms in isolation,
doubt
swirls and surges
back & forth
pushing and pulling...
frailty writ large
in longed for 
silence..
suddenly it abates..
...bliss at last...

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There is no fireplace
in your room
so I cannot come up;
still, the borders of your smile
eclipse my ambivalence,
warn of belatedness.

I journey home
and slip into sleep
fix my gaze into nightspace,
linger half-awake,
remember your whispers
when we were seventeen....

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a slight feeling of ambivalence,
the merest hint of cold indifference
crushes all the confidence
that's in a threadbare heart
take care, take time, show tenderness,
each simple smile's a rich indulgence
that costs but a moment of patience
and restores a threadbare heart...

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A reckless drunk driver t-boned her son's vehicle
killing him instantly, and her anger is understandable.
She's wondering "Should I forgive, or is it too soon?"




Threesome Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
Date written and submitted: 01/05/2020...

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Like gold of Havilah
   God is true and straight.
I can exhort Adonai
   For his tender heart.

Be it ambivalence
   Or the hour of drear
Wherever prayer is
   The Lord abides there.

Royalty and rivalry
   May erupt with hate
But He will take my leave
   Untouched by the flame....

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You find me 
Cold
Bitter
I am not yours to touch
To have
To hold
No softness to envelop you
No love to comfort you
Only emptiness
Ambivalence to greet you
Reach for me and I will prick you
Leave you 
Cold 
Lost
Hard around the heart
I am not yours to hold
You will not reach me...

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Lines Composed at a Mid-day Meal

To stare in ambivalence
At all things
Is to be in reverence 
Of all the small things
Like what a child brings
For, like a bird visiting upon my door
My sweet adoring child
Sings only of his joy for all.
After all, that is what love is for.
When children come to call....

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inside chambers hidden deep...
inside tissue, capillary and vein...
inside pumps the memories of love...

outside showing for all to see...
a negative of transparency...
projected on ambivalence...

inside, outside all gets mixed...
spilling over when it gets too thick...
can they see me inside out...

am I outside looking in......

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time for midnight bells
              close this year of covid hell 
                   just then silence fell
             ringers don’t show feel unwell 
    not sick ~ rope burns ~ hands have swelled 

       
         



By 
David Kavanagh 

         Apologies for the ambivalence 
         But I do hope you all stay well...

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In Response To Marjory Wentworth Poems

Have bent all rules to meet my needs;
Satisfy egotistical desires and greed's;
My goals meet;
Others defeat;
With ambivalence and hatred leads.

Jim Horn

Nuremburg poem was very interesting
along with the rest of your poems. They
are great poems because they encourage
me to write more poems....

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Ambivalence

Should I continue to live
Or should I just die
There is no joy or happiness
No love
Only feeling alone 
I don’t feel anything
No ambition or dreams
No motivation or desires
Only an empty and numb feeling
That goes on day after day
Stuck in my room
No light or darkness
Only a continuous dull grey cloud
That hangs over me...

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Help me spring i wish to abolish winters melancholy ways send 
your wipers of summer so that we may shake the foundation of 
mothers ambivalence cohered her with your scents and colorful 
flora for she seems to have become absent of mind and heart 
wallowing in her winter satin remind her the path of your warm 
pastures to seed summers germination...

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Smokeless Climax

Ambivalence – her bittersweet response
to the arcane quiescence of the tactile
invisibility – the quintessence of the
intercessor’s immolation of her dreams
upon the luscious flamboyance
of his passion.


10/26/2016


ten word challenge

ambivalent, arcane, bittersweet, luscious, intercessor
quiescent, flamboyant, immolation, tactile, quintessence...

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How long obstinate truth will surprise you? 
The moment like slippery things
Mixed emotions breath poison 
The blue sky in the plain...

Hanging decision uncertainly attacks
Snake of blood that crawls the heart. 
To put punctuation mark
In the uncaught wishes 
Dust gathers towards Happy-go-line.

Millions of voices alarm self-image.
What's the use of grey documents then?...

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