Hesitation Poems
Bog Body
by Ben Quinn
The bog-land never fails to intrigue
Preserved mammoth carcass.
The strangling mangrove roots
Lurk in the water like leviathan tentacles.
Though still, there’s an urge to
Dive and fossilise beneath the stream.
To give in to the marsh
......
Earnest Hesitation
by Prm S
What's wrong? She asked...
and then there was a long silence...
"nothing," he said...
between 20,000 thoughts he was fighting instead,
For he had been waiting for a reply...
for her to say "I love you too"...
but, there she stood unaware...
that her silence has opened up 20,000 insecurities of the man ahead...
......
Bog Body
by Ben Quinn
The bog-land never fails to intrigue
Preserved mammoth carcass.
The strangling mangrove roots
Lurk in the water like leviathan tentacles.
Though still, there’s an urge to
Dive and fossilise beneath the stream.
To give in to the marsh
......
Earnest Hesitation
by Prm S
What's wrong? She asked...
and then there was a long silence...
"nothing," he said...
between 20,000 thoughts he was fighting instead,
For he had been waiting for a reply...
for her to say "I love you too"...
but, there she stood unaware...
that her silence has opened up 20,000 insecurities of the man ahead...
......
