Work Rictameter Poems

start small, 
                      as...

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Arkham
Is not for me
I wish I were writing
But instead I’ve got guard duty
With serial killers and maniacs
Screaming, howling, crying
Joker, Two-Face
Riddler
Why does The Bat
Let these guys...

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Rejoice!

The Lord Himself

prepared this day for us.

He’s placed each dew drop on the ground.
	
New mercies and blessings are all around!

There’s no trouble He’s not foreseen.

Since...

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Leaving
                        ...

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Autumn
Pumpkins on vines
Canning is in session
Vegetables, mason jars
Mama’s pressure cooker gets a work out
Fresh vegetables, crusty pies
Hot out of the oven
Warm pumpkin pie
Autumn...

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Wishing I was home,
In my easy chair all alone,
No one near to bother me,
No worry or stress, my mind is free.

But here I am at...

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Distress!
Driven by time
tension, traffic, turmoil,
Washington D.C. drags me down.
Taking the train to nearby Kilmarnock,
antiques and art shops fill my day.
At KC's Crabs and Cues,
food and...

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shackled
daily wager
sweat of brow not so sweet
muscle and sinews strain, work out
to earn dough for bread, and to work out, too
cyclic diurnal grind of life
cliched,...

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You can 
drive your whole life 
not look upon the face
of harbingers in spring wet earth. 
Remembering the ephemeral warm
Mediterranean summers
clean Petrich or fresh rain...

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Happy Father’s Day

Dad you
were always there 
wiped my tears when I fell
carried in your arms and shoulders
You're spiritual, loving soul watching
guiding knowledge, and work ethics
in...

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Today

Is what you have,

All you can make of it

Is who you are, for minutes here,

Ticking fast, prove that you age in sure time.

So grasp fleeting...

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~*~
Spinning
slashing swirling
powerful    tornado
lightning  bolts, thunder  and  sirens
Spinning wind sounds like a train, head Spinning
homes  spun  to ...

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KARMIC PATHS

Rains in
This brittle bridge
Quickening my dead pace,
I am now in a lane where men
Walk in a trance. I am at the soothsayer’s
Predicting  sunny...

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Farming
Life, Martha mills
took over. Industry
certain pay check, minimum wage
People could do an honest days hard work
to feed their families. Prosper
and grow mill town, before
the certain...

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