Idleness Poems - Poems about Idleness

PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS Sonnet XIV by Petrarch translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire to banish every virtue from mankind, replaced by evil in his treacherous mind, thus robbing man of his Promethean fire, till his nature, overcome by dark desire, extinguishes the light pure heaven refined. Thus the very light of heaven has lost its power while man gropes...

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'dolce far niente', is an Italian idiom means 'sweetness of doing nothing It's humdrum of work twenty four seven thrumming a suffocated heart to burnout too many tabs open in frantic switching moments of leisure in despair and doubt. Can't I pause a while to look around nature? a peacock dancing to tunes of a cuckoo, when worries vanish in a world...

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futility mere breath ephemeral short-lived for a moment a ...

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How long have you been in me ? You who loiter and linger Shattering all my dreams Awating all the ordeals Turning my bones weak Making my spirit bleak For iam growing lazy And admiring a life; cozy Forcing my forfeit to flourish And my serendipity to vanish They said idleness is destructive Want to undo my...

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sunlight pours through the trees - I stand to watch as light kaleidoscopes through branches, filtered through leaves a cloudless sky mirrors my unfogged mind I see - one of those rare days where I glide through life’s medium, inured to the passing of time...

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He slept under the moon He basked under the sun He lived a life of going to-do And died with nothing done The spring well and root of all vice The canker of the mind An appendix to nobility The only refuge of weak minds Discontinued labour is dangerous They labour to kill time And labour dire it is, and weary wore The worst of all...

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It's the time when the pen doesn't move, it just stays stagnent. You have no inspiration, no Muse & you wonder if this is it, is the joy ride over? Will you have to return to a lackluster existence where you don't compose, just go about your functions with no life at all....

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The Sweltering heat exhibits me to lethargy Lying under cooler I sup juice for energy Without going out to play: I feel like dipping in bay Wish to swim along with my lover in synergy. 3-6-2020 ~DEEPA~ 4th place in the Contest. Note: The Summer laziness poetry Contest Sponsored by Mohan Chutani...

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Nothing found Nothing gained Nothing verntured Nothing sane Nothing more Nothing less Nothing forming Nothing Bess...

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A glorious dawn it was that once gleamed with The radiance of hope from the yonder Although, you think to yourself How pleasant would it have been, if only It wasn't the hope that appears falsely The kind of hope That puts despair in disguise To prey on victims left nothing to expect You channel all your blame to the...

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summer idleness -- once again finding shapes in clouds 6th Place , Indian Kukai, #6 (Clouds)...

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What hardship Is joblessness? Soul searching endlessly Roving depth in height Beasting and feasting On treacherous quagmire...

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Smiling, it squirts its juices, delighting in matchmaking, just like Cupid, whose misaimed arrow, it recalls, once struck it. Lucentio and Bianca: a happy match; they owe much to it, it knows. Lysander and Hermia; Demetrius and Helena… well, they eventually thanked it too. But Queen Titania and Bottom… Love-in-Idleness giggles …A flower has to have its fun. Its scans the sleeping eyes wondering who is...

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My lost tender heart broken, overwhelming. What will I do now? How will I go on? Did she ever really love me? Why do these same questions keep coming back? Destiny enfolds as remorseful memories abound, Taking me deeper into myself, Until I cannot be touched, Until I cannot be hurt any longer. The pain, the pain, so much pain. When will it end, When will...

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In a wintry-like night, When I go beyond my life And moments of being motionless, I lie down beside, Drinking tea with my wife, Just to get rid of Idleness!...

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