Best Distracted Poems

THE DISTRACTED SCHOLAR

Across the page in gothic script
Your clever hand has made a word
It gently sits upon my ripped
Peace like a singing bird

The word is proof you’re in the world - 
I touch the page, it whispers faintly
With your voice, when the questions hurled
Against what...

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Too many thoughts at the same time
I’m distracting myself with a rhyme
My brain is on fire
With poetic desire
But I’m sure this one’s not worth a dime...

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No walking while distracted - that's the law
Don't leave the kerb and step under a bus
Don't oggle that hulk, nor admire that chick
Keep all eyes on the road
No rocking along to music box
No whistling or humming allowed
No eating a burger while strolling
No admiring the view...

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Stopped at home just to pick it up
Whatever it was, the forgetter forgot
Instead, started rooting in desk drawers,
So old. Each treasure was boxed in original gold 
The guilt went away as I put it all back.
Nineteen - twenty, and thirty, and forty, in fact,
In better...

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While getting off the bus, a woman
Saw her cell phone fall.
She leaned to pick it up,
Perhaps to get or make a call.

The driver pulled out from the curb
But crushed her with his tire.
He didn’t have a clue about 
What he’d caused to transpire.

The woman’s dead,...

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Gazing through a hazy window.
The scene outside,
it was great and gnarled.
That tree . . .
It's own canopy of shiny red leaves
shading meandering roots
and the wet green grass
that grew between and about them.

Grand tree.

Beheld, for a moment,
like white wine
lingering on my tongue.

The glistening grass.
The shimmering leaves.
The...

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Let me not be so distracted by the nay-sayers
For whom everything seems to be doomed,
With those who rely on holier-than-thou prayers
Help me not to allow myself to be consumed.
May I find myself giving out optimistic strokes
Looking for the good even when things are sad,
I want...

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Is it that time gets away from me
Or that every second has its own story to tell
And that my circuits get overloaded at times? 
In truth, some seconds are astounding: 
Like when the illegal 'Dragon's Claws' I bought
From a firework's stand on the Kansas-Oklahoma border,...

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Some dull professor droned
		And from my heart
		Right to my pen
		In cursive sprang
		This lovely name,
		Notebook margins filled:
Kelly 
Kelly
Kelly...

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Try to act like a grown up I told my husband.
He rolled his eyes. 
We were in the car, and I could not see them, but I knew.
We are on the way to our child’s parent teacher conference.
Our first one ever.

She is easily distracted the...

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I need to concentrate
But its not going my way
Im getting too distracted
But all simply amazing things
My heart is too caught up in
The things my head wont like to hear

Because I am on facebook
But it aint getting my work of the hook
Its just to plain distracting...

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Read your science books
Cafeterian Cooks
Teacher’s scowling looks 

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Don't be distracted by insignificant people,places and things. Live in your 
purpose.Focus on your dreams. Don't be distracted. Do all that you can do. Do 
for others first. Then others will do for you. Don't be distracted. Visualize your 
prize. You will obtain it ,if...

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The Distracted Driver

By Elton Camp

Behind the wheel, Sue won’t use her cell phone
But she eats while driving anytime she is gone

She grasps a king-sized burger in her right hand
With the left, take a slurp of her drink so grand

Without a third hand to use to...

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Oh, my dear lovely heart                                        ...

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