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Best Loafing Poems

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Pat-A-Cake Pat-A-Cake

“You have to get a job, my son,
Your mother and I agree.
You can’t spend your life just loafing around,
Sponging on her and me.”

And, although...

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Categories: loafing, food,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Retirement
At long last - blissful retirement to do as I please!
Take a cruise, go fishing, live a life of ease!
If I opt to snooze-in, I'll...

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Categories: loafing, funnyretirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Here I Rhyme Only Once
There is a street in town
Where porridge is drawn up,
Where loafing is a virtue
And spitting is the sport of kings.

Old London town would be so...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loafing, baseball, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flower Power-God's Must Be Crazy
There’s a prickly old man who seemed lazy
Yet while loafing he pushed up a daisy
And said with some practice
He’d force up a cactus
Just to prove...

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Categories: loafing, fantasy, flower, funny,
Form: Limerick
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Miracle of Miracles, look what the cat dragged in
I suppose you been loafing in that den of sin
Those so called friends of yours are nothing...

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Categories: loafing, devotion, family, forgiveness
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mom's Admonitions
Today, loafing on the porch I reminisced about yesteryears,
Recalling Mom's admonitions still ringing in my ears!
As a feckless youth I let them go in one...

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Categories: loafing, funny, motherme, money,
Form: Rhyme
Worth Noting
5/9/22

Let me change my toning
Skills mastered and others still honing
I am not droning
People to this day passed away from a stoning
Continually condoning
With no cease to...

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Categories: loafing, dark, death, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme
Soldiers Strait
Wandering And Loafing thither-stunned I knew,
Scorching sweat-and a grim creature view,
Aye troubled and loaded vista of misery,
Swirling with abjectness seeming weary,
 
Nor they stand upright...

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Categories: loafing, anniversary, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Night of Love In Andalusia
I lounge lazily on my deck chair 
up high in the spacious loggia 
loafing the time away, patient, waiting..... 

The ocean ebbs into the small...

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Categories: loafing, dance, love, night,
Form: Free verse
Whitman Days
I lean and I laugh
Loafing on my throne of grass
Remembering you....

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Categories: loafing, nature, passion, peace, people
Form: Haiku
Sudbury the Rock
Poem about Sudbury, Ontario, Canada



Sudbury The Rock
Black and crusty surfaces
Loafing in the sun...

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Categories: loafing, beautiful, beauty, creation, culture,
Form: Haiku
Lockdown
Here I am
loafing away
like a king
on the roof
when princes
have gone to battle
petting his senses
on a naked eve's navel

I do no evil
though, but idleness is evil
I...

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Categories: loafing, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
Back In Harmony
Shards of oblivion
Life in a dice
Annoying nudges
Approaching self reproach

Bent on levity
Head on a plate
Empurpling serenity
Instigating the triumph

Sigh for a sigh
A poke in the rib
Brows and...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loafing, absence, appreciation, blessing, deep,
Form: Lyric
Fly
Sitting on a snug chair, I was staring out a window 
How a little bird on the surface was trying to fly 
Little kid, was...

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Categories: loafing, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Poverty
The poor are lazy, languid, and loafing – the rich rut,
Is this why many people of my nation have no hut?
Isn't the concept: every rich...

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Categories: loafing, poverty,
Form: Rhyme

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