Short While Away Poems

a tapas interval

tiny portions to while away the time

of stressful day





8/1/2015...

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I skip rope to pass the time
I skip rope and I rhyme
I skip rope and while away 
Hours at a time...

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The elusive fish
As I while away WARM days...
feeding him crickets

© MAR 19 2010      Charles Henderson...

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Give a man a plate of fish
He might get through the day
Serve it up with finest friends
And feast the while away

A penny for your story
A dime to tip the tray
A toast to human sanity
Rounding out the day...

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Nearer To God Remained

While away all of the time had waned
Things exist that are hard to be explained
Bothersome behavior having no beat
And only thing will do is self-defeat
Nearer to God I have always remained.

Jim Horn...

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To sleep and
There to dream
In slumbers sweet embrace
To while away the hours
among lands far and wide
To walk in the steps of
Kings, Gods and wee folk
To feel sweet breezes brush the cheek
Cool sweet waters refresh the tongue
  like exotic spices
And feel peace settle upon the brow...

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On a marvelous day like today
While the sun is shining brightly,
Everything seems to go my way
On a marvelous day like today.
The perfect time to while away
An afternoon walk, so sprightly,
On a marvelous day like today
While the sun is shining brightly.

Written April 4, 2022...

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Dock

It was deep in my heart.
I want what you have.
With satisfactions in our time while away.
Sleep for all time.

With things that take a long time for the profession.
Travel within you with the balance around you. 
With harmonies that complete your visual pleasure.
I hear the smell,the light,the sounds....

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Encased in your arms, sheath of heart around me
Soliticious expression sigh in my ear
Fingers rolling through my hairs
A splatter of rain calling out lovers
The Chime of the clock desired to while away the time
Gravity pulled upon me, A Minute shape became a piece
Longing to be held in your arms, praying for eternity....

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Enclosed within a shroud
of misery and hopes blown awry;
Silent and still I stand listening
to a selkies lonesome cry.

''While away your lifetime
wandering woebegone shores.
Midst the changing of the wind,
come to me, cling to me.
---Desert your vacant vessle of dreams fast vanishing.''

''Abandone life,
hear my song,
and join my dreary solitude.''...

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With a smile as nice as yours..
 there really should be two.
You favor your mother as I, 
maybe we could try, 
making it an even three?

Let's make more babies my dear..
Please, oh please,
say yes!

Fill the world with laughter..
drown out the world's tears,
while we 
while away the years.

Your shoulder to mine..
hand holders in love,
til the very end,
of time....

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to be a child again
and bask in innocence
to saunter and meander
to while away the hours
to expand the moment
and live wholeheartedly 
every second of every day
pure magic and sheer wonder
ah to be a child again



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~A CHILD'S WORLD~ 2020

Submitted on September 8, 2019 for contest FREE VERSE OR RHYME (photo 1) sponsored by EVE ROPER  -  RANKED 3RD...

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Living in a cyst, it 
would explore the breast.
The black ethics goes beyond
the bounds of mystique of
non-movement.

A while away
a conflict comes out of the body.
Melts into a face.
There is no flesh, no skin.
Only transgression, holding my hands.

There were no arguments.
Only speech punctuated by silent sobs.
A taper standing in a gale.
The shadow flies like an arrow into
the pitcher of hemlock.


Satish Verma...

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Some say it's fine, throwing caution to the wind.
    Some say it's fine, if you're good or may have sinned.
    Some say it's fine, giving all to ease your task.
    Some say it's fine, to help but don't wait to ask.

    You may while away each day, waiting for a call.
    Hoping for some news, about anything at all.
    Just gazing into space, or staring at the wall.
    Or just having a ball.

    12/ 16/ 2017....

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Listen to poem:

and what did you do today
I casually wonder
as I tuck myself snugly into bed
the lights turned off

I wonder what does one do
on a day like today
up there beyond our realm and universe
rid of the burden of an aging body
what does a spirit do
to while away the time

tell me, dear
what did you do today



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on February 6, 2021 for contest ALL YOURS (FEB 7) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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Silence and seclusion
I'll take them any day
Upon my face, there peeks a grin
Now, I can have my way

Seclusion is so comf'table
For me, myself and I
This precious time predictable
I'll sit and wonder why

And silence - I know none of it
My heart begins to sing
Growing lighter in this perfect fit
My inner thoughts take wing

So leave me with my company
To while away the hours
Withdrawing from the summary
Of influential powers...

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The scent of you takes me
To a place when we were free
To do and be what we wanted to be
When each day was a memory 

I still want to call your name 
And see you smile knowing our game
So when the band plays our song
I want to close my eyes and sing along

Show me that we can live again
And have each moment to make amends
And while away the hours in each other’s arms
I want to again explore your many charms.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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This was written for Halloween :P



A silent, roaming apparition
Was the wife of a physician
While away on a mission
He married a magician
Without permission
His volition
Sliced open
His wife's
Heart.

The wife never loved another man
Poor, broken-hearted Ruby Anne
She died one day in Cheyenne
Now, everyday, you can 
See where it began
Ruby Bouman's
Spirit will
Never
Die. 



Dawn D. Kilby 
Copyright ©2008  Dawn D. Kilby...

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Idle play
Lazy day
  Drifting hours
  While away

Dip a toe
In the stream
  How faint the breeze
  'Tis but a dream

Summer stretches
Endless limbs
  Eternity's waters
  'Neath Sunshine's rim

Daytime fades
Yields night's dark shade
  Lone songster croons
  Melancholy tunes

Linger no more
Fleet tidings of yore
  Lure nevermore
  Painted whore

Whereto fled the magic
That summertime was
  Where doth reside
  Its Wizard of Oz...

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Business tour
Spell of work
Site inspection
As I ramble,
A sightsee
Days are sedulous,

Night of seclusion
Though at
My own house,
Familiar bed
Is my associate
Comrades in arms,
Retire
Retreat
But no sleep,

Eventually must
I acquiesce,
Back home,
Contented I ease
With your essence,
At peace 
With myself,
Make peace
Keep the peace,
Addicted to you
Honey,
I am home!!







"A husband's feelings imagined
 while away from wife at work 
 and as he arrives back home"...

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I am thinking of moving to old Zanzibar
Where I shall relax and strum my guitar,
Among the fields of cinnamon and clover
Perhaps I shall invite a few friends over,
To while away what is left of the day
With a drink or two from a jar of clay,
And philosophize on the rare idyllic life
Free from rumor, pettiness, and strife,
In the early morning considering the dew
I will spend some time thinking of you.

written December 13, 2021...

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I want to go away somewhere
Alone, just you and I
Where we can while away the time
And watch the clouds go by
And count in single digits 
The things we'd have to do
The other things our choices
I'd leave them up to you 

I'd say yes to anything
Because if this dream came true
I'd glow with such a brightness 
You'd see my heart shine through 
That glow, behind a curtain
Now shines unseen from view
But one thing is for certain 
It's there shining for you...

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The gate through which I enter stands full wide,
Welcoming the visitor as though with silent pride,
"Come look at me" it seems to say " if you 
                   have time to while away,
If you enjoy a quiet day, or if you need to hide",

"If you should need to be alone to weep,
or speak aloud a secret you must keep,
Come, sit within my corner's nook, in
                    solitude,to read your book,
For time, it is so swiftly took, before the need for sleep"....

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I buried my boys today
Thirteen wasn't bad enough
What a pain in my heart
It's mine now, gone from them
They suffer no more

More than a hundred years
Barely seen half of that
I can only wish
Brothers to the very end
I can only wish

Love to take my boys out
Take them out all day
Take them to the running field
Run the while away
I can only wish

Love to buy my boat back
Buy it back all day
Wish I had my old boat
Wish I’d fish today
If I could only fish...

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I wonder why his is always open 
when I smell something rotten
Our kittens under his bed faints
I wonder why he closes his dome while at home
and opens it while away

Is his intentions to punish me and the kittens?
And when I am away
I pity the poor pets and neighbours

I wonder why his shoes are always clean
is the smell in my mind?
Or it’s his socks under the shoes
and why does he mock me o f my dreadlocks?
Tomorrow I am hiding all his shoes 
Hopping to see his socks...

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