Best Overworked Poems

What's a single mom, overworked witch to do?
School potlucks won't suck up fat vats of witch brew
Green goop soup disinfects science projects
Magic wand deflects coupon...

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I feel trapped in a shell and want to get out
It get so frustrating I want to shout
Trying to figure out what put me here...

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~~~ A Day In The Life ~~~


Up at dawn and off to work.
Garden center today , that was a perk.
Watched two hummingbirds in mating dance.
Almost...

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Being a frontline health careworker
has us all consumed with fear
A nursing home filled with the elderly could 
become a catastrophic atmosphere

If the Coronavirus enters their...

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We used to play Cowboys
We used to play Indians
We used to play Pirates
Sailing swift the Caribbean

Now we play worn out Doctors
Accountants counting others millions
Now we...

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Of course Santa exists
                     ...

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Shed a tear for those deceased 
In COVID’s agony and pain,
Shed one for their bereaved 
Never to see loved ones again,
Then spare a thought for...

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When I Take a long time to finish, I am slow,
When my boss takes a long time, he is thorough,

When I don't do it, I...

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You know, I thought changing one’s job would be easy,
To start a new vocation would be breezy.
I got me local newspaper, looking for a job...

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My chest is raw and there are bite marks on my soul
My hands are curled and my overworked libido is dying

And I know

I’m at the...

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The Three Islands Sleep!

Sleep, sleep, the islands asleep!
Sleep while the winds blow on her face,
On her trees, and on her mountains and hills,
Sleep when the...

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Will no one or nothing
Relieve us of these pseudomen, these shadows
Who suck away prosperity
As leaves draw sunlight,
Leaving all the rest of us
Ashiver in the shade...

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It never ceases to amaze me
how much loving care is given
by our overworked medical staff.
Their dedication to patients supreme.

When one stops to think of abuse
that...

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Pi pi pi... kekyo kekyo Hooo- hoke'kyo Hoohokekyo
awakening to the sounds of Japanese bush warblers
they are signalling the start of the day
welcoming warm humid heat...

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I view it as unseemly to use high-sounding language to make an impression.
I perceive it to be ostentatious to  marshal words vainglorious in succession.

It...

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