Idleness Poems - Poems about Idleness

... Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest Line of inquiry: “We have been here a thousand times before Memory erased, each time we begin anew Of hands held tenderly......Read the rest...

... Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi ~~~~~~~~~~~......Read the rest...

... March 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 6-7 Key Verse – Judges 6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites. <......Read the rest...

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I hate. I love. You ask, 'Why not refrain?' I wish I could explain. I can't, ......Read the rest...

...Considering the finale Piloting my survival. Anxious thoughts prevent deadly decisions But these decisions have made themselves well-situated. Still, prayers haven’t been answered So I search an......Read the rest...

...the past revisited He was going back to his home in a tiny village from where people congregated living close together and professed to hate it, the absence of war had cost the country dearly, ......Read the rest...

...I come into a time and place At peace within a vast estate Beneath me warms the verdant earth Above the sun of cosmic birth Drifts calmly down with feathered hands To hold me spellbound on t......Read the rest...

...At last, Education stood to teach. Acres of agonizing memory. Hectares of Hecate, Tripling in advance of nonsense. Peering round and round in vertical cylinders. Spun web-less in a lore o......Read the rest...

...'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......Read the rest...

... The sweetness of doing nothing is hard, to take chitchat in your head and discard; embracing doing nothing is divine, oh, I love silence where nothing is heard ! Not an idlenes......Read the rest...

...Dolce far niente – it’s sweet to do simply nothing. So say those who find idleness a treat. We should try this Italian way! For a change – eat lunch all alone. Dolce far niente – it’s sweet. ......Read the rest...

...DOLCE FAR NIENTE A gentle idleness, so well deserved After the hurly-burly of a busy week Assuming control to just switch off Relax, and then raise a toast to sloth It’s a long way down from t......Read the rest...

...futility mere breath ephemeral short-lived for a moment a rhetorical gesture faltering vapour palmfuls......Read the rest...

... “Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins” The womb is scooped like an over ripe melon Time is the incorrigible felon, the forgotten lost gar......Read the rest...

...Failing once, twice or more should be called trying Because it takes a few times to wholly grip a lesson depending On the individuals and their experiences Part of living is to grasp all types of ......Read the rest...