I think when i count the stars at night
I'm counting the numbers of luck
I want to hit my destiny
Although a pregnant cloud
Sits in the sky
And hope is held down by storm
The world is always busy at it disposal
Moving freely while cracking glasses
I think a starry night can reproduce my shine
Darkness is everywhere
Laughing at people's freedom
I see everything through the eyes of my window glass
My bard has an apple belly
And i need to bless it
Only if the stars are here to give my palms luck
I think when i count the stars at night
I'm gathering some numbers of fortune into my destiny
Everything is in the stars
And life knows how to breath there
Simple silent peace
Is no longer good enough
Busy minds crave more
(8/19/26)
Some hurry through school
pile up degrees
Others drop out
do what they please
Those in the ‘c-suite’ *
eat babies for breakfast
dinner’s raw meat
Me, I’m less ambitious
family first
Then the timesheet
____________________________
* The corporate 'c-suite' is
composed of CEO's CFO's,
COO's, etc.
Busy bee with fuzzy wings,
Flies around and softly
sings,
Sweetest honey home she
brings!
the amish awake
roads full of horse-drawn buggies
on their way to sale
Its not that i'm lazy..Or i'm too busy.'
There are such distractions.'
Yet i beleive they will not stop me
Ever from writing to infinity
I'm just too busy growing old
To count the blossoms on the vine;
The dawn still spills its cups of gold,
But fewer mornings now are mine.
The robin sings beyond the gate,
The maple trembles in the breeze;
I bless them still—but not to wait,
For time has learned to borrow ease.
Once I could spend an afternoon
To watch one cloud become the sea;
Now every sunset comes too soon,
As if the light remembers me.
The hands that reached for distant skies
Grow slower with each passing year;
Yet love has gathered in my eyes,
And made the farthest star seem near.
If I must leave the rose unpressed,
Or let the lilac bloom alone,
It is because the heart finds rest
In tending harvests it has sown.
I'm just too busy growing old
To quarrel with the wind or rain;
The truest stories are not told—
They're carried softly into silence again.
So many things to do.
Won't let the rain slow me down.
Check off my long checklist.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Can we go to the mall?
Him, I'm busy
Can you drive me home?
Him, I'm still doing some thing
I need to buy a laptop, can you help me find?
Him, I don't have time
It's holiday tomorrow, can we go out?
Him, I can't say, I have a lot to do
It's your rest day, can we have a date
Him, Dad will be here, will go somewhere
Busy... And I'm hurting
All I want is to be with him...
If I'll gone will you miss me?...
Then...
Him, let's go to the mall
I'm meeting my friends
Him, I'll drive you home
I'm not going home
Him, it's already time, let's go home
I have urgent things to care for
Him, let's go shopping
I have my school activity
....she is busy putting herself first...
Beaver fells a tree
to divert a rivers stream
ponding will occur.
Howdy white rabbit have you seen
The summer sky today
The vastness of the blue and green
In shadowless array?
Or you’ve been busy all the time
Just for the habit of
Being busy, cause it suits you fine
You schedule must be tough
Although you’ve nothing else to do
But hear my hello
You are forgotten, aren’t you?
Don’t worry, start the show
Of coming late to some address
Where you were not invited
It is both sweetly meaningless
And seriously one-sided..
To stop twould make but active
Those quiets, this emptiness
Does amplify:
'I am nothing!'
Shudders, the worst, naturally
Of the panic-struck bring on.
Confronted by
Its head-ringing.
There's a word I often hear is it an alibi,
it's that four letter word of busy
So what does busy mean, an excuse to procrastinate
or is it that your brain is in a tizzy
One could merely state,
I chose to put lesser issues aside
Some important issues arose,
my attention was required
So does busy apply when,
you are busy watching tee vee
Does busy apply when you have a mobile phone
always in the hand, diversion required instantly
Does busy apply when the mobile phone does ring
and it's a voice you don't want to hear
Does busy apply when you're spending time at home
busily drinking lots of beer
Does busy apply when
you are spending time asleep
Does busy apply apply when you are following
the ways of all the other sheep
The way of modern life especially in the cities
everyone seemingly in such a frantic busy rush
I recall my boyhood days many years ago
it's much more relaxing living in the bush
Monday ~ it is off to work I must go.
Tuesday ~ the best night for TV watching.
Wednesday ~ tonight eating left overs from the weekend.
Thursday ~ I am almost to the end of the week.
Friday ~ I lived through another week, Hooray!!!
Saturday ~ it is a busy day washing and cleaning.
Sunday ~ a day for my Lord and me to talk.
Where did the time go???
Today is so mendy
But more a mane that covers busy days
In it I had enough repose
To attack the awaiting wakefulness
Defending the hit ground of possible mendicancy
Thou just don't make this known to my Teddy
For no dream will attends me of absent fantasy
I count the way of moon's disappearance
I recall mouthwash
The water's violence hush
Watching the stars' absence
As the chill of the atmosphere espies
May be the other; thou could recognize human
By what he hath on
Set out at midnight solemnly
To cool off the absent harmattarn triumphantly
And bless it to all prosperity
To compliment the hot spell mildly
I wish all winter back again repair
Thy gath the temple a rounded taunted hair
But all a sudden become far chilly fair
Seeming ambiguous and dull
Hath added me creditability mull
Agile and confidently in full
Let the night builds strength
Not to fight my breath
But hang upon with love, so fortunate
To set me on days singing by favors' consent
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