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Best Downtime Poems

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Downtime
The world continues its rotation
with or without your attendance.
It has been so since the earth cooled
and mountains and seas became.

Give it up and
check out –
to...

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Categories: downtime, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse



Decadent Downtime Haiku
windows wide open
hearing the ocean express
decadent downtime...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downtime, beach, morning, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Downtime
When the sun sets
the moon comes rising
the stars around dancing....

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Categories: downtime, night, uplifting,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Question In the Sky
The Epitaph of Earth may soon be writ
Upon the memory of a glory gone
For all things bright and beautiful, that inter-fused with death
Like harmony and...

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Categories: downtime, adventure, allegory, beauty, bible,
Form: Verse
Premium Member June's Pride
June's Pride

June's summer haze a craze on lazy days,
while memory plays to bring back youthful ways,
of swimming fun and splashing in the sun,
downtime of none...

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Categories: downtime, nature, summer, tree,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 'soul Sessions'
Some day
One day
How about today? 

Let all that is you
Dance to the rhythm of your soul

Indulge in some soul sessions
Whatever they might be
Acknowledge who you...

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Categories: downtime, introspection, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Let It Be That By Vera Polozkova Translation
Let it be that - we are simply disconnected
And all of it that was before is now neglected.
Just as in an international call
And I'll stop...

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Categories: downtime, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Emperor's New Clothes
"The Emperor’s New Clothes"

We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying 
like chrysallis books on a branch 
of those higher deities we trust, 
submerged, we are...

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Categories: downtime, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ain'T Many Days Till My Breakdown
Just sittin alone at my barstool
yes, darling, I'm feelin real fine
and I confess, I admire your dress
yet I have to withhold the next line.

Cause there...

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Categories: downtime, depression, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jesus
The way..' Which way? Shown them; us.. One life.'
In a world containing many angles.
Having doubt as downtime probes in' faces observe,
Backs hold awareness yet in...

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Categories: downtime, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member On the Inside Looking Out
I’m on the inside looking out
as springtime slowly flutters by;
my leisure time is in a drought,
and leaving me to wonder why
I work so hard when...

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Categories: downtime, angst, retirement, spring, work,
Form: Quintain (English)
Happy Hour
It's Recess, or whatever 
He calls his downtime.  God's 
at play in the sky, bowling popcorn 
balls of cumulus against the walls 
of a...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downtime, christian,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Disturbed Shadows
DISTURBED SHADOWS

Blinds closed. Dank darkness. A scintilla of frosted sunshine on a cloudy day. Dim lamplight. A doleful chirp. Quiescent but not in a peaceful...

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Categories: downtime, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Two To Tangle -Dinda Minardi
TWO STRENGTHS  (( COLLABORATION )) 

by~ Dinda Minardi

Do you still remember how we played around? 
Mocking each other over our guys 
We were princesses...

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Categories: downtime, family, me, me, strength,
Form: Free verse
Two To Tangle
Two To Tangle -Dinda Minardi

TWO STRENGTHS  (( COLLABORATION )) 

by~ Dinda Minardi

Do you still remember how we played around? 
Mocking each other over our...

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Categories: downtime, me, sister, strength,
Form: Free verse

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