Short Tentative Poems

a sensitive nod of poetic peers
dispels any tentative fears...

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Bees and hungry birds
The winter's tentative touch
Frenetic coda...

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two silhouettes visible
tentative strokes all over
tantalizing mood created...

pure vivacity   












*Not a contest entry*...

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Give me back
What you took
Give me peace
Give me breath
Give me what your eyes always
To promise
That tentative sweet tarp of your love
Or take the bone
And the flesh
Too...

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half-shy
  tentative
yet
   undaunted
evolving
from
   a blur
too
brief
   but
       succinct:
a
break
from the 
past
into
  the
    steps
       of
         today...

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Tentative sunlight
Playing with turning wheelspokes 
Fast hands spur on rims  
Early morning race with dog
Joyful barks mix with laughter 

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February 1, 2017...

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Enlightened path
Visual acuity
Whispered guidance
Faltering steps
Doubt
Serene Breeze
Second chance
Tentative touch
Confident kiss
Bold stride
Acceptance, Acknowledgement, Advance
Perfection
One...

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She gave you a chance 
But, you threw it away 
Very tentative in your actions 
You have led her astray 
Why must she continue? 
You were never there 
Living in a state of uncertainty 
You did not make your words clear...

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this place no longer explodes
in the usual disarray
of being new,

and I've lost the acute freshness,
the crystal vitality
of strangers' eyes;

now tentative, indefinite
the past has slowly become,
surely, it seems....

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To you I profess care,
True or untrue rests in you fair,
What runs inside you I know not rare?
But surely did not come in a moment thread-bare.
At and all times like this,
To allay all shackles,
That, with hope, does not express by pyre....

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tempting tender tents 
pitched by the great gardener ~
tentative today

will the nights not fall?
will be any snow at all?
winter wind seasons

when fading they say
keep all prejudices away ~
truth is seldom said


23 October 2021...

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Like the rainbow,
Life shows glimpses;
Brightness,
Bountifulness;
All, at the end,
Tentative and temporariness...
Yet, I do not cease,
Enjoying each ray;
This, perhaps, is the reason why,
Existence goes a long way...! 


25 May 2022...

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Diffident,tentative unsure
As nothing stays the same;
Restless,flowing with the tide,
As nothing stays the same;
Evolving and revolving
As nothing stays the same;
Endless,everlasting age
Does nothing stay the same?

Metanoia says th sage...

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Constant reminders
Pin-prick my heart
Till I bleed out
Melt down quietly
Alone
No one notices
Try to regain calm
A tentative hold
Easily broken
Disquiet
No one to bleed the toxin
Clean the wound
Allow for healing
Instead it silently
Festers...

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I'm really just a typical girl
With a tentative plan for life
And a longing for love
And an undying curiosity
I just want this to be perfect
Please, just no snags this time
No runs in my hose
Or scuffs on my heels
Just crisp, clean lines
That never wrinkle...

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Her brushes and pigments,
the canvas stretched and primed;
a tentative first stroke –
what she really needs is

focus of the keen eye.
Focus of the keen eye

is fox, slipping from edge
to shadow, gone behind
the screen. Look inside for
that wildness just half-seen....

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Barbara Gorelick



There is nothing quite like a first kiss
Tentative and sweet ,quite like spring
Emotions first blossoming
Sweet pink on cherry trees
Soon sun will burn hot
And kisses change
Remember
Your first
Kiss

For the "Nonet Me A Spring Kiss" contest...

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Perhaps is such a tentative word
A voice, perhaps, one never heard,
The kiss that might have begun
A song now forgotten, once sung
The dream once borne in strife,
Not realized in the failures of life
Perhaps, with best wishes sown,
Bidding farewell never truly known.

written November 27, 2021...

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A simple rhyme for a very dark time
  The road back, sure, an arduous climb
Tentative steps, cautious probes
  Sporting still protective wardrobes

Yet before long, like forests scorched
  Creature habitats by fire torched
Soon enough we'll be scampering gaily
  Reveling in routines familiar daily...

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The sun reluctant to leave the 
stage
Splashed pink red paint across 
the page
Of the final act of a lovely day 
Then it curtsied and went on 
its way. 

A tentative rising harvest moon
Slips slowly into a darkening 
room
A soft yellow carpet of 
transparent light
The day gives way to another 
night...

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The sun reluctant to leave the 
stage
Splashed pink red paint across 
the page
Of the final act of a lovely day 
Then it curtsied and went on 
its way. 

A tentative rising harvest moon
Slips slowly into a darkening 
room
A soft yellow carpet of 
transparent light
The day gives way to another 
night...

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Daubs
__________________________________a nd
_____________________dabs

of                                                                    words
Like                                                  an

artist                                                      first

tentative                      strokes...

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Oracle please tell
me, (free of charge) about the
future that will be.

Show me the bright secrets
of love - be a mystic guide
for my bored heart’s relief.

What kisses may be played
on sweet, future nights with no
tentative whispers please.

Help me conquer the
confusing compresence of
desire and unease....

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Tomorrows sunshine a fingertip away;
A tentative soul willing to play;
A soul laid bare, fully exposed;
Formerly withdrawn, but now unclothed;
Through night to dawn;
Through black to white;
Through pain to pleasure; 
Through death to life;
Merged and committed;
For your love.




Nick Evans
07 November 2015...

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Doubts flood my mind - smarter than I seem
Reading between the lines of your intentional schemes
Calculating your plots of disreputable deceits
And probing methods of exploiting me

Amiss estimation of my competence
To comprehend and observe your malevolence
Distressed and tentative with your presence
Your bogus interests I never fail to sense....

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