Poetry About Boredom
Poetry about boredom sits with the slow afternoon, the blank wall, the repeated chore, the restless mind, and the feeling that nothing is happening.
Boredom can be irritation, emptiness, or an opening. Sometimes imagination begins exactly where distraction runs out.
Featured Poems
Blank Wall
A poem about an empty afternoon.
The wall offered
nothing.
After an hour,
nothing became
a window
the mind
had to invent.
- Nora Vale
Clock Tick
Time moving slowly.
The clock ticked
with unnecessary confidence.
Every second
entered the room
wearing the same coat.
- Theo Reed
Paper Boat
Imagination arriving through boredom.
Boredom folded
the notebook page
into a boat.
The desk became water.
The pencil became wind.
- Mira Quinn
Micro Verses
Boredom is a wall
waiting for
imagination.
- Nora Vale
Slow time
has very loud
shoes.
- Theo Reed
A paper boat
can rescue
an afternoon.
- Mira Quinn
Deeper Explorations
Restlessness
Poems about empty time and impatience.
Chair
I shifted
in the chair
until even the chair
seemed tired of me.
- Theo Reed
Imagination
Poems about creativity growing from stillness.
Boat
The paper boat
sailed nowhere
and saved the day.
- Mira Quinn