Best Listless Poems

I’m listless as a lazy river
barely lapping at the shore.
I wanted once to find the ocean,
but I don’t care any more.

Would I even make a ripple
if a stone were tossed my way?
Even with the frogs and fishies
I no longer wish to play.

I’ve lost my course...

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A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his pride now, his cubs shun him,
Repelled by needless roars, the revolting rants,
Tail tattered, biten by jackels at will,
His nose bit...

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transfixed
I stumble down
shifting halls of
my angst my
distress
a cold stale breath
stagnates and permeates
its doom
onto my essence.

beguiled
I entomb myself
in the moment
asphyxiating
flailing
clawing
grasping for
desperately
disintegrating walls.

abdicated
I capitulate to
the lair
that cold cavity
pit of dread
that
pool of tears
where my devotion
thrashes plangently.

interred
in the filth
of want
of need
of putrefying wonder
entombed within
every pore
every inch
of my desolation.

moribund
I turn...

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the heart forgives...the mind will not forget


Honorable Mention Brian Strand's # 178 contest
05/22/2012...

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Soft rain
Leaves shake
Worry fades
but sleep escapes
thoughts prowl
Dream awake
her face only
my mind quakes
close my eyes
Toss and sigh
What night
reveals
the  sun will hide...

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LISTLESS

Sitting at my faithful desk

Listless

Lifeless work sits incomplete

Listless

Watching icy raindrops fall

Listless

View outside affirming gloom

Listless

Perchance another poem to pen...

“LISTLESS”...

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Bird song perks in the mind
as the gray haze drenches the horizon. 
It becomes harder and hard to think.
The monochromatic hours pass
from felt gray, slate gray, to black
And repeat.
The furnace hums. 
It is the only thing with heart. 
Hope of spring does not rise eternal.
It...

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The haunt of an hour
        has found my depth
In silent awe.
Every corner lost,
Every raiment fallen--
        the history of a snowy mulch.

Every eye flowers
        in...

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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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For manic, listless, bipolar, mad souls,
     the rate of solitude increases fast, 
     like the second derivative; to last,
velocity accelerates near black holes,

which tug light into singularity's sinkhole.
     If isolation never speeds up...

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Listless on a rainy day,
I had meant to work in the yard;
The best laid plans, well okay;
Now what to do I'm thinking hard.

Well, write a poem, I mean why not!
Like every other bloody day;
So listless here I give it a shot
But really I have little...

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Carol Brown..."Listless"
"the heart forgives...the mind will not forget"

but when the mind forgives,
it is the healing part of Karma, yet?

is this it's tune...of sour grapes regret...

Don...

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Butterflies entice
listless eyes,
vibrant buds bloom
where wild flowers
grow


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