Monotonous Job
Interpreters lead a monotonous life
Always sitting behind close doors
Repeating what other people say
Again and again and cautiuosly
Their job isn't just about language translation
They serve as bridge, ships, high-speed trains
And shipping routes that connect the world
Do you think they are great
But I'd like to be one of them.
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Categories:
monotonous, dedication, love, work,
Form: Other
Monotonous Boring Verse
Monorhymes: monotonous, boring verse
Often thoughtless, constructed in reverse
Never flowing freely, quite the converse
Only ever poetic slime, coerced
Requiring at times phrasing less diverse
Harsh, all grit and grime, tortured, strangely terse
Yet perhaps not - one can find them quite perverse!
Maybe include acrostics, intersperse,
Embed monoku’d sweet rhymes when traversed?
Surprisingly, a sublime universe!
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Categories:
monotonous, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Black Night
"You don't belong here!"
They said.
They doubted the authenticity
Of my identity.
Black night bade me come in,
Provided I sang a song.
Paroxysms of regret filled my song;
The monotonous song from my ektara.
It was a parody of how the sun rises;
And zoetropically sets.
To unveil the black night.
It felt as
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Categories:
monotonous, allegory, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Prose
Drudgery
Drudgery
Monday I’m groggy
Want to stay in my bed
Tuesday’s a bit better
But wish I were dead
Wednesday is hump day
I don’t care one single bit
Thursday’s pre-Friday
And I’m ready to quit
Friday drags on
I need a few beers
Saturday’s cheerful
No need to shed tears
Sunday’s much needed
Off early to bed
‘Twas a long week
There’s another ahead...
~J.D. Cromwell
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Categories:
monotonous, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Monotonous Solitude
Standing on the road alone
Shadow is fading into the atmosphere
And disappearing into the universe
Puddles are reflecting the sky
I found myself standing there
I didn’t realize that I was alone
The wind agitated the sky in the puddles
I disappeared into the universe
I forgot how many years passed
After I found myself in a puddle
Forgetting and being forgotten
I lost my
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Categories:
monotonous, identity, loneliness, sky, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Monotonous Monopole
A circle of monotomy is not to be confused with a whirlpòol of jeopardy because the amount of times a jester jumps creates a tale of excitment whilst perched on an atomic towel rail in dim lights. Accustomed to isnt aclimatised it is a pattern to behold and a norm to name. Yet who in
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Categories:
monotonous, analogy, animal,
Form: I do not know?
Monotonous Delight
With each passing day
There comes a monotony.
Arriving as the same old, same old.
The oneness of time and occurrence.
The sun rises in the distance,
Its color always radiant,
But always one, with only a cloud or two
To kiss its sameness. Its hue.
The wren and finch work their tune
As in a competition, always there.
Always drowning out all others.
Flitting and
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Categories:
monotonous, earth, feelings, good morning,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Monotonous Cacophony
A monotonous cacophony
Of droning moans,
Makes my ears cry for,
Melodious tones,
This torture continues without abate,
Till there’s no more that I can possibly take.
Music should be something,
About which I care,
Not a growl that makes me pull out my hair.
But if this insipid groan,
Must continually assault my ear,
I pray my hearing will soon disappear.
Verse
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Categories:
monotonous, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Monotonous Black
The pain I've felt this past year
Makes me wonder how I made it to here
The pain and the tears --- built up in shame
Go for a lot of one person to blame
The pieces of my heart ripped to shreds
This current life I've bled and I've bled
I've lost a lot and gained absolutely nothing back
Like my
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Categories:
monotonous, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Monotonous Moment
There is a shattered singular second of life stabbing the solar plexus inside me.
Holding on to the past is adding more fuel to the raging inferno.
Deep inside the anguish cries go unanswered.
Failure seems to be stamped all over my face.
I am seeking solitude so silent that you can hear a pin drop.
I am trying to
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Categories:
monotonous, angst, introspection, uplifting,
Form: Free verse