Short Complacency Poems

Complacency has beaten me
now what will it do...

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Because, we have much of it

We will never see its true value...

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Don't be complacent,
When development will rolls
Aware of fit falls....

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As we sit and watch,
    shake our heads in disbelief
         thoughts buried in sand...

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Charted lanes of custom,
 complacency alights
familiarity trumping all
—mindless in the night

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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Complacency, leisure and ease,
Sloth is a creeping disease.
To take your first breath,
Put comfort to death,
Only then, the day you may seize!...

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If you don't think we can change the world for the better, that only means,
that you will be one of those who didn't because of your complacency....

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Walks on the line of ineptness 
Treacherous and unstable footing
Pain is the fuel for complacency 
Tortured, but unbreakable
The location of no escape...

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In quietly floating the stream,

not one to abandon the team,

you relinquish your row

just to go with the flow,

complacently drowning your dream....

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I saw that light
Beautifully burning and slightly confused
Crazed white bodies dancing around it.

The electrons buzzed inside of you
with ever so much complacency.
What do you choose?...

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i sat down
at a table,
and
i picked
up my
fork.

the fork had
several noodles
with
sauce wrapped tightly
around
it,
but when
i picked
it up,
they slid away 
into 
the dark abyss....

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I need to learn
I need to see
All this harm
And complacency
What am I doing
In life yes writing 
Poetry is nice
But how far have I come
For it to all be undone
And start from scratch 
All over again...

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Plain things in plain clothes doing plain things.
Took a plane, deplaned in fresh air of the plains.
Found plain things not drab sans complaint.
Complacency in plain places displaced.

3/4/2018...

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Cuddled in complacency
Assuring herself nothing will change
She is content

Personified oak
Wrapped in warm bark
Warm reassuring branches

Perfect husband
Happy children
Wonderful life

911 happens
To her
Tearing her limb from limb...

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Is there a secret you have to hide? 
In me, you can confide. 
My range of trust is very wide. 
I will always be by your side. 
In you, I wish to restore complacency. 
I will always be there if you need me.

Inspired by another member's poem....

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A cross between insanity and complacency 
An ounce of heroism drowned by the tears of depression
The moment has no meaning in the eyes of the audience 
Each line is forgotten, even though rehearsal is mandatory 
The long haul never seemed so strenuous...

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Drench me in the hues of ocean.
The sky in my bosom quivers
while the dark clouds shadow the birds. 
Lost in  eternal darkness
heart ripped off by this separation
Insanity mollifies  the baffled mind.
Devoured by bleakness
the soul rejoices in complacency....

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Both
Sides
Stubborn
Not budging
Washington impasse
The government shutdown drags on
While the furloughed and unpaid federal workers suffer
When will the captains of complacency in Washington finally end this madness?


Date written and written: 01/21/2019...

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Shattered shell the pieces settle, succumbing to time
A spell so subtle.
A fog of complacency numbs the scrapes
As tendrils of memories seep deep-
Tunneling down twisting hard narrow vessels
Until the sickness settles.
This heart will stop-
When healing neglects....

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Joyful memories carve
a forever-space in time.
Impermanence clips at our heels
with Luciano and Beverly's last songs.
Complacency gnaws at our life-rope
as wild strawberries
go unnoticed,
until the rope snaps
and we hear the cries of Rigoletto
ringing in our ears....

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Each disappointment seems final 
But none of them are fatal 
Every victory feels eternal 
But they all soon fade away 
But the need is consistent 
To be persistant in resistance 
To complacency in winning 
Or despondency from losing 
It’s all a matter of choices 
So be wise in the choosing....

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If the crimes of government still remain unknown to you,
then allow your conformed indoctrinated lives to continue,
but if you see what I see, if you feel what I feel and if you seek what I seek,
then get the hell off that couch and enlighten everybody,
and stop living a lie of comfortable complacency....

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A mental pilgrimage
beyond the horizon
of mind,
unrefined.

Self introspection,
pricked my conscience
with your double edged
remarks.

Realization shattered
self-complacency
mushroomed 
in my untamed self.

On the verge
of desolation
I encountered you
my Teacher
who took me
to the unending vista
of imagination....

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Nuclear bombs are stacked
To use when an enemy needs to be whacked
With one leader having eight hundred bombs ready
And another matching them so very handy

Scientists move their clock 
Closer to the midnight slot
For mutual deterrence is the story
Locked with complacency with no glory.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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when we fall prey to complacency 

and comfortably wallow in abject sloth, 
    
                   we suffocate motivation in its nascency. 

eschew apathy and inactivity; rise above both!



Sin Of Sloth Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Margarita Lillico
Date written: 07/24/2022...

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