Best Idleness Poems

In a wintry-like night,
When I go beyond my life
And moments of being motionless,

I lie down beside,
Drinking tea with my wife,
Just to get rid of Idleness!...

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summer idleness --
once again finding
shapes in clouds

6th Place , Indian Kukai, #6 (Clouds)...

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Smiling, it squirts its juices, 
delighting in matchmaking,
just like Cupid, whose misaimed arrow, 
it recalls, once struck it.

Lucentio and Bianca:
a happy match;
they owe much to it, it knows.
Lysander and Hermia;
Demetrius and Helena…
well, they eventually thanked it too.

But Queen Titania and Bottom…
Love-in-Idleness giggles
 …A flower has...

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What hardship
Is joblessness? 
Soul searching endlessly
Roving depth in height
Beasting and feasting
On treacherous quagmire...

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How long have you been in me ?
You who loiter and linger 

Shattering all my dreams 
Awating all the ordeals

Turning my bones weak 
Making my spirit bleak 

For iam growing lazy 
And admiring a life; cozy 

Forcing my forfeit to flourish 
And my serendipity to...

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The Sweltering heat exhibits me to lethargy
Lying under cooler I sup juice for energy
Without going out to play:
I feel like dipping in bay
Wish to swim along with my lover in synergy.

3-6-2020

~DEEPA~

4th place in the Contest.
Note: The Summer laziness poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani...

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A glorious dawn it was that once gleamed with 
The radiance of hope from the yonder 
Although, you think to yourself
How pleasant would it have been, if only 
It wasn't the hope that appears falsely
The kind of hope
That puts despair in disguise
To prey on victims...

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It's the time
when the pen
doesn't move,
it just
stays stagnent.
You have
no inspiration,
no Muse
& you 
wonder if
this is it,
is the joy
ride over?
Will you
have to return
to a lackluster existence
where you
don't compose,
just go about
your functions
with no
life at all....

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My lost tender heart broken, overwhelming.
What will I do now?
How will I go on?
Did she ever really love me?
Why do these same questions keep coming back?
Destiny enfolds as remorseful memories abound,
Taking me deeper into myself,
Until I cannot be touched,
Until I cannot be hurt any longer.
The...

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He slept under the moon
He basked under the sun
He lived a life of going to-do
And died with nothing done

The spring well and root of all vice
The canker of the mind
An appendix to nobility
The only refuge of weak minds

Discontinued labour is dangerous
They labour to kill time
And...

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futility
       mere breath          

ephemeral
           short-lived
            for a moment
a
 ...

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'dolce far niente', is an Italian idiom means 'sweetness of doing nothing


It's humdrum of work twenty four seven
thrumming a suffocated heart to burnout
too many tabs open in frantic switching
moments of leisure in despair and doubt.

Can't I pause a while to look around nature?
a peacock dancing...

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Nothing found
Nothing gained
Nothing verntured
Nothing sane

Nothing more
Nothing less
Nothing forming
Nothing Bess...

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sunlight pours
through the trees -
I stand to watch
as light kaleidoscopes
through branches,
filtered through leaves
 
a cloudless sky 
mirrors 
my unfogged mind
 
I see -
one of those rare days
where I glide
through life’s medium,
inured to the passing of time...

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PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in his treacherous mind, 
thus robbing man of his Promethean fire, 
till his nature, overcome by dark desire, 
extinguishes the light pure heaven refined.
Thus the...

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