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Best Leisure Poems

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Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leisure, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leisure, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: leisure, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dandelions
Sustained by the frequent spring showers
Adorned by rosettes of dark green
They burst into dense yellow flowers
The florets parading their sheen.

They sway to sensations of pleasure...

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Categories: leisure, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Midst of Life - Fragility of Dreams
A lovely night beneath the stars
   with ocean waves glazed by the moon;
nearby, the music of guitars
   strums soft, a melancholy...

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Categories: leisure, assonance, death,
Form: Quatrain



Finding Happiness In Everyday Pleasures
Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...

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Categories: leisure, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: leisure, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Hazy Tears Burst
Midnight hangs in  deepened revelation
as the  cry of elegy  flows within its waiting,
hazy tears burst to deny sleep’s interval
when baby - lullabies...

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Categories: leisure, angst, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Farmer Joe
On the banks of the mighty Skagit,
where the rushing waters flow,
sat a fisherman of merit,
the one known as Farmer Joe.
Long he sat there, long he...

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Categories: leisure, fishing, old, time,
Form: Narrative
Twixt Blaze and Claw
Abuses hurled and Alcohol gurgled,
In the vortex of confusion
And blurred vision.
Intoxicated pleasure from surreal leisure.
Fooled senses and numbed conscience.
Wiped existence of love and kindness cuffed.

Lashed...

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© Amy Angom  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leisure, abuse, dark, social, sorrow,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Walmart
I want to mingle
with the people of Walmart 
as they regally push 
their shopping carts
Eclectically dressed perfection
each a work of art
Camouflaged chic
or an old guy...

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Categories: leisure, art, beautiful, courage, hello,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tunes of Waves
In waters’ calm leisure, mellow tides drift
Along back strides that always find their sway,
The lighter blues, the deeper jades, that sift
Glimmers of mollusks that twinkle...

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Categories: leisure, music, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ataraxis
As we traverse in happiness of euphoric thoughts
Exuberance of sunrise permeates our avid hearts
Holding hands of leisure on hushed idyllic grounds,

Where pink lotus-blooms lift-up in...

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Categories: leisure, happiness, nature, peace, silence,
Form: Tristich
The Rainy Day
Rainy day
Green and grey leisure
You say
It is a pleasure

Green and grey leisure
Drifting poems in sky
It is a pleasure
Golden kites flying very high

Drifting poems in sky
You...

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Categories: leisure, color, image, poems, rain,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Ko Olina Place of Joy
Picture a tropical paradise - faraway
Colorful leis of fresh fragrant flowers
Worn by  hula dancers that sway
Sandy beaches and leisure filled hours
Soft waving palms on...

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Categories: leisure, happiness, inspiration, race,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Book: Reflection on the Important Things