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Best Inactivity Poems

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Premium Member Why Poetry
With Shakespearean romance I can't compete
Or Virginia Woolf's lovely agony
Or the wit of Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain
The genius of Emily Dickinson, splendidly plain

I know...

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Categories: inactivity, appreciation, encouraging, inspirational, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Life Teaches
Life teaches many a valuable truth,
That makes our existence one of worth.

Graying and growing old is no curse,
As experience directs life’s course.

See life as a...

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Categories: inactivity, inspirational, integrity, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Corona and Social Distancing
There sneaked a micro organism into the lives of human kind from elsewhere,
Who made it intruded is still a mystery, yet it’s fate of the...

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Categories: inactivity, confidence, courage, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Roll of the Dice
Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit,...

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Categories: inactivity, age,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member What the Fibro
My feet are always aching, like I've been on them all day
my muscles keep on twitching, my back keeps giving way
the migraines keep me tired...

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Categories: inactivity, body, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



New Dawn
As I roll out of bed tomorrow
I’m gonna say goodbye sorrow
Fare thee well Mr. Cynicism
See you later Mr. Pessimism
Adios to Mr. Skepticism
Exit negativity, enter positivity
No...

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© John Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inactivity, africa, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What I Saw
It was not the first time, nor would it be the last time that I would observe with pleasure that which I am privileged to...

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Categories: inactivity, america, birth, birthday, child,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Summer Without Daylight
My city has been abandoned
by royalty for vultures to defecate and Hyenas to spit on.
The large hole left is a huge hindrance to every emotional...

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Categories: inactivity, anxiety, depression, lost, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member African In Influence, American In Attraction
A tree of three trunks and ten branches
which grows particularly the maple leaf
and blest with a natural freezer customized by climatic inactivity
with a unique symbol...

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Categories: inactivity, africa, america, community, earth,
Form: Ode
The Pen
"The pen is mightier than the sword"
- In general, I guess that's true
But mine's a lazy blighter;
It treats sloth as a bloody virtue

It's not the...

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Categories: inactivity, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hardworking
Honour through labour is the ultimate goal
Achievement’s prefect sending an alert at every pause
Regulating inactivity to give idleness no chance
Demand is great and the stake...

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Categories: inactivity, character, dedication, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member 1984
What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and

Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen

Blue-eyed he...

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Categories: inactivity, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Roll of the Dice
Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit,...

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Categories: inactivity, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Untitled
Untitled

We dance across the heavens, like shining stars,
to the never ending beat of our universes heart.
Its song, time – sometimes – becomes dull, grey,
aches of...

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Categories: inactivity, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
But I'M Retired
But I am Retired

By Elton Camp

From far too many old men that I know,
If wife wants help, this is how it will go
Because they have...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inactivity, familywork, wife, jobs, work,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things