Short Idleness Poems

Joblessness
Idleness
Disorderliness...

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old towns
drenced in yesterday's
spoor of idleness
why repair broken 
panes in the window...

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summer idleness --
once again finding
shapes in clouds

6th Place , Indian Kukai, #6 (Clouds)...

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sprinting to make up for wasted years lost
youth of wanton delusion
squandering idleness



posted on March 22, 2018...

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Nothing found
Nothing gained
Nothing verntured
Nothing sane

Nothing more
Nothing less
Nothing forming
Nothing Bess...

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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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bread of idleness,
sweet wine of busy-bodies
for companionship
awhile, but what have I done? 
--a stray dog roams the city...

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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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Legend is a philosopher,
Engaged in metaphysical thoughts.
Gains nothing from idleness,
Enjoys reading and praying.
Never make him angry,
Dent not his heart with betrayal....

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a gift I share is
idleness a gift for you
I superimpose

classroom back sitters 
find futures as beautician 
or divorce lawyer

front pews church sitters 
best view observers also 
judge of character...

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work
doesn't
kill
anyone
idleness
does
if you don't have work to do,
to have productive leisure,
while you rest,
peel potatoes, or break rocks.
cut logs for the fire...
you will live happily your whole life...!...

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Where is boredom born?
   Where is it from?
Not from without does it plague us
   From within beats its incessant drum  

Nurtured on idleness  
   Distilled in weariness' flask
Boredom attacks without mercy
   Wearing myriad masks...

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Study to merge the Word into the life
Converse and admit our sins
Consceince cringe when idleness seeps into me
Spirit draw your souls to obedience

Chanty round through our hearts
The words of our lord
That we will answer all in due season....

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An un-lonely loneliness
separates the breezes
as they search for each other.

The kayak paddle stirs
a fading wake
consumed.

A silence forms
as egrets, fawns
and idleness
conjoin.

©12/3/2022

Journey without movement Poetry Contest...

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Idleness corrupts mind empty,
dragged by devil to ditch of sin.
With virtuous life get busy,
divine treasure of bliss you’ll win.

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July 7, 2022
Syllable count : 8 per line (HMS)
Contest : Sin Of Sloth
Sponsored by : Margarita Lillico...

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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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apathy grows, dread heavy in the heart
laziness lingers on the spirit’s light
sluggishness gestures - cloudy, dimming hope
idleness, lethargy, dark shadow’s plight





Sin of Sloth Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Margarita Lillico 
July 9, 2022

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Introspective indecisiveness
Ignoring ideal intricacies
Intelligent indigents ignoring ideas in idleness

Sage sensuous silliness
Soaring significantly succinctly, sassily
Sashaying sensitively scoring sensibilities savagely

Words winging wildly 
Wildflowers writing winged words....

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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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Let not rash ejections of the mind
Blind thee of rational occasions
For idleness renders you unhappy
Yield not to whims 
Nor be rash
Restrain ridiculous mentality
For it is thee mind
That makes thee truth
Remain or disappear 
Yield not to prejudice
Yield not to succumb
Uneasy and insipid constraints
Shall not render me
My Dignity and Integrity...

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He is more than idle,
Idleness his Idol;
A sloth without bridle,
Along sidewalks sidle …

Now begun to languish
And had been in Anguish; 
You can guess: Empty Tank!
His heart this morning sank;
Why won’t it in basement
For a rump on pavement?

A human to demote
Or send to camps remote;
One I would never quote
Nor in election vote....

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There is dust, cobwebs, and all sorts of debris.
Years of idleness have resulted in this scene.
That is the inside of this dilapidated house I see.
I don’t know if I will ever get it clean.
This is an English quintain I’ve written for Francine.

written 3-08-12 for Francine's "Cobwebs and Dust" contest.  Cobwebs and dust theme used.
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Pssst Got a Minute?
By: Tom Wright
9/21/01

So inconsequential, our minutes may seem,
They're given to idleness, and oft to daydream.

Rarely do we consider, that increments in time,
When linked with others, make a life sublime.

So allocate time wisely, giving to God each day,
For time is too precious, to let slip away.
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when I
a rock-chucking stick-slasher

patch-monger
was

there was a waterless
		well

where we would await sprites and goblins in ambush


shoe-lace lariats
piles of rock for cannonade

this and all  all the angels
at bay

for there is nothing gay grisly meaner than

restless
idleness

caked with efflorescing dandelions
raging raiding sun...

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