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Premium Member Little Boy Lost
Poor Little Boy Lost plays a game of peekaboo
Pretending everything in his world is well
Spoiled was his plan for organizing a coup
and now he hopes...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of Eco-Educational Vocations

Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?

Oh, I see..ecosystemic learning and mentoring,
including pedagogical development systems
doing the best we...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Boar of Dumm - a Jabberwocky Parody
'Twas later in the afternoon

When the work of the day was done:

Many sat waiting for the moon,

Idly twiddling their thumbs.



'Beware the Boar of Dumm, my...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, adventure, books, parody, son,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Twiddling
Okay I am going to write my twiddling poems while I am waiting on God
Is that a word? 
I don't care 
I am inventing new...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, faith, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Live a Limbo At Work
I live in a limbo, wired trance every day,
Hands up in the air at a chair.
Expected to sit, silently screaming inert, 
Eyes closed to professional...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, slavery,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Unfinished
I have yet to walk across the stage
I’ve never journeyed through life unafraid
Bottled up anger, I’ve inhaled all my rage
Still my life resides in the...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Brave New World
Propaganda, major tool of the New World
   Magazines, news stations, news papers, give us their course
   Illusion of free speech
 ...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mastermind
Alone twiddling their thumbs, 
the chaotic mastermind 
sat in eternal quander of why 
they never really had any sort of control
at all;

Undisciplined and oblivious 
ringing...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, emotions, feelings, peace,
Form: Free verse
Through the Fog
The answer came without a clue.
When I finally made it through.
I didn't know there was a question.
I thought it was just a suggestion.

Now I look...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All's Well That Ends Well
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
 
All the karmic forces came in and, settled themselves down upon the fence
As the two parties arrived; with their arms...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, allegory, crazy, introspection, judgement,
Form: Couplet
The Narrow Squeak 2nd Show Chapter Three
Lots of calculation...... 
goes into the jump 
x=y+5 x e=mc2 
To stop you ending in a lump! 

That's what I am told........... 
It's on the...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, funny,
Form: Ballad
The New Enemy
he was looking for a new enemy
for it was the man he hated before 
which defined his very being &
in that respect, there was no...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, life, old, old,
Form: Free verse
Invisible
You’ve been toeing the line
from the onset 
twiddling your thumbs 
while you waited your turn 
keeping your wobbly chin up
even as gloom piles up and
begins...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, angst, blessing, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member Lord
Lord….
Thee….
Guide me
Walk my path
Waiting for my bath
Twiddling my thumbs cause I fear me
Yearning for a hut where all those sounds are tapered shut
Please erase such...

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Categories: twiddling your thumbs, anxiety, fear,
Form: Fibonacci

Book: Reflection on the Important Things