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Perpetual Saturday David Zeoli	When time stopped on Saturday The idle clock mocks me, without turn While I re-run the scene like a screenplay Reliving a moment I...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Deep Into You Chris E Morganroth IV	The lips sit idle and lonely, Sitting in deep thoughts of this day, Softness of the hair getting its...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Delusional Susanna Elliott-Newth	Idle tears, if they could fall, would trickle in oceans of morose narcissism, dousing my ego...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Senryu Satire Karl Constantine FOLKES	a tongue not sober, is but idle...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
That Day At The Sepulcher Je Woo Han	screamed threats, their idle shouts would break against the treeline; my sails, however, shall...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The House with Nobody in It Joyce Kilmer	Looks idle, perhaps, and foolish, like a hat on its block in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A History of the Lyre Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The idle,—all these have been gratified, And now neglect stings even more than...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Alfred Tennyson Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Tears, idle...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Blue Roses Rudyard Kipling	Mine was but an idle...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
By dint of virtue Dr saroj kumar Khan	But it does not mean that you will be...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
DEVILED DEVILLING DEVILIZED Hubbs	A false idle icon is the forced idol/icon your fear of fortifies So I ask is this faith perched on...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Farewell to London Alexander Pope	Still idle, with a busy air, Deep whimsies to contrive; The gayest valetudinaire, Most thinking rake,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Friendship Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Words are such idle things; But when we differ in opinions, never Hurt me by little...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
High, Idle Threat Numi	I make no idle threats, if I find that hole, I'll go right through...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hope against despondency. Swarup Bhattacharya	How a running river, turns into idle and how an honesty, turns into...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
I Sit and Sew Alice Dunbar-Nelson	The little useless seam, the idle patch; Why dream I here beneath my homely thatch, When there they lie in sodden mud and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Judas Tribe's Betrayal Ballet Mawphniang Napoleon	How loud and vain their idle laughter...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Left Behind Kurt Philip Behm	my words Meanings now idle truth left unstirred Marching unspoken Marching unheard Marching without me —to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Look at 100 of years of those marvelous monuments Amir Samji	How long will remain idle in such a situation with our sanity...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Many Never Hear It Richard Groff	So why then sit there...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Mesopotamia Rudyard Kipling	But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, Shall they thrust for high employments as of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Mind Is A Warzone M. Wilson	Still stay alone Idle time letting my brain roam Places it should...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My leisure time. Swarup Bhattacharya	I don't want electronic media to spend my idle...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Proverbs in Jamaican Creole (JMC) Karl Constantine FOLKES	” English Translation: “Don’t idle with a skinny cow, it might be the bull’s...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Psychopathica Ryan Blackborough	Far from idle hands are puppeteering the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)

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