Best Shirkers Poems

The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the...

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Monotonous keyboards clicking
Redundant clocks ticking
Phones ringing, elevator doors swinging
Coffee pots brewing, vending machines spewing
Insouciant workers, carefree shirkers loitering
Clerks, secretaries previewing, managers reviewing
Visitors on stairs, in...

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I wake for start of new day to find all nature stirring.
The bumble bee and humming bird around the feeder whirring.
The russet breasted robin has...

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THE ANT
Every crossword buff will know 
That the ants are real hard workers
If you look at how they go
It would seem that they’re no shirkers

But...

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panic attacks and hot flushes
we smile at children’s blushes
embarrassment at the slightest error
fills us with terror
just how should we feel
these emotions they cant be real
am...

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Don Heller owned an impressive spread,
Not that far from Lindholme town,
Below the tall peaks of Idaho,
Down the road from Ed McGowan.

Ed McGowan owned half the...

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Oblique! 
(The day the gray line Wavered) 

It was hot again, for the third straight day, but it was the 3rd of July; the time...

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Jesus is right: Life entails a balancing act
(He is never wrong, by the way) : -
"Be in this world, but NOT of it. Don't react."
(How?...

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The Merchant seafarers` war

When world war two started Norway was
neutral but unsure which side to stay on.
The English thought occupying Norway 
but they were too...

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workers, not shirkers
tackle tasks with great gusto
lead by example 
attentive to children’s needs
caring, not just for their own
proud to be givers of life
described above, GOOD...

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...He looked around frantic as he struggled to breath.
“It’s all happening at once, I just can’t believe…
I know that they are all waiting, will want...

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Quirks

Lennon and McCartney
Composed a song for harps, 
But neither one was very good
At reading flats and sharps.

DaVinci was a total whiz
at graphic arts and science,
but...

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Life is a Canoe Ride
For Those Born in America
Written: by Tom Wright
5/29/2019

We’re situated equal, in life’s canoe, to start the game,
Some will choose to drift,...

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I awake to start the new day,
To find all nature stirring;
The bumble bee and humming bird
Around the feeder whirring.
The russet breasted robin
Has caught the early...

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