Short Loitering Poems

No Loitering, Skating, Skateboarding or Cycling....

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Loitering outside
Complaining about work
To no one in particular
Cigarettes dangling in hand
Slowly burning
One breath at a time....

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Too heavy for sky,
Night cradles the harvest moon.
Soft, loitering, light
Silhouetting rooftops, spires
Jagged black against its glow...

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Two of our fine professionals in blue
Casually loitering at the zoo
Said they were at lunch
[It was just a hunch]
Claiming they had nothing better to do!

May 17, 2021...

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hair
  tasselled
    encircled
a
sleeping
         smile

hair
    awakened
a
   beautiful
        flame

shadows
   loitering
in
tenderness
turn
  to
     the sun

unlearning
   piercing
       music
...

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Wafting in the unmistakable scent
of poor choices
Grifting in the prodigal valley
of mistakes
Loitering in the tenement
of false witness
Wandering along the highway
—of forgotten dreams 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)...

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There was a young lady from Gwent
Who’d only make love in a tent
When pitched in a field
She’d willingly yield 
The farmer now charges ground rent!

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4/10/18...

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frigid winds
slice through
forlorn survivors

vicious viruses
infect
silently

ignoble trolls
incinerate
merrily

loitering crowds
frolic
mindlessly

tis the season
for 
force-fed
forgettable 

FOLLY...

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Near John Keats House

Drinking your coffee
And sipping your beer
Alone and palely loitering, 
Sleeping on the Heath
Near Beauty-Truth's dream, 
Going nowhere
But, alas, no where to go, 
I go up to the Public Baths at noon
And come down to eye your women....

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dwell too long,
freshness 'tis gone
lingering on 'tis loitering
skim the top for cream
fish shallow with one 
throw of the cast net
then move on,
before the one moment
longing elsewhere 'tis gone
blessed be, the shallow 
touch and feel,
bounteous in harvest....

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Tears jerking, winter  blue sounding
grieved mind crashing, wintry breeze dabbing
death horns calling, pink lips screaming
dark eyes bleeding, heart stick cracking
tragic hours loitering, disheartening believe dismissing
quenching all neurosis, victory sounds crazy....

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Love lives lovely lines loitering here
Be beyond briefly brining beer
Style smiles softly spreading steer
Choose calm cheer charming change
Rich rapture reaps range
Succinct sees strange
Live life loud
Choice clouds
Proud




Leon Enriquez
09 March 2016
Singapore...

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A daughter is your whole world
Can go without
Job and ambition
Loitering and shopping
Grand feast
And gathering
Before marry
You're too absorbed
To remember your friends
After marry
You're too busy
To remember them too
Hei Hei
Just
A kind of carelessness
Just
A kind of selfless love...

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I set out, and loitering is forbidden,
And I, who stood intent upon beholding the roots
tried it; I swear it!
but so far I understood,
that hardly could the eye attain it.

The cord of a bow; 
never shot an arrow from itself,
for that, you need a bowman

... But also, permission to loiter....

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GRACE

                I saw her loitering in the park all alone,
             simply dressed yet attractive and elegant. 
               I wished to address her ‘Hello’,
              but not dared to disturb her graceful walk.
               I failed to utter a syllable, she walked away.

       
  06/08/18...

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FRAGMENTS 7


Listen then to the rhyme
As music plays and floats
To bounce in an upbeat rhythm
Of vibrant chimes lingering
Even loitering between gaps
Of silence and stillness
Yet merging into a circle
Of separate realities
Once more whole and wholesome

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
04 October 2019
Singapore...

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Somber readjustment's curve
lost sympathy, numbs the soul to serve,
that loitering giant, ridicule, its' verve
so filed away ~ injustice also swerve!

This parent of denounce,
who chanced God's word
still held onto a promise, her conserve
The Mother, soul's inclement meaning's nerve!

While modern image focused . . . . extraverts!...

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purpl'd eyes heaven
with tongue cloven
met mystic malady
embroidered ensconced epilepsy 
dripping damped desires 
jittery earth admires

saline liquid loitering 
deflowered dusts damping 
scrunched sans spooky

moistened mists melt
Jove's jumpy jets
twain trailed crest

dull disease dances
later lost traces
    19:11:16:11:56...

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Down at the park

no biking
no spitting
no littering
no loitering

no children
no running
no walking
no skipping

no singing
no sweating
no flipping
no picnicking 

no body


Kathy Collins
October 21, 2013

P.S.

I used to live in a town where you were allowed to jog as long as you didn’t sweat.  Anything perspiration-related in public was forbidden....

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Can you hear?
Stray echoes
Buzz loitering


Waiting here
Jazz echoes
Stray muttering


Swirling clear
Pulse of voice
Sonic glimpses 


Puzzle pieces
Random poise
Echoes straying 


Void places
Crisp tints steer
Surprise greets choice


Echoes stray
On the way
Can you hear?




Leon Enriquez
02 November 2017
Singapore...

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He dabbles in this, dips his toes in that
Dithering with daubs, splattering dollops and spatters
Dilly-dallying, loitering lazily lackadaisical
Unable or unwilling to commit.
Half-hearted efforts lie half-baked, unfinished
Laying listless, languidly lolling and littering.
It's so annoying to see time wasted and fortuity fraught
But what can anyone watching do?...

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Dance with the stray chance
Change comes crashing cheer
Dream drowsy dizzy daze
Feel fleeting funny face

Laughter looming lasting lymph
Trite troubles toss twisting
Leave lazy loitering lust
Blooms brightly booming bust

Jumpy jester jerks joy
Meek mushy moments move
Lift lousy limping looks
Bearing beyond bright books




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2016
Singapore...

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As I was loitering around,
Amongst those wheatfield,
Waiting for you  to come,
At 3am .

As the full moon shone bright,
And the bats hunting,
I was waiting for you to come ,
At 3am.

As the demon inside me arose,
Thinking of the blood,
 Dripping from that slice of meat,
At 3am.

As you walked towards me,
This time with a live demon,
My eyes turn red with glee,
At 3am...

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sea of gold serenity bathes
    tenderness and beauty of life                   
      a changeless perfection standing             
        silently over slumbering                       
          unblemished melting lace on raw
            umber ground. loitering through, a
               murmuring wind garners its pink
                  blossoms and teasing aroma


10/4/2020...

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
|I am a billboard available now |
|for advertisement of anything |
|like product you want to vend | 
|or some dream you like to sell |
|I stand high lighted day - night|
|in full  view of loitering people |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
I  m
n  a
t   r
h  k
e  e
c  t
r  c
o e
w n  
d  t
e  r
d e 
decide  to
profit now...

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