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All Work And No Play Poems - Poems about All Work And No Play

Onward And Upward

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Until it's time to pop my clogs,
shuffle off this mortal coil,
I'll ensure my life is fun-filled
not just daily drudgery and toil.
As all work and no play
would make me one dull boy,
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Categories: all work and no play, boy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Malaphorisms, or, Sayings Unsaid

...We grew up with aphorisms--
Pithy, witty observations;
Some may only be sophisms
That were passed through generations.

Old but not anachronisms,
They’re still true in many nations.
They have ...
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Categories: all work and no play, funny, humor, parody, words,
Form: Light Verse



Premium MemberHoliday Limericks

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The thought of holidays makes me crazy;
If not planned well we will become lazy.
My mom’s face turns very red, 
Seeing me always in bed.
She wants me to be like a fresh daisy!

All work and...
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Categories: all work and no play, 5th grade, crazy,
Form: Limerick

All In the Name of Progress

...All In The Name Of "Progress"

The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I call...
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Categories: all work and no play, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

All Work

...ALL WORK

All work and no play won’t make me a dull boy - I am unemployed

3rd May 2022
Work Perspective Monoku poetry contest
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Categories: all work and no play, work,
Form: Monoku



A Conversation With Jack Torrance

..."Good day sir, I've been travelling and looking for a place to stay,
but I heard the Overlook Hotel is dull, all work and no play?"

"Come on in there's lots of rooms, more beautiful here than Flo...
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Categories: all work and no play, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPassage of Time and Trains-F

...Most days they never stopped, but we always felt the vibration                    On the GROUND. I was never bothered by the noise from their engines         
Nor their horn SOUND. But every winter,...
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Categories: all work and no play, childhood, history,
Form: Rhyme

Morning Routine

..."Morning Routine"

Oh what a Humpty Dumpty morning!
Good morning sunshine, oh my shoes are shining polished with love by Mr Sunshine, oh that is my dad!

Mr Sunshine : Lalalala! Morning children...
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Categories: all work and no play, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Childhood and Games Edited

..."All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'
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Kids studying in my son's class
After school attend tuition class

Back home there is double work
Both school and tu...
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Categories: all work and no play, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Way of Life

...All work and no play
Is not a way to live
All play and no work
Is all take
With not much give

Work is essential
No job no money
How would one survive
Life is not all milk and Honey
People ...
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Categories: all work and no play, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Song of the Pipeline

...SONG OF THE PIPELINE

Working on the pipeline
Having such a great time
All work and no play
Never know the time of day.

Toiling seven days a week
Never finding time to sleep
Work in mud up ...
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Categories: all work and no play, humor, jobs, places, work,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo- To It's To the Power Of- -

...As an adult to another adult;
Does one such as an adult;
Listens to us;
If I tell you to be quiet there’s no power, no honest reply nor applying request;

And yet if you’re a chil...
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Categories: all work and no play, addiction, analogy, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse

South African Dream

...All work and no play
May have made Matt 
A dull boy
All no work and no God
Has Matt with a lost soul
But he is moving on full steam
He is chasing the South African dream
He is going to give hi...
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Categories: all work and no play, absence, change, fate, father,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberLife of Balance

...Come to my side and hold my hand
As we stroll through this maze called life.
I the teacher and you the student can travel side by side.
I see the whole forest 
And you one tree at a time.

Come...
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Categories: all work and no play, life,
Form: Free verse

Halloween Escape

...Lose yourself within a song
For many with music you can never go wrong
Go deep sea exploring as you dive into a book
Perhaps search for buried treasure with Captain Hook
Choose for yourself a dif...
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Categories: all work and no play, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

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