Short After Hours Poems

after hours
of wall-staring -
this drab haiku...

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midnight at the oasis
a short stroll
on cool dewy grass...

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At six o'clock sharp
    kind  cicadas sans delay
   announce after hours...

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oh what melody 
could my spirit's breath draw from
after hours' solace


Senryu On Your Own Existence...

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my favorite time

just sitting and watching you

prepare for your day

a routine that's never old

outfit on , unwrapped for night...

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In the darkness
it came,
no more searching in the light

Nothing burning
to distract
—shadows of delight

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)...

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       a point 
         to ponder

         the worst
        students
            go to school

    only
               after hours ......

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Indigo peekaboo flowers 
Thriving after April showers
Showing me your calming powers
Relaxing finally after hours
Loving you so much my dainty flowers...

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after the show or play
come this way
there's places
you can meet a new faces
where they hump
and bump
all thur mdnight hours
 you get a funky
lover showers
LETS PARTY AFTER HOURS...

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These are the busy
hours of hubbub operation
but they do not interest me

I am interested 
in the after hours quiet

What it is to be a crow's
nest, overlooking a town,
in perfect silence....

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The rain poured from the sky, leaving puddles to rising rivers
  After hours of tapping on roof tops, the sun began to shine
  As a colorful rainbow emerged, building a bridge to dreams

Heidi Sands

2/9/21...

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Had a brain scan, exposing my panties of lace
Told the doc he was looking in the wrong place
Contrary to popular belief
It's under my hair just beneath
After hours, he finally found just a trace...

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Had a brain scan, exposing my panties of lace
Told the doc he was looking in the wrong place
Contrary to popular belief
It's under my hair just beneath
After hours and hours he found just a trace...

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Touch and Clutch Much

There are those men who like to touch;
Happy when women are in their clutch;
Definitely endowed,
And very proud,
And are always enjoying it very much. 

Jim Horn

Congressional after hours activities....

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After hours, Maud, ginger cat,
Goes through O in fence:
No nonsense. 

Goes to roundabout, 
And sits there on still car.
Becomes calm...

Tail around, 
She does not study her environment.
She is like a totem as she waits for silver dawn.





3/20/2015...

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We call our teacher Biopimp,
He comes in after hours.
He walks with a ghetto limp,
And hes like Austin Powers.

We know about his secret life,
The way he turns the tables.
He pimps it out without a wife,
I think he knows Scott Savol.

Dedicated to Bill Lastowski...

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party's over
when you're sober
can't walk home to-night

keep on stumbling
stomach's rumbling
better stop to get a bite

but what can i say
i wish you'd stay
and cry on this shoulder to-night

but we were young and
restless wanderers and
couldn't be out in the light...

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My job hours are
Nine to five with
No over-time so
Why are you calling me
After hours and invading
My personal time just
Because there’s a problem
You as a boss should be
Qualified to handle
I’m not getting paid for this
So why are you disrupting
My personal time and space

...

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It is now eventide at the museum,
Myriad masterworks line the walls, 
Elated crowds no longer pressing,
In rapt thrall of beauty and color!
Art awaits once more being beheld,
On a night of porcelain moonlight.


Written on 10/30/2021
For: BITE SIZE POEM no25 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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a shanzi

Having  a job
does help  pay the bills

after hours, writing
brings great release

from stress and strain
of business woes
and parent pressure.


My poetry
gives vital structure

to inspiration's
transient brain.

Rhyme and meter
like lightning rods
stabilize my dreams.


June 24, 2012...

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Deep in the night

I lay awake, alone-

Thinking of your touch as light-

Tempted to pick up my phone


Craving you by my side

To keep me warm;

Wrapped in your hide:

Sheltered during the storm


Your hands are cold 

But lips are hot against mine;

Chin hair on my cheeks that you hold, 

While cracking smiles and laughs sounding fine 
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The unit came in boxes.
Assembly was required;
And after hours and hours of work,
I’m more than slightly tired.

The day was filled with tension,
Our voices raised, of course;
And couples not as solid
Might be headed for divorce.

The TV stand is finished.
I’m so proud that I could burst;
But next time screws and tools are needed,
Someone shoot me first!...

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Tired, after hours 
                 of too much poetry.
                 Now back to cold, 
                 harsh reality.
                 You so wish to live in
                 modes, planetary.
                 But there is wash to do,
                 and things delightfully,
                 blessedly ordinary.   


                         4/25/2021...

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                                       untouched by regret
                                    after hours of heavy rain -
                                        earth awakes again

                                         listen robins sing
                                   promise of another spring -
                                         gazing peacefully...

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When I was much younger than you,
my army was green.
Those little men could be wounded,
dog teeth could maim them, eat them -
only after hours of canine gastric warfare
could they be rescued.

Once they charged to take a beach.
The tide rushed in,
most could only swim in a bath tub.
Most were swept away.
It was a military disaster.
Dog chewed-up the rest of em....

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