Long Candle at both ends Poems

It was just an ordinary maze of a day unlike so many others

An array of multitude hanging from intersections of fortune

Aberrations cul-de-sacs opposites shadows cautious anticipation

Tentative expectations inspiration expiration holding their breath

Tim was aware that...

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I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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You’ve reached a certain age when life has set you free
You can cock a hoop at protocol; do things that aren't PC
You can swim in just your underpants; be a gentleman or lout
Speak your mind...

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pushing aside last night's clutter
from the late night burst of creative energy 
open the blinds and let the warm light stream in 
select the perfect playlist and crack your knuckles 
time to go to work....
channeling...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLIV

Don’t translate poems if you want yours read.
A pain in the ass is a pain nevertheless.
A « race" in any other language is still the shape of the nose.
Every cloud hides shining gold...

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The end of the world is foretold to arrive any time soon so I am leaving a message in this bottle for anybody with advice on how to survive if this should happen again.
In the...

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I write this note and place it, in my favourite bottle of wine
I sealed that top so tight then I wrapped it with waxed twine
The world is gonna end be it by mans hand or...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Happy birthday to a lovely lady called Jan
Who's a poet from The Isle of Man
So please raise your glass
To a very nice lass
Burn (s) the candle at both ends while you can.

Have a ...

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I try to imagine how it must be for you to feel this way, 
rising like the undead under deep coffin skies, 
when Death warmed over looks healthier by far, 
lurching blindly in the dawn...

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The subtle serpent’s not a tale,
conceived by one who drank strong ale.
Wise, with wings resplendent in flight,
a perfect ploy in Satan’s fight.

Its charm disarmed the woman Eve,
as Satan’s sinful snare was weaved.
Its pleasant words like...

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Sorrow

 Just because in laughing don’t mean I’m not dying inside
  said you were so God damned mean
 But I didn’t mean what I said.
 Tears in your eyes…no surprise, I wished that I...

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Take me back to age six
When I wasn't full of so many, sceptics
Take me back to the dreams 
I shared with you when you were still alive
Take me back to the feels 
The feels to...

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Meeting by a charmfull seduction, the ignition as a spark to an engine.
 Happiness flourished, blending to a family orientation.
 Seeing my Cousin,Shaun in a position i never collectively envisaged.
 The meeting of Eileen a...

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Lumina’s Light 

Light had faded in reflection from start to finish bitter battered final end
Bright mirror’s prisms a blinding darkened prison in her luscious name

Long lost love conceived in lust and lustre looming large from...

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Do serial killers do head counts
Why are spaceships aerodynamic
Why is loud in cloud
See at the back of a hospital is that the backwards
Surely a plaster is more use than time on wounds
Every sad comes with...

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I am a teacher

Eager beaver

Full of beans

I build bridges

And burn the candle at both ends

I am a teacher

Cap in hand

Full of the milk of human kindness

I fight tooth and nail

To make my pupils see reason

I...

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A calming covering of snow,
And it’s a quieter, slower world I know.
If I tire of no human company but my own,
It’s harder to relieve time alone.

My genes cry out for warm sun on my face,
But...

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Dreamers celebrating youth
fell in love with each other.
Blending first-time experiences with
desires and hopes built anticipation
and energized our excitement for life. 
In our garden, it was spring,
a time to plant our flowers.
And dedicating ourselves to their...

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STRESSED

Sometimes when things begin to close in,
I'd like to sit down and chill out,
Find someplace to just get away,
And refigure what life's all about.

Sometimes it seems life's too full of demands,
My talents are spread way...

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Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust;
it's now a desk which seems a breach of trust.
Clothes made at home had always been a must.  
Married in the "dirty thirties" hard years 
for dust bowl folk...

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Though dawn takes the sky
with her eye-lid,
and the sun wraps the day up 
in her smile,
it matters not to me.


Though the treasures of the dark
flood through my veins,
and aboundance of the sea
lay bare on my...

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Remember hangover days?
Dreadful headaches, you wished
to die!
But your soul fixing took a while to
return.
All your funky promises to never
do this again!

Alas, there you were in the bar to
be bad and to play.
You were there,to get...

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I have long lost you 
In the wilderness of space,
My love for you 
Like the flame of a candle
Was snuffed so long ago 
By a light spatial breeze,
Forgotten and forsaken easily 
Like a blaze of...

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I believe I can make a difference
Why? Because I've learned to change my ways
I've stopped fretting about my aliments
And started living in the moment, each day

I've stopped fixating on my trivial issues
I’ve started planting positive...

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Burn the candle at both ends,
Using the fire deep inside;
The desire to do the task
Is ignited far and wide.

To live at a hectic pace
Is just having a hard time;
The volume of the duty
Is like a...

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