Short Hourly Poems

passion
for fifty years
rekindled every day
stoking sensuous fire hourly
love nest...

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Foot
Willing
Appendage
Gets a workout
Hourly sometimes
Takes me places
Walking or
Running
Foot...

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my emotions whirl, twirl, and tumble me
I am at their mercy hourly
never knowing what they will bring to me
their dubious gifts popping up in unexpected ways...

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President Trump, also known as the Donald
Has been in the news, since McDonald’s Ronald
He refused his salary
While still working hourly
He has business sense, though his skin is mottled...

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Jane's moods were troubling; they drove her insane
They shifted hourly, in sunshine or rain
     Her doc gave her a pill
     He said go home and chill
~ Climbed in the freezer, got ice on the brain...

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Flummoxed foxes fleeing, fumbling forward from furious
Hurried heaving hounds howling hourly hitherto

Stop

Withered weathered wild woods would weep when
Man made memories murdering many mammals 

Stop...

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We are dying in buckets, boats, and buildings.
Dying daily, hourly by two’s and three’s.
I resolve to live today for the rest of us.
Especially if I am one of the last to be taken.
If I do not do this, who will?...

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honeybees in sun
hover through hours like honey
red gold and green blooms

faceted stained fields
fragrant like fumed fantasies
flaunting like fashions

hypnotizing hum
hot high noon activities
plum hourly humdrum...

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A
sigh
summer
stars shiver
in fear on coldest
night as voices echo in bleak
emptiness looking for refuge as birds congregate
in hush sandalwood violating hourly the dawning of flight in white lace of light

1/19/2024...

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This reindeer was almost too prancy-dancy,
Way too eager to look pretty and fancy.
I did not know what to tell my neice Lancy.

I doubted that he had any interest in her.
Too pretty, too neat, organized, too pure.
This reindeer hourly combed up his fur!...

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I sit in front
hourly of all the
blank and empty 
power while the
steamy streets
drip ice.
I have to look
for things to do
with optics, audio,
word, and eyes 
past the white curtain.
Aging way beyond
uselfulness, the jokes
I play on myself
keep me alive
instead of money....

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the color of Darkness
is only in the state of mind
where tunnels of light are never kind
it slithers through your fingers and doesn't make a sound
it wants to stay and play forever 
but it is only hourly bound
for those who see and those who don't
for those who pretend and others who won't...

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Dented Aluminum 

once, kick the can was a lovely
game to play, but not nowadays

as shiny cellphones and prized
handheld games govern the day, 

what a heavy price we will pay,
dented aluminum decays away

our alumni cry out their tired eyes
as hourly the ozone melts, always

1-4-18...

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Kids who rarely come to school during most weeks are here this week.
A week of field trips, a week of field days, a week of good-byes and high fives.
Teachers who never call in sick are calling in hourly this week.
A week of field trips, a week of field days, a week of good-byes and high fives....

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She is way too symmetrical to play the violin.
Her circles are even, there are no mistakes.
She is not a flexible thinker.
The arguments arrive on an hourly basis.
In notes, texts and emails.
Yet here she is, playing the violin flawlessly.
Which means hundreds of people do not know everything....

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Awesome beauty chilled, 
Definite effort forgives, 
Generating hourly igloos, 
Just kidding lovely maker, 
Nor'easter operating possible quiet rightful snow, 
Thoughtfully underneath, 
Very wonderful,
X-cited young zealot

Russell Sivey

Entrant into yasmin khan's "SNOW ABC" contest

3/10/2012...

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Books are indeed work insatiably
For those who think hourly;
Hours are not fit in humorously
In the timeframe of honoree
Of books as they work icily
In the warm world’s ivory.
Books really slog matchlessly
For those who value immensely.
Hence friends! Value the ministry
Who control the Money’s mockery....

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Books are indeed work insatiably
For those who think hourly;
Hours are not fit in humorously
In the timeframe of honoree
Of books as they work icily
In the warm world’s ivory.
Books really slog matchlessly
For those who value immensely.
Hence friends! Value the ministry
Who control the Money’s mockery....

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My job brings new ideas to me on an hourly basis
Sometimes up to six ideas an hour
I cannot retire
This is a forest of situations

A plethora of circumstances
A jungle of characters
If I retired, I would not have anything to write about.

So here I stay,
at a job I love,
making great money,
writing myself crazy....

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We see each other as the day passes by
Down aisles apart as ones laughter throws
Customers chattering colleagues nattering
Melding the days business in hourly grow

Then its the next day, like the day before
The same attributes, others I'm sure espy
For every other day, we know what's in store 
She's the Lady with the Smile in her Eyes...

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Lost in a moment we once did share

Lost beyond any whim and care

Lost in the fabric of forgotten time

Lost is our clocks hourly chime

Lost in a map searching for you 

Lost looking in an ocean of blue

Lost in the faith I did shun

Lost with a gaze upon the horizon

Lost without your spiritual glow

Lost is my heart to a dark shadow...

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Overspending the bulk
  of my temporal capital
 
Hourly deficits climb
  and pile into notes

Debts I’ll never repay
  stored in vaults I can’t find

Words lying uncashed,
  as I write overdrawn  
   
Pledging to go back 
  and re-sign what’s untendered

 I’m unforgiven—overdue,
   my fate unsecured 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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Dragons of despair and desolate
Spoil. You slay them over and over,
dying daily;  resurrecting hourly.
Fire up as you fall down, none of your 
Dragons can see you.

If you don’t like them, you should leave them alone.
Stay out so they can’t come in to. Stay out too long and you
lose your way in. Your dragons of despair really don’t care.
   _    _     _

jdzoller - copyright (C) 2012...

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I like getting up insanely early
Why people ask me?
Because I love going to Wal-Mart when there are no shoppers.
It is Covid.
Wal-Mart is locked.

No problem.
I go to the bakery.
A sign says “closed; cannot afford to pay hourly wage.”

Okay.
What about a pharmacy?
A sign on the door says
“Computers down. Come by later.”

Okay, maybe getting up early is not working out today....

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The chambermaid of the tavern her name Marie 
Alluring captivating fair maiden all would agree 
Smiling flirting undoubtedly her majored degree 
Scurrying making the rounds not missing a knee
Many a fool who has sat on a stool including me
Envisioned her with enchanted dreams of fantasy 
In no way am I saying she charges by an hourly fee
Just peddling spirits of seduction be her pedigree....

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