In lieu of flowers
as constant as doubt
the necessity of an everyday curse
though the devil must have patience
tomorrow is for ash and forgetting
and being a poet
he cannot stay an hour
Poems on the topic: doubt
Poems on the topic “doubt” on Poets.by.
Sweet nothing
this morning is a clear ruin
a mortal barb
words make anything
to raise disquiet
but the word devil
that word full of world
is a nothing as sweet
as my first little doubt
Complementarity
ice and water exchange days
like a parliament of one
doubt will provide a new home
for that which I believe is true
Professional skeptic
I take great pleasure in doubt
never prince was happier than I
who bled out of my own temple
an ox making my home by the sea
Owls and rabbits
owls of six o’clock doubt
carry me home
whither come my rabbits
good fire good charcoal good night
Conceivable
I went to my father’s wedding
as a long white winter, a doubt,
a fruitless precaution.
Life did not stop.
The cost of free thought
In exchange for an absolute,
we pay interest on doubt.
I ink a letter to the thief
that stole a laugh.
Against certainty
An ill fit for the church
of mathematics am I.
Show me what is lost by doubt
or a long-desired night.
Hope and Doubt
I dine with hope and doubt
in a coat of velvet.
Half moon, half dark,
we sing bass and treble.
Pepys Noir
Rain.
I got up early.
I was deputy to trouble;
I could not talk.
A place other
than the void tonight?
I go out without
any qualification.
Doubt will be
the end of me.
Quest
I am a madman
at war with my doubts
the door open
I knock three or four times
and talk alone at church
like a letter to a match
Thought crime
who first mortally wounded thought
who hurt words
but not the body
who had a mind to turn
love to doubt
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