Short Hurrying Poems

Dark clouds, purple laced grays
 hurrying to the south
 blustery winds, chilled and cold like ice,
 winter's huff and puff....

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crack in gray city sidewalk
tiny flower face looks up
trampled by hurrying feet
beauty clings to life


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Lazy, carefree days from long ago…
       Haunt me when I am rushed.
Why can’t the world just slow down a little?
       It’s almost as if I’m being pushed....

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Patience is peace 
Hurrying to worry 
It’s like waring with the passing time 
God is with the one in patience 
Another name for God is Harry 
Then Harry is with the one in no hurry...

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Occupies My Mind

Many things in my mind it occupies;
Like cries from all of the Trump lies;
Constantly worrying,
While I am hurrying,
And America sure was not very wise.

Jim Horn...

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that simile of a smile 
in your knowing eyes
freezes whatever is left 
of my confidence.


i feel like a terrified 
exclamation point
hurrying off to the tip 
of a brave sentence!...

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So I rise out of my timid state;
Hurrying my creative slate;
Pondering my missions sake;
Witnessing my season break;


2/14/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2022...

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Hues of pink, yellow, red
  How sweet its nectar flows 
  Hovering above it
  Hummingbirds sweetly sip
  Honey bees can't resist
  Here comes a butterfly
  Hurrying for a taste!
            ~
 2/20/17...

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Our environment has programmed us not to think things out, the information onslaught has rampaged into our lives, hurrying us to the next task with no time to consider what it is what we are actually accomplishing....

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Our environment has programmed us not to think things out. The information onslaught has rampaged into our lives, hurrying us to the next task with no time to consider what it is what we are actually accomplishing....

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HABOOB

Harried sands joins forces,
Hurrying towards us,
Heavy with thud of hooves.
Horrified! Seek shelter!
Hampered sun does not shine.
Hope sought in praying hands,
Hapless in the storm’s core.

2/17/2017...

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Nineteen minutes until the end of the day.
This is Friday so I stare at the clock.
Hoping it will know how important hurrying is.
These nineteen minutes feel like nineteen hours.
Just like last Friday
And the Friday before....

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Strolling around town 
At prohibited time 
Ignoring the church bell sounds
While I see people hurrying 
Down the sidewalk
On their way to work 

Think maybe I'll find 
Pen and paper
And have a coffee somewhere 

Or maybe not...

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Teens Know It All
Miracle Man
4/26/2024

When I was a young lad hurrying to grow,
My intelligence hadn’t yet started to show.
But today I’m alive,
passed eighty-five,
and amazed at things that I didn’t know.
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The rest of the second graders saw that Millie was done.
At that age being the last to turn a page in is simply no fun.
So, they all scurried and hurried to turn their pages in.
They got plenty of answers wrong too; this was not a win....

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Hurrying steps
Passed by his side
For rolling stones
He stepped aside



He under played himself
Helping others prove themselves
He gave up his roles
Making happy depressed souls



Is he a loser?
Or owns goodness 
galore?...

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I Run; Panting; Rushing to be on time.
My cart's wheel screaming clicketty clack
Hurrying through darkened city streets and alleys. 
Gnawing Hunger outweighing my fear of red-eyed rats
as scents of tonight's meal fills the midnight garbage bins....

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More Sand Please
By
Tom Wright

A man whose sole existence was from the land,
Found his years were hurrying through his hand.
As he fought aches and pains,
He had constant weight gains,
But prayed daily for his hourglass, more sand.
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I moved through bushes
in the morning it was
stepping on grass
hurrying to till my garden
grass cried silently
its tears made me wet
birds jumped tree to tree
none greeted me that morn
as I scattered their beds
and disturbed their sleep
that wet early morning...

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Icy northwesterly winds whip
Like a buggy whip cracks,
Hurrying the horses along
Dragging winter on its back.

Green leaves battered to the brown earth
Instant early death befalls.
Tender young fruit most likely gone
Spring unsettled appalls.  

Unfinished...

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Some quiet time
no talking
no hurrying
no running
no appointments made for next milions of weeks
just sitting 
taking pleasure in sitting
peace and quiet
maybe with ice tea or nice cup of hot coffee 
looking at the sea 
and some love...
These are the deepest ones....

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way off into the distance
the purr of traffic
the endless flow of people 
hurrying and scurrying
busy with their lives
going forward
making plans
moving steadily 
charging ahead
not looking back
never questioning or hesitating
not slowing down for regrets



posted on July 28, 2022...

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Suddenly she is there,
her young face in the hurrying crowd.

I spin into a forty year old whirlpool
recall how we were
and how time has tested us both.

There she is 
emblazed upon in a strangers form

and I struck high and low,
a moonbeam washed over
the edge of a timeless waterfall....

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Hurrying towards an alley.
Chill air urges no dilly dally.
Breath beneath cape rising.
Inside a woman, in anguish, was writhing.
The husband tried to wipe the beads of sweat,
All in vain, a condition which she tried to forget.
Childbirth pains suddenly revived.
Cape off, the nurse has arrived....

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I'm watching you age
into wiser smiles, measured steps.
(Your lines look beautiful)

Gravity of life reshaped
our foolish expenses of energy
(Oh, the hurrying we did together)

wasted vanity of emotions.
I love our becoming...
more vast of vivid moments

(Our expanding normal bits)
gnarled with experiences....

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