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Premium Member Sometimes More Is Less
Sometimes more is less – 
like, overworking a painting,
blurring the eye-feast with an
excess of dabs and strokes, a 
mix reminding me of too deeply 
breathed...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overworking, bird, inspiration, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Pity My City
Pity my city
I pity my city there is no dignity in this city
There is no justice no freedom
Street children in a locked hall, shocking
County council...

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Categories: overworking, city, corruption, evil, humanity,
Form: Ballad
The Job (Slave Labor)
To be brutally honest it feels great to be employed
But it wears off quick and I start to feel annoyed
Manager abuses authority
Women work there as...

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Categories: overworking, teen, workme, work, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Daylight Saving Time
Yesterday, playful children engaged with the outside    
Endlessly enjoying their midsummer day's ride    

Today, another car collision, stuck in...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overworking, change, depression, loneliness, time,
Form:
A Tear
Overworking instead of tear
Fighting instead of tear
Not talking instead of tear
A sleeping pill instead of tear
An alcohol instead of tear
Why do we avoid this honest...

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Categories: overworking, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pride From Jeweled Shoulders
Life in majestic existence, void of needing hope
hanging it as a suspension is beyond any rope.

On fortune’s bed, satisfaction gets laid
showing off an obese personality...

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Categories: overworking, abuse, blessing, life, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Don'T Burn-Out
Tick-tock,
tick-tock,
Every wasted second,
A step down from the top.

Memorize every word,
Understand every line,
Solve every question,
Be productive all the time.

"I'm not prepared"
"I need to study more"
Sleep deprived...

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Categories: overworking, 10th grade, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greater Than Sorcery
Disappointment and hurt serving as a huge barrier
subsequent sensitivity of the mind towards affection
makes the heart worrier,
converting a spot once habitable to a no go...

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Categories: overworking, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Romanticism
Killer Kale
Part 2
Now they had to get revenge 

They crawled through the night
the ground frozen from days without sun
to the place where she had gone,
her human...

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© Megan Bay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overworking, anger, winter,
Form: ABC
Covid 19
From the land of the rising Sun to Big Apple. A micro agent infuses fear as Still waters run deep.

As the weather is changing and...

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Categories: overworking, africa, art, city, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unnecessary Words
Help me! I am addicted to unnecessary words
In everyday speaking I am hopelessly loquacious
And worse, in my poetry, so much for the birds,
Help me! I...

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Categories: overworking, words, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Poetry Factory
staring vacantly at  space,
caught up in a wild chase,
conjuring up vague images
for my blank, empty pages;

damn old fool out for a spin,
unconcerned with any...

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Categories: overworking, introspection, on writing and
Form: Free verse
The New Owls In Town
Late nights over early mornings.
We pride ourselves in earnings, 
from tirelessly overworking,
breaking ourselves entirely,
rewards keep us company,
as they set the bar higher,
for the next spread...

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Categories: overworking, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacrifice, freedom and justice
My mind has been spinning, since toxin contamination
I have been caught in a web of deception and corruption
Searching the landscape, for words to describe this...

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Categories: overworking, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse