Best Lassitude Poems

Sometimes for fun men worship a gun
To shoot a recruit, to vanquish a victim
Whose only fault lies in a bun
The poor nibble in a starving team
 
Barrels and muzzles dominate
In thoughts, actions, deeds and priorities
Held  high in fake media to disseminate
Philosophies and heresies propagated...

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apathy grows, dread heavy in the heart
laziness lingers on the spirit’s light
sluggishness gestures - cloudy, dimming hope
idleness, lethargy, dark shadow’s plight





Sin of Sloth Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Margarita Lillico 
July 9, 2022

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The sound of morning
mizzles,
brings laziness in my
half closed eyes,
the car engine whirs in
the garage that
awakens my senses,
while drones of the bees
and birds push me to stand up.


The hoots of the monkeys
in the woods,
with flying brilliant colors
of butterflies,
those mild touch of the
waft waves on the beach,
bring...

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Avoiding the girl-scouts
with their cookies.
I hasten out of the store.

I am too soft now to wait
for a bus
in the dead of winter.
It's a fragility, it is a lassitude,
it’s a small uncertain privilege.

Shoes laced together,
hang from power lines.
I drive by,
car windows locked.

Walking with a full shopping...

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