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Idly Poems - Poems about Idly

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: idly, angst, storm,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, beauty, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, boat, memory, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: idly, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: idly, angel, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Sonnet
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......

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Categories: idly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, fun,
Form: Rhyme
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, ......

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Categories: idly, beautiful, boat, body, children,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: idly, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: idly, addiction, body, dark, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: idly, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: idly, nonsense,
Form: Vogon Poetry
The Bullet
...Little by little, strength fades from my body, This world is coming, aging and heavy. Now, we must not lie idly, spitting on fate, For wasting away is no longer our state. My parents cultivated......

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Categories: idly, father son, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

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