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Vacillates Poems - Poems about Vacillates

Premium MemberHumanity

...Laws of Physics and Humanity #1 First Law (Inertia) Sponsor Dilly Dally 1-14-25 Objects at rest stay at res unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Categories: vacillates, humanity, life, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTempestuous Storm

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Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and sense
As he vacillates betwee...
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Categories: vacillates, anger, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Oh This Frisson, Thrill of Lies

...Hair gets grey, withers he but seldom wise 
To know why nothing thrills him more than lies, 
Why man’s pen portrays obscure truths in grey, 
Why his mind’s chisel carves out misty clout 
So grote...
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Categories: vacillates, truth,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberAroma of Love

...(it's like ) 

The sweet and scented waft of a delicate flower waltzing in thin air or like
Helium balloons at the fair. Often we equate it to cotton candy, or 
Electricity. ...
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Categories: vacillates, appreciation, love,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberTell It Like It Is

...The quick sands of fate cave in
The sucking darkness captures
The weed of agony marsh slithers 
Entangled hope of escape smothered 
Hazard paves the pathway of life
For the destiny to wander uns...
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Categories: vacillates, analogy, destiny, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDesires

...DESIRES

           My dormant desire hidden inert indolent
                 wobbles, vacillates.
               remaining repressed in rue.
              not surpassing hesitance.

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Categories: vacillates, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRocking Chair

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anxiety
a rocking chair
that vacillates
and goes nowhere
it’s not just you
it’s more than that
for it creates
a nervous cat
so cast your cares
and hit the couch
‘cuz broken tails
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Categories: vacillates, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShades of Blue and Gray

...Disappointment comes in shades of blue and gray
Delivered with a large dose of dashing hope,
My mind vacillates between sadness and dismay.

‘Tis time to put on a happy face for a bet...
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Categories: vacillates, blue, depression, feelings, perspective,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberThe Shape of Water

...Swoosh, she vacillates in malleable form
as ocean waves or garden hose splashes,
encapsulating life's nautical swarm
and keeping plants fresh with misty dashes.

In a cup, her shape is held gent...
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Categories: vacillates, destiny, environment, fun, life,
Form: Rhyme

Godwink

...The student vacillates,
Succumb to study
Or go to the dance?
With a mind flip of the coin
And help from a higher power,
He is on his way.	

Outside the dance
On that clear, cool Spring evenin...
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Categories: vacillates, fate, love,
Form: Free verse

Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix

...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
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Categories: vacillates, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet

Short Stuff: Epigrams

...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael R...
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Categories: vacillates, body, clothes, death, eulogy,
Form: Epigram

Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play

...Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly m...
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Categories: vacillates, aubade, beauty, dog, for
Form: Free verse

Pablo Neruda Translations

...I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and des...
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Categories: vacillates, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOur Love

...OUR LOVE  
    
        Silver Moon in charcoal night 
       Dreamy heart to dance delight.

       I move on your move.
      So clear, not to prove.               
       
     You are my ...
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Categories: vacillates, appreciation, love,
Form: Couplet

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