Short Day After Day Poems

I hate the lies
I hate the pain
That you cause
Day after day...

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Day after day tired 
pain medicine pushing through 
tilt of head -asleep...

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A friendly boxer up in Green Bay
counsels townsfolk day after day
A sagacious old dog
with a website and blog
He advises: Less work and more play!...

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Flowers, trees, the clouds above
Symbols of nature, symbols of love
Day after day
It's nature's ballet
When shown the image of a dove...

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There once was a Martian from Phobos
When he spoke he was really verbose
He chattered away
Yes, day after day
Till, he drove the whole moon comatose!...

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How long is this going to take
day after day I sit and wait
while your content I just ache
I guess for you things are great
I put up a wall filled with hate...

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I'm going crazy 
without you here
I see you around
I feel you near
day after day
year after year
I wait for you to come
 and take away my fears.

Jessica...

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Too stubborn to confess 
giving away small hints 
In an desperate attempt 
You will notice 
Day after day 
Over and over 
Showcasing my subtle 
Vulnerabilities....

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You torment me day after day
Typing programs never goes my way
You drive me quite insane
lost my mind and your to blame
Web and net are not my games to play.

5/23/12...

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affirmations repeated birth desire ~
but in truth, there is nothing to acquire

we’re lost in the wilderness of thought streams ~
day after day, we thus renew our dreams...

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it was 20 years this coming May
it was chilly cold
it was starving being fed
seemed a long day 
with no moon
sun after sun
day after day
it was 20 years this coming May...

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limited knowing, affirmed with conviction 
there is of course no harm in this per say
wherefrom arises the creative urge of soul
compelling it to act this way, day after day...

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Sitting on our butts day after day is not enjoyable; it is a living hell with pure soreness.
Disappointed because we don’t stand.
Curse to the cubicle islands.
Marx was right....

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Moving in small spaces
                 day after day
               the same turns
                from up here
        you seem to spin and spin
             clean shiny gears...

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Just this last one and I'm done for today
Look forward to this challenge day after day
It's why I rise
Talk with youse guys
To continue for a few more years I pray...

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Spring is but a week away,
Been waiting for it day after day.
Blues skies then rain
Blue skies again.
Bloom bloomin' everywhere,
Bees be buzzin'
Birds be nestin'
At this time of year,...

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Just this last one and I'm done for today
Look forward to this challenge day after day
It's why I arise
Greet the sun and youse guys
To continue for many more years I pray...

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A lim'rick a day keeps head doctors away
It's therapy for the brain, quite needless to say
That surely is true
Don't know about you
But it's how I stay afloat, day after day...

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multitude of forms
go about their routine
day after day in trance 
driven by cravings of ego

save but a few none pause
in the void of cessation 
where the soul is free
is it not a tragedy...

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She ventured forth now
Holding onto no heart true
Where hers still broken
Still lasting day after day
In lumbering feelings threw

Entrant into Suzette Crous's "TANKA - THE PIVOT" contest

10/10/2012...

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The cold dripping silence,
day after day…

Washes the future,
past floating away

Drop by drop,
filling up with regret

Drowning the moment
—caught in its net

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)...

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Holland is the flower capital of the world
Amazing multi-color fields send my mind in a whirl
Roses go on forever
Nine billion treasures
Day after day they send our minds in a swirl...

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Day-after-day the widow
"listens out for the ordinary" 
and hears only susurrant voices
until deafness overcomes her

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 21, 2012

Inspired by Jan Oskar Hansen's "To Be Alone"...

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Her denial is her armour and she wears it brazenly,
She hides in silence just behind your smile,
She ebbs away day after day until there’s nothing left,
Then you realise that your mind has been defiled.

wM...

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with sterling pen in hand and splintered heart
the poems flow day after day
beneath the old white birch



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted for CONTEST NO.380 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - December 25, 2017...

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