Idly Poems - Poems about Idly

Wordless

...During a season of writer's block,
my pencil idly lays...
My notebook rests untouched on
my desk for days...

Whenever I receive a message
I don't know what to say in reply,
Frustrated with a ...

Prior to Intent

...
hovering in limbo
ideas strewn about
lacking sense or reason

images suspended in mid air
notions and impressions
floating and colliding

vague feelings in the raw
idly drifting meet their...

Ghost Horses

...The dismal, drizzling midnight and happenstance finds her lost by an empty field 
with few things left to lose and even fewer shames concealed. 
She lifts her face to the rain and loses herself to ...

A Summer's Idyll

...
A Summers Idyl

warm summer’s day at the lake
inviting my wife and I to sit and enjoy
the water is a cool aqua blue
rich color of relaxation

slight breeze touches t...

A Boating Accident

...Eroded,
undercut,
sagging for years beneath the weight
of a dead sycamore,
the bank gave way
when the lake was closed
and the dams opened up
during the winter overflow,
leaving the tree offsh...

Secret Life

...What a joke, to live in the foreign land
Can’t go from here, and I can’t stay
Still I can enjoy to a great extent
Little wonders of this beautiful day
Beneath the lilac trees in full bloom 
I si...

Bystander

...I am thankful for my mortality,
 
For if I were immortal, I would not cherish life.
 
I say this, yet my actions suggest otherwise.
 
6,211 days on this earth—
 
And I must have only seen a h...

Sonnet 243

...Spring sunshine, idly sparks our souls with freezing glow,
Still shy to shine, as winter's callous ghost refus'd to bow.
Yet bold like brass, thy brightness beams unto our frosty eyes,
Reluctant s...

Prince of Peace

...Aloft in a world,

Focused toward,

Elaborate Strategies.

Pushed to Our Knees,

Bound by Principalities.

Deceived by Fallacies,

We try to please,

Those affected,

By the same dise...

Three Mouse-cat-eers

...The kittens found my bag of words
And in their furry glee
They tapped them with their tiny paws
And wrote a poem for me


The mouse, a house bound hermit
Used its subtle tail
To add some punc...

Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat translation by Michael R Burch

...Le Bateau ivre (“The Drunken Boat”), an Excerpt
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

The impassive river carried me downstream
as howling warriors slashed the bargemen's throats,
...

Letter to my friend - 5

...How are you, my friend? Is there rain in the village? 
Have you dried up like the Zhem River mirage? 
Garden water is released only in due time, dear, 
Did you plant a garden near the fence this y...

Idly Fret

...I'm sitting with device in hand, 
Trapped in forked thought,
Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned,
All plot but ought for naught. 

Zephyr-jostled oriel,
Jalousie jingle jets,
Venetian pi...

We went once, then thrice again

...We went once, then thrice again,
Pushed through struggles all in vain.
A mountain of trust came crashing down,
By jealousy small, it wore the crown.

We went once, then five times near,
Yet sti...

Vogon Without Regret

...Glimitz!
According to your order - pronounce,
I weigh less than an ounce.
As gratchens flame and fly, to my disdain,
I wonder, have you got a light?

A conference call,
a violin,
a gently rap...

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