Short Inaction Poems

Listen to poem:

climate inaction
selfish, barefoot shoe hoarding
it's almost too late...

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DREAMS


No dreams impossible
Unless
By inaction betrayed!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
30 SEPTEMBER 2013...

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Our dreams

Are limited 

By the fences

Of 

Inaction.

 

©Demetrios Trifiatis
  8 January 2013...

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Death is emptiness 

Death is inaction 

Death is the loss of all Hope 

Fortunately, 

Death is False...

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i could simply stand

but inaction gnaws my bones

to my great expense


July 12, 2017...

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No dream impossible to be realized, unless, by our inaction is betrayed! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    20 February 2016...

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thoughtless inaction
seaside sickness spreads in waves
tsunami lays bare

taste wild strawberry
high mountain meadow sunset
thoughtless inaction...

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Lay quiet
Yearning to achieve something
But lay still
Whirring mind
I can write a list
I tire
There's always later
When laying grows old
Or I do...

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Trump A Major Distraction

Decided Trump is major distraction,
And trying to gain own satisfaction;
Never are sure,
If known cure;
Failures were due to much inaction.

Jim Horn...

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Doing it in halves
is a half-life in action
for the inaction infraction 
when job's half done
is a fearful act, 
delivering defeat and failure 
in measure brim full.
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Sometimes you feel without aim
Yet all the time want your name 
To bear moment and some fame
It feels awful to be game
To fate’s arrow that lands lame
And wants you just to be tame
Inaction’s an evil maim...

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Click,  crack 
Cuff, clap, 
Boom, bang, 
Bellow, blast, 
Rattle,  rumble, 
Russel,  ring, 
Patter,  pop,  
Ping,  peal-

Inaction owing 
To the internal 
Conflict,
Internally I
Shall belong....

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Intention of action…
inaction pursues

Deflecting commitment,
with roadblocks infused

Intention of action…
step one and step three

Step two is the question
—of what comes to be

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Am A Distraction

Decided I am a distraction
Never receiving any satisfaction
Not meant to be moving
Or ever am improving
All due to much inaction.

Jim Horn

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx...

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passive inaction grows  
aggressive inaction deepens 
indifferent action vs. inaction conflict increases
within the past self 
within the present self
within the future self
existing all at once 
cluttered within the 
current state of being...

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We all swore ‘Never Again’
  to let a maniac terrorize millions
Never Again, Never Again
  so swore pundits and wise men  

A new Hitler's in front of us now
  What’s our reaction? 
‘Tsk, Tsk,’ Vladimir, you butcher’
  ~ as we stew in our inaction...

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Listen to poem:

As bloated seas lap at doors.
As floods and storms batter on shores
Nations wait in climate inaction
because no one takes action
until it's almost too late,
By then, left to fate,
there's no track back
to make a comeback.
We're all done and dusted....

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No Satisfaction With Inaction

We really do lack having satisfaction,
Due to governments glaring inaction;
Arms with ammo,
All should go;
Not doing duty did cause a distraction.

Created this after hearing some of the
South Florida high school students.

Jim Horn...

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Active inaction, bliss thunder
At play, within our form
Liquid light, luminous wonder
Divine magnetism warm 

Soma nectar dripping
Heart elixir sipping
Rapture, oh so gripping

Deep meditation 
Active inaction

22-October-2021
Quietus ...

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So... she loves you

but must leave too

a frightening thought

yet, one so true

A book she writes

dedicated to you

in return she received

a mere line or two

Her doubts confirmed

by this blatant inaction

no plea for forgiveness

or promise of retraction

Lay ...

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Our heads so deeply in the sand,
  we thought it wouldn’t come

And would never heed its warnings,
  our denial zero-sum

The result of our inaction,
  this swamp we dwell within

The wolf now shed of Grandma’s robe,
 —Armageddon to begin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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inaction speaks louder than words ~ in fact it shouts to heaven above 
i don’t seek indoctrination ~ this dude knows what it’s like to feel love
stay in your own comments box ~ i have no agenda nor need a shove 
when putting digits inside someone else’s bubble ~ wear a latex glove 
...

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Listen to poem:

You imbibe the diatribe,
quaffing the jibe for a bribe
to remain silent and acquiescing. 

Struck mute to suit
your unfussed cowardice
in failing to speak up,
when you know the throng is wrong like you
to remain silent, 
a seething flock in shock.

Inertia, inherent, 
in the same inane inaction....

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Swirling currents within at play
Bliss mist bubbles making heart sway
Why would we choose to transcend form
When rapture unbound’s here to stay

Touch of God, both tender and warm
Gently inner glow does transform
Mind-body, soul and spirit one 
Imbibe elixir of love swarm

07-February-2022...

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Worms are grisly,
quite abhorrent,
slimy, and a world apart from
style and character, I warrant.

All they do is wriggle,
wiggle to distraction,
captured by the early bird
they're skewered to inaction,

yet they aerate the soil,
help in nature's grand design,
I must print a full retraction,
they're not grisly, they're just fine....

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