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Best Sedentary Poems

Below are the all-time best Sedentary poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sedentary poems written by PoetrySoup members


Sedentary Journey
Tide returns in eight,
shell weighs heavily on land,
patiently waiting.

For “Journey” contest...

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Categories: sedentary, nature, sea
Form: Haiku



The View From a Window
A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...

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Categories: sedentary, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Life As Poetry
"My Life as Poetry"



When the Lotus Eaters at Loon Junction barked
I ignored their confused chicanery
closed the gates behind me

I dropped one tear
in your sedentary ocean
it...

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Categories: sedentary, child abuse, poetry, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: sedentary, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Friendship's Omission
As I
Soak in hummingbird’s exhale
I feel tragic sonatas
Trying to chain
Trying to crucify
My sedentary grip on instability

I smell the repugnant commoner
Blasting scattered shots
Against yesterday’s decent

I became...

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Categories: sedentary, forgiveness, friendship, leaving, life,
Form: Free verse



Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 1
Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted 
Bustling promenade,
Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture 
Of restaurants and exciting little bars,
Enhance upon regal elegance of the...

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Categories: sedentary, sea, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Slam Time Man
15/04/2018. Slam Time Man


Im only a novice at this Slam style man,
So I’m gonna go hard on your so called Jam
Your slow n sloppy style...

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Categories: sedentary, rap, slam,
Form: Rhyme
The Four Horsemen
I saw the Four Horsemen -
the famous apocalypse guys.
They rode silently past neatly folded laundry,

They approached me in silence,
their breathe a rye and meadow wind.
Each...

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Categories: sedentary, allegory, death, fantasy, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"



eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot

slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the...

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Categories: sedentary, dark, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sloth Steaming Sin
Sloth’s Steaming Sin


Sluggishness slitters solely straightforward 
Sedentary survival styles scold, strain
Self-centeredness - sloth’s shinning standard 
Squandering silvers… spiritual sprain





July 21,2022     11.31pm





PS...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sedentary, sin,
Form: Alliteration
Selectively Chosen
I've chosen this path 
to take by my own free will 
I'm in no hurry   

at this cross section 
the road less travelled...

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Categories: sedentary, appreciation, silence,
Form: Haiku
Remembering It All
Rock of ages and smiles of ancient sages remembered 
aura borealis fantasies of chilled skies and morning sighs
majestic mountains standing in the light of day...

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Categories: sedentary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith Vs Fear
Faith VS Fear
By: Miracle Man
3-28-2020

A virus has bequeathed each, a sedentary life,
we try looking past it but often it remains rife,
We answer a door knock...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sedentary, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member German Potato Salad
The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. 
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was...

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Categories: sedentary, grandfather, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Dream Catcher
Hers is the curse of a gypsy
Sedentary but never at rest 
A wandering soul with planted feet
She lies with the envy of clouds

Catch up and...

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Categories: sedentary, adventure, change, depression, dream,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs