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Downtime

Take time for downtime,
your ocean’s a bit calmer;
Recharge how you like;
Mind, body, and soul connect,
yes it’s ok to unwind.

Categories: downtime, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Tanka

Downtime In a Secluded Corner of Dust

i pray for simple life
i pray for the incision of my decision
i pray that wellness and betterment will prevail
for i am wholly unhealthy in a masquerade party thrown by myself
i invite all who i know to come, but nobody responds
as a result, i am left with a quiet indescribable in modern time

the party is still

Categories: downtime, blue, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Downtime

It’s nice to have some holiday downtime and not be all go-go-go. I’ve even gotten in some Animal Crossing play. After 40 minutes of picking up weeds, Bianca, one of my villagers, told me she’d heard I was dead.

Later, we’re in Lisa’s living room taking turns playing songs from Spotify.
Lisa just played “Woo”, by Rihanna.

Categories: downtime, christmas, holiday, music, teen,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Downtime With a Jelly Jar

White sand cascades in a wee washed-up jelly jar.
Shiny on its side, stepwise tumbling as a child turns it.
Boy’s curious mind reveals a tiger’s eye, rhodonite,
Snowflake obsidian, red jasper and quartz midst sand.
In reverse play, stones look like sleds on a snowy slope.
Slow reveal of each prize mesmerizing and calming.

11/22/2021
Line Gauthier’s BITE SIZE POEM no27

Categories: downtime, child, imagery, simple,
Form: Free verse

Downtime

That Grand Old Opry;
Nightly Nashville celebrates
Country heritage.
Down home folks sing down home songs;
Hard working lives in downtime.

Categories: downtime, appreciation, music, poems, poetry,
Form: Tanka

Downtime and Dust Trio

timeout

polished sandstone grains
fine trickle through time's measure
in downturned hourglass


            made out of dust

man grinds man to dust
harsh words make quicksand for him
dust speaks up for dust


           Elah unveiled

in Elah's vale
a stone's throw from enigma
gigantic

Categories: downtime, meaningful, time, words,
Form: Haiku

Downtime

Every creative soul
experiences downtime
It's that lull,
the ebb of the flow
When the hot flames of creativity
starts to burn real low
Now this can frustrate a novice,
someone who hasn't lived in this empty state 
They're much to impatient,
they haven't yet learned that they need to wait
Downtime is such a necessary part
of the creative process
It gets the epiphanies recharged
To

Categories: downtime, allegory, allusion, writing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Decadent Downtime Haiku

windows wide open
hearing the ocean express
decadent downtime

Categories: downtime, beach, morning, ocean,
Form: Haiku

Downtime

When the sun sets
the moon comes rising
the stars around dancing.

Categories: downtime, night, uplifting,
Form: Haiku

Downtime

The world continues its rotation
with or without your attendance.
It has been so since the earth cooled
and mountains and seas became.

Give it up and
check out –
to the closet corner, if you please.
Dark and soundless
singularly personal.

Sit with shoes of worn tread left upon the
path of overuse,
the scent of lessons learned and
willfully ignored.

Feel silky seams sewn with promise
brush

Categories: downtime, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse