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Best Inactivity Poems


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 there isn't a need ......

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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 mysterious puzzle,
And ......

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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 world
That life on earth is engulfed with thorns and bruise......

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Categories: inactivity, confidence, courage, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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, exercising's a pain

When ......

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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 and the Fibro too
I'm seriously lacking energy, but I'v......

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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 procrastination a......

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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 see only once a year.  It was Sunday morning as I drove to church.  There is ......

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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 functionality
making inactivity a coveted b......

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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 of in-habitation in ......

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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 liveliest of beasts
It's always at a halt
It......

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Categories: inactivity, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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 listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high

While Band Ai......

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Categories: inactivity, conflict,
Form: Free verse
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 th......

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Categories: inactivity, character, dedication, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member My Muse
...Racking anguish vandalize my soul,
as my pen crawls across the empty page,
leaving the mirror image of my vitality.
A futile exercise turns into self pity.
A useless effort in self agitation.

......

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Categories: inactivity, how i feel, muse,
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, exercising's a pain

When ......

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Categories: inactivity, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blank Verse?
...I am staring at the screen; 
blank screen, blank brain, 
void of imagination and imagery. 

Evaded once again by creativity, 
I stare into the void of inactivity. 
I conjure up a line, glimpse ......

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Categories: inactivity, on writing and wordsimagination,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry