Long Workload Poems

I woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...

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Coins stacked like leaning towers of tilted soldiers 
Oh the stories they could tell, well traveled
Phone rings, Hello, how may I help you? 
Receipt roll falls from the till, unraveled
 
Could you tell me where...

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Being privileged to have known scores of
Americans known as 'the greatest generation',
I attest to the reality of their greatness.

Herein, greatness will not reference those who went
off to war to defend the interest of their country,
but...

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Upon the mighty spot called Golgotha was a most vicious army of ants. They were the hardest worker ants you would ever want to run into, but they had one problem. They all wanted to...

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I had a seventh grader tell me, when I was in 5th grade, that things go downhill after 5th grade - that life doesn’t get better, it just gets more complicated. I’ve had years to...

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America
Well you should have seen turkey Sal
She fills herself with packs of Pall Mall
And not to forget about Coonskin-Cap Jack
Always a-travelling with a riffle on his back
The greatest thing a man can see
Is the vast...

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yogi under the banyan tree
                yogi under the bodhi tree
          ...

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AUDIO: Song was...

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Ven-lyn A Valdez
May the magic 
of your pen rhymes
Like a beautiful song  
in grime
As the melody 
accompanied by a chime
Let it come for 
the music  to shine

Wems Henry Temmy
For lovely moments 
are designed...

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Our past relationship, whatever the boundaries, can we consider being activity partners at some point in time. Capable of giving support, in the form of wellness updates, at times to the other, or are we...

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Pissed off and tired, I’m not paid enough
for twenty hour days and all of this stuff.
The phone starts at seven when things have gone wrong
at three in the morning still singing their song.

Planning, correcting, resolving...

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Everything’s been frantic since the break.
What people don’t tell you about college,
is that you’re just tired ALL of the time.
I’m so tired, yawn ‘scuse me.
So if you’re planning to talk to me, bring coffee, make
some...

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The word is most commonly used,
Mental agony and headaches with which it is diffused.

Starting from small kids to the old and aged,
Everyone complains of this as the root of unhappiness,
God knows eventually infants will possess...

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I’m tired of sad stories from others and lovers and those who want to make me 
smother in their dramas.
Don’t they know they got mammas?  Maybe their lives are filled with dramas and 
traumas...

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He's tired,
So tired.
But he can't fall asleep.
He's slept too much.

...

He's so tired.
Exhausted.
Everyday is the same as the last, symmetrical, parallel.
He's so sick of it.
It's all so predictable, too predictable.
Even for someone who is opposed to...

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the arguments and the spittle
they are our muscle
the curse words and the raw harshness
they are our multivitamins
the accusations and the confirmations
they are our truth serums
the holding on and the letting go
they are our inspiration to...

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TEAM OF CHAMPIONS ENDURING

"When faced with obstacles, failure is imminent, seek opportunities to succeed" - Floyd Neal

Team of Champions Enduring
we started with differing perspectives,
anticipating a perceived failure, 
accepting the opportunity to excel. 
Teamwork makes the...

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Whether the work-load is manual or high-tech exercises; 
Whether it taxes our brain, leaving us without answers;
Or dirties our entire body with dirt, dust, and grease;
Whether the tasks stress our emotions to the max:
Or compel...

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One day at noon, a shadow fell to the earth and announced that he was God's 
chronicler and that he had to report important events to The Master.  

All day he followed people around...

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You set the tone
This you know
With every moan
You let it show.  

Sometimes it’s fair
Or maybe great
Fickle air
Will choose the fate

I can’t be certain
On any day
Behind your curtain
What show will play

So I prefer
Solitude
I need not...

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I was compelled by a strong desire to be a nurse when I was a child. My parents and grandparents told me what nurses do and how they helped people. I was totally beguiled. 

My...

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 She took Santa for a ride in her red Ferrari.
He had told her he needed a pick-me-up.
She drove like the devil, was short like an elf.
He was fattened by cookies, not at all himself.

Why...

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Midway through evening light and dawn
another passage of tomorrow floats;
as whispers are to cotton leaves
lingering in some quivers of ticks
between warm  teapot and lamp’s glow;
the phone rings in a hush-a-bye,
chiming low, your breath draws...

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Sometimes the road seems long and curly
A few steps forward and we end up weary
Consumed by the complexities of our curvy course
We are often tempted to seek the SURRENDER recourse 
But why should we let...

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arrive in morning
   descending gloom 
inboxes full 
    deadlines loom 
    
insufficient wage 
   big workload 
crazy colleagues 
   boss a rogue ...

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