To Be Or Not To Be Poems - Poems about To Be Or Not To Be

Why I Abhor Ai Generated Poems Poetry Contest Sponsored by: JCB Brul 14/6/25 “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” Abraham Lincoln I assume that goes for women too, Abe! “An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.” Stephen Fry An artificial...

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after Poetry is a Recited Art, by Brian Strand i am a written not a talking work and were i there with you to speak this piece i’d do it as you wish no extra grease but the medium is wrote that’s it’s quirk Victor Borge his name i’ll give it’s mark makes humour of the topic we caprice my...

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When Mr Darcy brought my hand to his lips Drenched in sweet longing before the scale tips I, fraught with naivety and desire Held trust cast into the furnace of mire Dear friend, two offspring, a dog and a cat In our fineries we waltzed to 'Take That' Unbeknown to me, alas we were three Lipstick etched upon my fine filigree Teeth gnashing,...

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To be or not to be polite. I sit on the terrace  enjoying the spring sun the sea is calm I see in my binoculars the president  of Portugal taking  his daily swim Later in the day  he will fly  to Alentejo to  judge in a dog show My wife to read  the Facebook takes a dislike to  a red-haired woman says she is vulgar tells me to be polite She has a...

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They will never know, The pain that sits in these bones, My recovery is not as simple as it seems, Mentally i'm falling apart, I watch those the same age as me, Smiling, and enjoying one another, As I sit here locked in these four thin walls, I can’t leave, I tried but there is no escape, My midnights become my afternoons, As I try...

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In Sonnet III, Shakespeare writes as a young man looking in a mirror and wondering if he should impregnate a young woman for his posterity sake. It begins: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another. In my poem, I write as Shakespeare might in 2023. I chose...

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE VACCINATED Two years of pandemic and there is still no end in sight. Almost a year since vaccines became available and only sixty percent in the United States are fully vaccinated, where there is ample supply; but turned down by some. Some say, it’s a right, a human right to turn...

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Would I be a man if I had the chance, To grow hair in strange places and jump up and dance, Whenever a touchdown is made for my team, Or a goal scored in Hockey and jump up and scream, And scare the bejiggers out of my mate, Even though she is trying real hard to relate, And understand my excitement...

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I looked like plump Mrs. Potato Head before Then I started dancing around the room Then I danced around the large ballroom floor Discarding my broom, I began to bloom Then I started dancing around the room My youthful figure began a sweet bud Discarding my broom, I began to bloom No longer was I a rustic fat spud My youthful figure began...

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To be or not to be ??? That is the question !!! What will it be ??? What will our tomorrows look like ??? Will there be any tomorrows ???, for our children’s, children’s, children . Are we doomed to repeat ???, our culpability in the destruction !!!, of an era upon this little blue planet . Or will Mother Nature be...

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A window of opportunity, arose on planet earth, Reality is revealed, human intelligence gives birth, Our mind opens possibilities, but questions coincide, Trying to find answers, demise we might just avoid. We search on a grand scale, yet also the minute, Build machines to crunch numbers, do you compute, Our weapons are terrifying, emulating the sun, Split atoms by fission, then in...

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The quote is from William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet in Act 3, Scene 1. "To be or not to be, that is the question." But, what's the explanation of- to be? Hopes for more than only one suggestion; and so, I offer this which pleases me. To be is that one choice tween...

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To be or not to be, that is the question, offers a proposition, whereto, the answer is oversimplified because one chooses to make the effort to be, opposes one who will make no effort whatsoever not to be, therefore, the outcome does justify the means based on reason, even a bum, must be able to...

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*Image of Cosmic Levels And React by NASA. to be or not to be there would be no fish if there be no ocean there would be no birds if there be no sky and there be no me if there be no you *HMS checked 2020 January 16...

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If Panpsychism were true —what could ever be false (Dreamsleep: January, 2020)...

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