Best Dawdling Poems
The Bard of Gort
...Springing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanie......
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Categories:
dawdling, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lady In Green POTD
...I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.
Lost in my work, I took it seriously, for cre......
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Categories:
dawdling, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form:
Couplet
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ......
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Categories:
dawdling, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Death Tolls
...The atmosphere rings with the bell like calls
of the plover flock, long before they are spotted.
The flight herringbones a grey fedora sky.
Markings of white and coal black weave,
wing-stitched, ......
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Categories:
dawdling, beach, beauty, bird, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Our Wedding Anniversary
...Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will be allowed sometime for a private talk. (that too only if the parents a......
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Categories:
dawdling, celebration, emotions, longing, thanksgiving,
Form:
Alliteration
The Writer In Me Wants You To Know
...I sense and feel mystique of its appeal
In vibrant, verdant, blossoming spring,
Splendorous prairies undulating breeze,
Resplendent falling of autumnal leaves,
Glacial winds bemoaning a frozen si......
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Categories:
dawdling, art, muse, poetry, words,
Form:
Verse
Chopstick Chatter
...A Chinese lad was at table dawdling with his pork and rice.
This upset his mama-san who reprimanded him in a trice!
"Clean your plate! Children in America are starving, son!"
And she continued to......
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Categories:
dawdling, funny, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Raised By Everyone
...When I was a child everyone’s mother on my block corrected me.
Every adult in the neighborhood watched me vigilantly, carefully.
Watching for me to do something wrong,
So they could call my mother......
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Categories:
dawdling, age, appreciation, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Sampler On the Parlor Wall
...Picture on the Parlor Wall 9-27-24
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Sampler on the Parlor Wall
Shadows born from dawdling light
Stretch across a firelit room set with porcelain ......
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Categories:
dawdling, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water Iii
...Shallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly
When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains
Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite;
There, clinging forlornly against the hanging grey
......
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Categories:
dawdling, community, life,
Form:
Free verse
Alien Observation
...Wind circulates, lifting and flattening
an otherwise, benign, breathless world,
relying also on deeper, slowly moving
tectonics, belching foully, scattering
seas...effecting change. Seasons lik......
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Categories:
dawdling, destiny, environment, humanity, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Dragonfly
...Today in my slower world
I watched a Golden-ringed Dragonfly
dancing in the garden: it rose and
Swooped, nearly touching my hair,
Then off again, teasing in its proximity.
In this new, dawdli......
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Categories:
dawdling, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Gentle Hands, Calloused Hands
...Dawdling outside the house tightly clutching the brown paper bag
Full of penny candy my father had purchased for me with a quarter
I heard mother calling
Supper always spoiled my sweet delights, ......
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Categories:
dawdling, caregiving, family, father, life,
Form:
Summer Wishes
...As I laze on my lounger
on a warm June day,
I hear
a choir of bees bumbling,
wind lisping through leaves,
doves cuddling, courting,
the chink of cups
tea pouring,
birdsong circling,
the cat purring
......
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Categories:
dawdling, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Tacita Pruval Learns the True Identity of Jack the Ripper
...Tacita leaned in close and lowered her voice a tad. “So tell me, Jack. What’s your real name?"
"You don’t really want to know who I am. You just think you do. Aye, the public loves its monsters – ......
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Categories:
dawdling, humor, murder, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative