Short Sluggish Poems

Slow
Sluggish
Lethargic
Sedentary
Sloth...

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waiting it out
closing the door
till sunny days come



posted on October 7, 2018...

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fog furtively moves
covering crusty damp earth
till sluggish sun soars.

Copyright © 2010...

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A racing snail got 
Rid of his shell…didn’t help…
He still felt sluggish!
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Sunset

Liquid gold...molten in the water's sluggish hues 
    of blazing embers. 



1.7.2017©deborah burch 

Form: Monoku...

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Someone spotted sixty-seven silvery slimy slippery sluggish snails somehow silently swimming slightly side-ways successfully- Shenanigans...

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Fudge
Sweet chocolate
making, smelling, tasting
Energy, crazy, sluggish, heavy
Seasoning, frying, baking
Hamburgers chili
Ground beef...

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One red bell pepper
In the flower pot, leaves gone
Holes bored in the fruit

No smoking gun by
Juice in a jar lid will drown
Many frustrations...

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Tired I’m sleepy
I’m the epitome of
Complete famishment
I want to sleep and to eat
Like a sluggish starving man

Russell Sivey...

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Two garden snails met by the way,
and one of them had this to say;
“Last night I did manage,
to eat half a cabbage,
now I feel a mite ‘sluggish’ today”....

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sluggish
slovenly
sloth-like

Procrastinating, napping,
Full of fried fast foods
Forgetting what optimism feels like

Age has sneaked up and overtaken her...

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Stifling heat
broods on the land,
smothers any impulse
to stir.
Sluggish afternoon hours
drip, 
stick 
to the skin,
steeping us
in lethargy.

7/12/2017...

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Hey Jeff, that's your fourth cup of Joe! 
I can't help it. I feel sluggish and slow.
I've had four up at top,
But not even one drop
Has arrived at my stomach below....

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Lo! 
Years 
back 
I 
gelded 
my 
head
And 
ergo 
it 
knew 
no 
honeydew;
Today 
its 
sinews're 
not 
sluggish
And 
it's 
no 
time 
the 
cud 
to 
chew!...

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Tuesday mornins are so crazy...
get up just to be sluggish and lazy..
you find yourself in the bathroom tryin to get ready..
while the rest of your family are holdin your teddy......

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Sluggish and settled
  or softened with age
Low speed and laid back
  a lagging old sage
Overdue and overwhelmed
   out of order and old
Wound down  and weary
   but her heart is pure gold...

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pessimistic
stagnation 
arose from 
within
moved onward
in a sluggish 
fashion
vibe was dull
at best
failure to 
advance 
together
failure to
progress as
a unit 
stopped 
ceased 
all encounters...

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FOREIGN COFFEE

sluggish pulse
room ahiss
percolating
this fetid heart
foreign coffee
funnel brown muck
muck funnel smut
searching for words
plopping like mud



© Kim van Breda—8 January 2016...

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Seven sellers selling scissors
sold six feet apart
Selling scissors some would say
kept them running smart

When seven shoppers started strolling
stopping for the start
And sighing suckered seeming sick
sluggish from the heart...

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My eyes can barely open,
My mind can hardly think,
Everything is sluggish,
’Til I smell that coffee stink:
I scarcely need to taste it,
For before it meets my lip,
The day becomes more vivid;
More so with every sip!
...

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She was practically comatose
sluggish
lethargic
apathetic

A handsome newcomer slipped into the room
And she miraculously transmogrified
into a glitzy, shiny, fire ball.

He married her a few weeks later
Having no idea
Whom he was getting....

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bright red
against the gray
a thought startles
my everyday
meanders through
in a sluggish insistence	
that defies my ignoring
to push its color on me
beckons like a bloody finger
I'm drawn, there's no denying
evidenced by words
that chew their way
across this page...

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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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Lying upon the couch 
Listlessly unmoving 
Lethargic and sluggish
Like a sun-drugged lizard
Lacking the will to budge
Light hurts his heavy eyes
Liqueur played tricks on him. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Contest: Pleiades “L”
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 3rd
© 15th April 2017...

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Mumbl'ng beetle dances peevishly
Sluggish with startled pride and vain
Groan'ng brightly and questionably
While hot days dance, sadly, in rain 

And daylight sleeps among songbirds
In darker shades and brighter lights 
R'flections dance across still waters
Drift'ng away in the summer nights...

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