pre-crastinate
...There’s an old joke, “Procrastinate now, because
the sooner you fall behind, the longer you’ll have to catch up.”
Ha ha.
While a lot of students around here, even the good ones,
are ...
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Categories:
procrastinators, humor, school, strength, stress,
Form: Free verse
A Pre-Valentine’s Frenzy Of Chocolates, Hearts And Flowers
...Chocolates, hearts and flowers are ubiquitous in the markets or stores
It is like a frenzy storm, like heavy raindrops rushing through the gutters
I am told at the big mall, it’s like Chris...
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Categories:
procrastinators, anti bullying, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Strayed Sheep
...I am the unseen,
resting amongst invisible butterflies,
waning amidst wildflower wishes~
facing watercolor breezes,
drifting between the sun and the sea,
where the wind collaborates
with the ...
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Categories:
procrastinators, deep, lost,
Form: Ekphrasis
Plague of Artless Lies, AI
...O' cloned creations,
mirroring deceptive diction
scattered in liquified letters,
across android canvases,
here comes the plague of
fabricated foolery,
spiraling in figments of
black and wh...
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Categories:
procrastinators, art,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Time
...
I am Time,
I do not know
Where I’ve come from
Nor do I know whither I am going
I only know that I started in the past
And am going to the future
I can’t stop myself even
If poets mi...
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Categories:
procrastinators, birth, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Procrastinators Club
...
Welcome to The Procrastinators Club: we meet every next Friday....
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Categories:
procrastinators, perspective,
Form: Monoku
My Expertise
...MY EXPERTISE – PROCRASTINATION
Shall I or shan’t I?
Will I or won’t I?
Could I or couldn’t I?
Should I or shouldn’t I?
Why can I never make up my mind?
Shall I veer left,
Or shall I veer r...
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Categories:
procrastinators, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
We Can Do That Tomorrow
...I can do it tomorrow, I think, feeling good in my pajamas.
Isn’t this Monday? My husband asks.
Drat! I thought it was Sunday.
Have I already had two days off?
I look at the clock.
I teach school...
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Categories:
procrastinators, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Buy Product Crash
...
Auto Pilate
is carrion klaxon blaring
a false viral alert
The warning signal says cadavers don’t vote:
“Let not your lying eyes
believe this smear currency contagious hoax”
With p...
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Categories:
procrastinators, death, sick, trust, world,
Form: Tristich
Preparedness
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Preparedness
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 1, 1998
Merely waiting
for your ship to come in
is not sufficient.
You must be dockside, prepared and
scanning the horizon.
Those who are content ...
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Categories:
procrastinators, life,
Form: Free verse
Daydreaming Soulseekers
...Looking outward.
She’s had a hard life, yet can still laugh and smile,
making it look effortless and genuine.
Looking bubbly and youthful, glowing from happiness
like she knows no other way to li...
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Categories:
procrastinators, happiness, humor, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Too Much Yet Not Enough
...Too Much Technology,
Yet not enough Ecology.
Too much Talking,
And not enough conversation.
Too much planning,
Yet not enough doing.
Too much planting,
And not enough food.
Too many cars,...
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Categories:
procrastinators, allusion, anxiety, birth, cancer,
Form: Alliteration
Don'T Fall In Love With a Poet
...We are the generation
of discontinued imagination.
With our twisting words
you’ll drink in
desperately.
Our beautiful stories
spun from the nothingness.
Shadows of hope
glimmering in the dist...
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Categories:
procrastinators, poets,
Form: I do not know?
Trapped In Dark Poetic Throes
...Poets stumble over half written sonnets
find themselves trapped in dark poetic throes
Not for the lack of interest, but they often wilt
as petals wither on the stem of a plucked rose
Their ...
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Categories:
procrastinators, poets, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Opportunity
...Sweet opportunity is sometimes lost
when placed too nonchalantly on a list,
and somehow off that list it just gets crossed!
How sad to realize the good you’ve missed!
Great chances must be grab...
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Categories:
procrastinators, life,
Form: Quatern
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