Short Full Time Poems

18th century painter William Marlow
a typographical artist you may know
So expert at design
as architect was he full time...

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living without love is a full-time job
a difficult task to accomplish
yet as workaholics we manage
through daily practice 
we achieve mastery

fools we are...

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an early spring chill
brings on a terrible cold
viruses rampant
pollen in the air is worse
full-time sniffling and sneezing

written April 16, 2022...

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Jill decided she'd live a life of crime
Profitable way to spend all her time --
  Gang boss said, "Learn to Carjack
  And we'll always have your back --
In Chicago we'll set you up full-time"...

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In spite of my age, my brain still works
Thought by now I'd need a full time nurse
I'm still clicking along
Singing sixties songs
To tell the truth it could be a whole lot worse...

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There's a lot of people that just don't get it
Feel they're owed a living, other factors they omit
They fail to see
What life really means
It's a twenty-four-hour full-time commit...

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In spite of my age, my brain still works
Thought by now I'd need a full time nurse
I'm still clicking along
Singing sixties songs
To tell the truth it could be a lot worse


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Full time poet,
part time novelist

Full time storyteller,
part time bard

The difference greater
than words will imply

Hemispheric divergence
—the why and the how

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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The Grim Reaper


Scythe-wielding right hand
His demand is always met
Your death a touch of hand
Black-cloaked no face to see
Full time job guaranteed 
Mythical strange creature 
The first and last you will ever see...

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A part-time poet.

Sounds like an oxymoron-

Poets work full time.

Capturing life in their minds-

Freeing it with chosen words.


July 1, 2019

Contest: Part-Time Poet
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
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I can never mean an eye 
You can never see me in my eyes 
For they have a full time job 
On the faces of others rather than mine 
They can see outside better than home 
I wish my eyes could see the real me 
Before that I of yours invaded the flat above my nose...

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I am the stereotype of a middle-age lady with grey hair
Working as a preschool teacher

Wearing mumu dresses in bright  colors

A Sunday school teacher wanting to make it a full-time job

To whittle myself a new profession

I'm not the brightest crayon in the box
But, I know I can do it!...

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Full time
     
God’s good gift*

for great usage

while He blesses us well

on time!

*James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

June 11, 2019...

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trapped in this exscluded place
no where to call home 
or even a place that is safe
left abondend disowned

No one to turn too 
outside in the cold
but what can i do?
no to hug or hold

so here i am all alone
no place left tp go
im just looking for a place called home
so im on my own at a full time low...

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CAROUSEL

carousel
this familiar tune
sounds so weird

merry go round?
no!
this thing    off by itself

carousel
every full time round
this odd face

carousel
choo choo whistles
frightening dissonance

carousel
off by itself
timeless riders

carousel
out of time
distant coaster rumbles

carousel
different time
different place...

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A-im to show full-time love
B-efore the Almighty's sight; 
B-ecause it will truly set
Y-our faith and hope aright.

F-ull-time love of the heart
E-agerly warms each day; 
L-ife on October thirtieth
I-s blessed neath the skyway.
C-omplete the harmony
I-n the world watched from above; 
A-llow your soul to feel the Father's full-time love....

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Twirly, swirly, all around
dancing is fun,
that’s what I have found!

Up, down, touch the ground
dancing makes me giggle,
Oh! How I love the sound.

Dancing frees the soul
don’t hold back,
just let it all go!

Take a stroll
let your feet dance,
and lose control.

Dance and have a good time
having fun
doesn’t cost a dime!

Part-time or full-time
dancing is fun,
all the time!...

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I've done some horrid things
that others admire
and find but few
of life's conjectures
with which I am in harmony
my grand planned path to happiness
abandoned mid-draft
favoring another specious endeavor
the sought-after solution
only solving the equation
for the moment in which it made sense,
still,
in both it's common usages,
my life not a waste
full-time a fool
and part-time poet...

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No reproductive center of the words in pen
I feel the words being born in the ovary of
mind
Mind conceives the thoughts

In full time of pregnancy the thoughtful mind
giving birth
the words in the natural earth of literature

Now the earth
Burning furnace globe sphere
Sun warming swallowing the all words in
hungry time
My inside killing itself on the door of death to
rebirth another sunny words

11.05.2020 (Chattogram City)...

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This grown up stuff gets more complex
than the super ego and the id
We never have much time for sex
I don't know how we ever did 

Full time schedules
Traffic is always hell
No matter how much we scream and yell
We are running on fumes and the mirror tells
I'm at my wits end, 
I live for the weekends

Wake up late, drink some tea 
I turn  off our phones 
I pray no one wakes me
I don't want t.v. 
I don't want food to eat.
I just want to sleep...

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She reaches,
Uncrontrablly, 
For my Heart.

But this diatribe
is Missing now. 

And unlike you, 
I can't self-repair
Without a set of
Instructions. 

So bold, so feverish, 
I retreat into a coma

Protecting myself
from this poison. 

Not easy and
A full time job, girl. 

So you sat the sunrise
Out this round, but 
I can't agree anymore.

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More poetry and photography at www.alexfalls.com...

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For years, desire,
Was punctuated with excuse,
And resentment,
Became a full time resident
In his thoughts.

Age left him feeling
Like a malcontent,
Floundering through life shadowing
Love's Portion.

The years he envisioned as his
Had been long pilfered,
By inattention and neglect;

His decent years, now remote,
He visions through a haze;
Remorseful feelings by himself

He knew changed nothing,
For yesterdays are unforgiving,
And time respects no person....

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I’m daughtering in place and it’s a full time job.
I'm a posable figurine, like a barbie for my mom.
She's been shopping in a frenzy, to fill the empty hours.
I think we have an Amazon truck dedicated to our house.
I needed another closet so we took my sister's room
It looks like a Dior outlet-store or maybe King Tut's tomb.
"I think you've gotten carried away," I said to her last night.
Looking at all the loot arranged, she said, "you may be right."...

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Lucille (“Lucy”) Ball
Her desire for show biz fame is anything but small
Plays the wife of Ricky the Cuban drummer
How she goes about it could not be funnier.

Desi (“Ricky”) Arnaz
A full-time job reining in his kooky wife he has
Loves Lucy with all his heart
And his conniving Lucy is extremely smart!

FIRST PLACE WINNER
written September 29, 2021
especially for "Clerihew 2" poetry contest
sponsored by Joseph May...

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Furiously clacking away
At a tiny keyboard,
One parent computer-sentry,
The other a full time zone away.
When I manage to sneak a second,
Looking at all the contests
I would never have a chance
To enter, I wonder:
What is a blitz?
And thus spawned a small ditty,
Albeit a quick one,
On life, death, and the keeping of memories.
Almost a month later did I receive my first and only accolade.

3-7-2017
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/keep_my_memories_869924...

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