Timidity and Temerity
Timidity and Temerity met one day
in forest glen beneath sky reach falls.
In this pleasant setting an epic began
the battle of wills, contested here.
Temerity had ambitious plans
and Timidity had awkwardness,
yet somehow they sat on blanket laid
and talked of love and other things.
And Mother sensing something here
made her water sing her tunes
while sending forest scents wafting
and bubble clouds drifting.
Well by now you guessed the ending
or at least you think you did…
For Timidity and Temerity did join that day
and their name became… Temperance!
So laugh you may or even turn away
but hopefully see the moral here
for opposites do have a middle
and conclusions should evolve.
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
quote by Thomas Hardy
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Temerity is not always successful.
quote by Titus Livius
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
quote by Victor Hugo
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
quote by Victor Hugo
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
quote by Munshi Premchand
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The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
quote by Kary Mullis
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
quote by Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
For Posterity
He fell backwards into quick drying cement.
It was something that he hadn’t meant
to do. For his trousers started setting fast,
and ended up looking like a plaster cast.
A stonemason was found to chip away
at this solid mass of clayey grey.
His legs were feeling not quite his own.
He felt like a statue carved from stone.
Finally his limbs were at last released.
His trousers, surprisingly, were not creased.
Two buttock shapes were in concrete created
Something that made him feel very deflated.
For nobody else with any temerity. could say,
Their posterior was preserved for posterity, this way.
poem by Ernestine Northover
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In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Infrasounds, Abuse Abounds...
Infrasounds
Abuse Abounds
(But God Will Silence You)
The Tragedy
And Treachery
(God Will Turn On You)
The Silent Streams
Of Sonar Screams
(God Will Shout Back At You)
Secret Aggression
Of Your Super-Weapon
(But God Will Soon Stop You)
The Temerity
Of Your Travesty
(God Will Punish You)
Justice Will Be
Just Like The Red Sea
(God’s Oath Promises You)
You’ll Reap What You Sow
Just Like Jericho
(When God’s Curse Falls On You)
In Noah’s Flood Drama
and Sodom & Gomorrah
(God’s Word Has Warned You)
Then You Will Fear
All That You Hear
(When God Himself Answers You)
Because Infrasounds
Abuse Abounds
(Until God Silences You)
Written & ©: 7/31/10
By: The MoonBee
poem by MoonBee Canady
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
quote by Sydney Smith
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The magic forest
At the Bois de Boulogne lies magic
Magic that cannot be evitable
Magic that lures people into the evergreen forest
In the forest, soft earth is like a comfy bed
Meadows of grass are green sheets for the bed
If you happen to lie down on the bed
The sunlight hugs your body gently like a mother
Your eyes are heavy weights, unable to keep your eyes open
You fall into the sweetest dream as time goes by…
Night walked into the forest as day walked out of the forest
The pale moon is like a glass eye of a witch staring at you
The dark magic falls into the forest
Lusty monsters fill the magic forest
And the magic forest falls asleep…
Each life converges to some centre
Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture,
But then,
Eternity enables the endeavoring
Again.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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I Can't Wait For You...
waiting makes me tense
i am restless and i do not have the temerity to
be patient,
when i wait all things seem to run away from me
and it is sickening to feel that i am the only one left out
at the station
i hate the silence of the pavement when all of them step inside
the box and then all their sounds and laughter fade away
nobody wants to be left alone in a catacomb of helplessness
no one wants to be dead and all alone feeling like a shattered rock
and so i have decided that i must go with the crowd
inside the train going nowhere.....
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Fear counts
Kindness is out of timidity.
Hatred also is.
Fight is due to fear.
Flight too is.
Fear is the shadow of desire.
It is born in your embryo.
16.09.2001, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
quote by Basil W. Maturin
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