Long Scheduling Poems

Date  October  2049

It was a cool Saturday evening.
Desharah was on the video phone
With Dolly. "Ma me and the kids
Are coming for a visit and Ame is
Coming too and he's bringing his 
Family. DJ...

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Blocking the Doorway Dolly
Demanded, "What boys are you
Going with?"  Damian Tried to
Be understanding. "Baby, just
Friends from School. Malcolm,
Shakespeare and Shannon."
She grabbed his hand "Damian
Rub my belly. This boy is 
Doing somersaults in me."
"Don't go."...

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In my New England town
our local Democratic Party runs everything.

Some would argue these local celebrities
and self-promoting treasures
to posterity
rather over-run everything,
and surely we could find some truth
in this way of seeing,
but we are learning a spirit...

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It seems to me that being born to be first is a long journey course of first an open door of loneliness unsure steps needing to apply to your name first for whatever the worth...

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"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" 
Rupert Holmes Lyrics "I never knew"
That you like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain

There's a line in the song that reminds me of an attempted   ...

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Life Is Terminal

By: Olivia Rodrigue


Though there is light ever present
It fades, flickers and is swallowed

Life passes in snippets and snapshots
 moments and memories
 heads full but hallowed

As people we are more than one person in...

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My silver hair has grown,
Time has weakened my bones.
My face has been wrinkled,
My limbs have been crippled.

My time is up, I must go,
My death will be a painful woe.
But before I have a chance to...

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Can You Please Wait A Second...?

In steed of ye
     mounting your stock
key high horse,
     perhaps named Rock
Key, and head off...lock

stock and barrel,
     who...

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All has come to an end, except for who to proclaim
The winner of The National College Football Championship Game

Excitement is brewing for the play-off game
Some will be at the game watching getting rained on, cold,...

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Exploring the suburbs at Melbourne
Glad are the late nights’ burnt

Bustling Bourke Street Mall
Epitome of a retail therapy’s call

The archaic Flinder’s Station
Scheduling warrants attention

Cho-chooing to Sydney
Never costs a kidney

The surmountable Clothes Hanger
Climbing it is not a...

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“I just want her to feel like she belongs."
“Don’t worry, she’ll be placed appropriately, focusing mainly on life-skills.”
“Please, no labels, it will only serve to isolate her, the last school—”
“Good news, there’s virtually no more...

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The year was 1946...


Grandfather, on my dad's side, chemistry professor at the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan had just finished his tenure, completing his service to our country in the reserve as...

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I am a creature of habit…which fundamentally means…
I find comfort in the way my life follows certain customs and routines.

At the same time I am not averse to change…which fundamentally means…
I also find comfort when...

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Initialising silhouettes submit to midwinter dawn
Beginning willingly to swallow colour of choices
Fledgelings' flamboyant campaigns display oblivion

Audacious adolescents distribute chafing thoughts
Attach entire esteem to securing peer approval
Frivolous get transfixed in youth's lurid allure

Bustling balloons launch from...

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Excitement is brewing for the play-off game, 
who to claim a podium close-up fame, 
winner of 2018 21st FIFA World Cup's name.

Scheduling and planning their dream 
to cheer on their favorite team.

Fans at the game...

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Oh My Luxurious Mind!
What should I entitle thou
What unique name?
How to portray you perfectly,
With which auspicious flame?

My mind, you’re my worst enemy,
My weakness, my whimsicality.
I strive for you, 
Still you mock at me?
My luxurious mind,
You’re...

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Your train, your train, your train, your train,
Your train, your train, your train, your train,
Your life's steel framed history: your train!
Heaven still a mystery: your train!
Miles of track you never laid,
Hands that barely know a...

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I am the ocean, also known as the sea.
I am unpredictable, my nature wild and free.
My color varies, shades of blue and green.
Shadows and light decorate the scene.
Scheduling and planning the course of my tides.
Lies...

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So let us have our laugh;
it is enough for just a moment
sacrificed to force belief
that somewhere an intangible
divinely-ordered plan exists, 
to which we must conform.
Dear God, give mercy to my plea
that that may not be...

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Sometimes it's not easy to take the time to pray
We run off with our scheduling, out into the day
We can't take the time, we're running late
The bills are overdue
So prayer gets set aside, with more...

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" OFTEN THEY THOUGHT IT PRUDENT TO
LET PEOPLE KNOW WHICH WAY THEIR WORLD WOULD BE.
SOME OF THOSE WHO SAID IN CONCERT
AFTER THE WORDS WERE REHERSTED, AND THE MUSIC SET IN PLACE
AFTER THE CLOTHES WERE CHOSEN,
AND...

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The sights and sounds around us fill our heart with delights...
It's been another one of those glorious, fun and family nights.

We like to get together every month or so...
But sometimes scheduling is difficult because
everyone is...

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SCHEDULING ALLOWED FOR THOSE
WHO WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A
GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND GREET A LEGEND
SOMEONE WHO HAS TRANSMITTED THE LEVELS
OF STARDOM.
"SUMBODY YOU AIN'T SHAMED TO LOVE"
IS WHAT
SOME OF THE CROWD CHANTED"
BACKSTAGE...

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“How are you doing?”… (sigh)… “Busy”… we hear and say it all the time
Wearing our busyness as a badge of honor while stuck in the grind

Why are we are always moving like we have somewhere...

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For my skin - hidden blood
Abandons neighbouring feeding forest
Dumping the nearby, friendly gutter

After a heavy washing flood
Hijacks long sleep and short rest
Forcing us to malevolent curses utter

With all manner of men getting into trouble
Who attack...

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