Short Indecision Poems

Short Indecision Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Indecision by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Indecision by length and keyword.


Sifting Sand

In his
indecision
he changed 
again
Only to 
become more
of what he had
— never been

(Dreamsleep: January, 2025)


Indecision

I think about you every day.
It hurts to leave.
It hurts to stay.
If you knew I'm not ok.
Maybe then I would choose to stay.

Premium Member Think Twice

Listen to poem:
Decision time is up,
a once-over review
prompts déjà vu,
a pause to think twice through.
For thinking once 
is merely enough.

Who Am I

Who am I? 
Am I a figment of color
On a background of noise?
Am I an indecision?
What an I? 
An idea lined by words?
Unknown.

Premium Member The Mightiest Allies

Laziness, procrastination, and indecision are failure's mightiest allies! 










© Demetrios Trifiatis
    07 December 2021
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Indecision

standing on the brink 
                          of eternity
I put back the blade
                          of indecision
to read the word again
Form:

Goodnight Graham Greene

Playing footsie
with the past
my toes became
entangled
With every fawned
and misplaced
step
— my indecision walked

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

Premium Member Preparing a Most Daring Dare

Preparing a most daring dare,
Of pinning a tail to a bear,
He just couldn’t choose
Which tail type to use,
And thought best to leave matters there.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Indecision

Indecision makes
Put on hold the decisions
That need to be made
Postergating the actions 
Delaying the life deserved













1-9-2016
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Indecision Entanglement

There's No System
Now There's A System
There's. NO System
NOW There's A System
There'z. NO System
NOW There'z A System...

-Gray Squirrel

11-03-2025

Premium Member While time waits for no one

Weighed the risks of indecision
Not choosing one way or the another
~ yet somehow getting nowhere fast


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Every Body Nose

Leonard Cohen
Was A Soothe-Sayer.
He Could Just
Smell It.

Unless I Took A
Wrong Quantum
Indecision To
This Sacred Heart.

-Gray Squirrel

10-20-2025

Premium Member Drowning In Indecision

no true destiny
just anywhere else
penned the sign
backpack will travel

cars honked
many smiles
some waved
I felt like I was drowning

perhaps in a sea of indecision?

Premium Member The Story Of My Life

When seasons glide along life's dream
to raise the kiln of compassion...
a healing smile, a touch agleam
can nourish hearts' indecision
my students... flamed with a vision!

Indecision

Live life to the full
shivering and dull

Time to make a change
feeling more deranged

Who am I at all
brace for a fall

Ask a silly question
one more decision

Make it
break it
© Nicola Noo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Anathema

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

On the Fence

on the 
fence 
always 
lived  
one foot in
one foot 
outside of 
the box 
inter-changeable
behaviors  
unstable motivational
changes
indecisive indecision
unclear clarity 
clear as mud
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Indecision

When Indecision Is with you, Let Patience, Out weigh the thought. The time you find, You can’t make up your mind, Then decision should Be made not! Florence McMillian (Flo)
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Zen mode

trapped in the open yet free within
our fickle attention oscillates
moment to moment 
we waver in indecision 
on where we choose to dwell
so invoking the power to bilocate
we opt to have the cake and eat it too

Lxii

Sometimes(now) I dislike
(hate) indecision
many fates //now//spill
horrified goldfish meeting
air/myopic eyes; live cataract-like
but still & now I unlike
that Inde-CISION cuts me 
through the ghost-bone

:: ~ ::

Premium Member My Mission

Would you but sing to me,
A song of high ambition.

My mind being elevated,
I climbed aboard a vision.

Flying high above mediocrity,
There's been no indecision.

A purpose driven life, 
Will always be my mission.

Premium Member Idling On Edge

in the sinews of my mind
there's not much place for logic
the heart rules with an iron fist
and passions stirred do simmer

i don't care much for chaos
but these are the cards i'm dealt



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Indecision

I'm flexible by indecision,
Nothing came to fruition,
I'm really quite a dither, 
In verse I do blither,
Still, I'll finish this book,
Hope readers take a look,
What to write next? I ask,
Ah, decisions, that's my task!

Premium Member Muted

She had been stalked
Dark thoughts draped in silence
Ranting
Gnawing
Suckling
At the breast of doubt
Whimpering
In the shadowed suffering
Of idled indecision
Held hostage
By the blank page

John G. Lawless
©6/23/2023

Grounded By Mother Earth

My bewilderment warily moves 

Near the spidery trails of indecision 

Over cold shadowed peaks of unanswered query 

Pulses surge well within the valley of a spirit lost 

Where roots ever forge toward the fiery heart of Mother Earth
© Judy Bonin  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

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