Short Hustling Poems

Hustling and bustling
Vain struggle for survival
Life is vanity....

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Traffic on avenue,
CROWDS flock to subway station,
yellow cabs hustling....

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In the California mines
There are 300,000
Native Americans hustling.
What type of verse
Could you possibly
Craft from that?
300,000 natives
Hustling in the
California mines....

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NOW AND THEN

Nothing has
changed in
Times Square.

Still bustling
for cabs
or hustling
the pedestrians.


7/7/21     Picture This 2 - 7 Lines Poetry
               Joseph May
Chosen Image:  #2...

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Humming Humbleness
 Harmony Heroism 
   Hustling Hesitancy
     Hugging Haziness
       Hopeful Hues
         Happy Haggles
           Howling Hurricanes
              Honey Hicks
                Hacked Heart...

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Flying Sailing Soaring
    Crying Laughing Roaring
 
  Itching Twitching Scratching
    Planning Plotting Hatching

  Hustling Bustling Tussling
    Day and night, night and day

  Set aside each segue for a kiss
    Recess, you can't afford to miss...

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Seedtime 
Sunny, showers  
Sowing, scattering, setting 
Shelter, shoots, hope, haul-in 
Hustling, heart-breaking, humbling  
Happy, handsome 
Harvest

FIRST PLACE WINNER
April 25, 2021
for "Spring or Summer Diamante Poem" Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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Striving and toiling 
Hustling and struggling 
All to make up
All to keep up
Urging to stand up
Never to hands up
Never to break up
And never to mess up.
To hit that glory score
To reach the glory shore
To behold my future store
Of riches and eternal allure 
In my glory shore........

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I look out the window
guy's hanging on corner
slinging nick's
look out's across street
drinking gin and juice
and double duce
screaming red dog
girl's turning trick's
to guy's to get their kick's
police rolling, coke a flowing
young boy's hustling gay's
so they can get their fix
is this a plaque?...

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Let the sun rest
Though it has no nest

Let the moon relax
Somehow busy all day on tracks 

Let the leave be still
Not until it becomes ill

Let the teeth shine
Only not when to dine

Let mercy abound
Cum moments, sin compound

Let the poor breath
provided when hustling seethe 
...

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A homeless man on the street today
was hustling for some food to eat
it was very cold outside
his gloves were full of holes
lonely sallow eyes
ask for mercy
there is none
he's a 
VET!




       Lets take a minute and think about all the Homeless Veterans in America
     and pray for them this Christmas Season..........

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Like a ghost I sit here
No one notices me
With their heads down, like they have somewhere to be
Hustling around like ants on a mound
Going in circles Around Around Around
Everyone like robots coded on path  
The villains designing their evil wrath 
There's a virus that spreads in the air. 
Electronics all they do is Tear Tear Tear
...

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While you battle with life like no tomorrow 
Hustling and bursting the streets and places 
Hoping for the fulfilment of acquisitions
The ordained course of life could be different 

Each chose a path to thread before now
In this current journey of earthly existence 
Known to the custodians above and the self 
The path which alone can satisfy and fulfil...

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Shimmering art seeing part
Glistening gold gilding bold
Painting colours perfecting ours

Tumbling steeple rumbling people
Twinkling touch sprinkling much
Bustling street hustling feet

Chattering fast scattering past
Shouting loud standing proud
Turning new burning few

Crying tears denying fears
Skipping high dipping sigh
Playing gnats straying rats...

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Beauty, I name you, my allure friend,
A reflection of the touch and works of the supreme one.
Amidst our bustling lives, we thrive,
And often disregard you in our hustling.

I plead with you, my friend with great charm,
We may cut down your honour, cause harm to you,
But remember your loyal friend, I implore,
Hold onto your wrath and your honour you should retain....

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rabbits leap across
loneliest graveled dirt roads
barely missing tires
~
possum shuffle past
the white lines along the curbs
hopes fill their belly
~
raccoon dart out from
beneath laurels and pine trees
hustling toward hills
~
bear lumber along
awaiting hibernation
along forest trails
~
deer travel quiet
sighing soft in the headlights
through misty night fog...

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The sun was setting
The breeze grew stronger
Hustling and bustling of people began
Animals rushed in-doors

Splashes of color
Entwine with night
Black engulfs all
As the shatter of glass echoes

Midnight skies
To dark to see
The purple branches appear
Sounds of bull whips not far behind

The sky lightens
A warm glow sooths all
The calm of the world
Has yet appeared agian....

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(This write inspired by a poem by Panagiota Romios, "The Magic of The Night")

Though we think of ourselves as singular, we are also communal, drawing from communal consciousness. The flip-side, we are also distracted by the hustling, the strife of a working day. At night they dream...we write!~ their sleeping dreams, fantasies our dawns for inspiration, tuneful-receptors-firing-poetic-alive!...

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Bright lights
Hustling bustling 
Going home to my throne
Much trash murderous monsters lives
Living 

Every
Blocks brimming with 
Broken bottles vacant scenes 
cast-aways haunted faces
Living

Empty 
lots that besiege 
The city's gutters filled 
With contaminates linked schemes 
City

Ghetto 
Grocery stores 
Apartment doors slamming 
People talking while walking, smiles
Scheme dreams...

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Her eyes whispered in carnal tones

Passion hustling across her tongue

How her soft breath sexes my bones

Hushed an ophidian had sprung


Her skin beheld a subtle spark

Emitting a glow of temptation

To this cadence languid I hark

In lucid fevers of elation


Flushed be her beloved cheeks

Tantamount yet quite divine

'Twas a lovely sight to seek

Upon my lips peaked was a sign...

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Everyone needs money
Everyone needs a dime
These dollar bills should be classified a crime
The last I read, money made man do time
These dollars should be reported as a first class crime
Mankind hustling all day long, just to make a dime
I tell you, money is a damn crime
Look at mankind
Hustling and bustling
Stealing and cursing
Just to make that dime
Money is a crime but mankind rather do time....

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Art like Monet 
It is like an alternate reality
Soft, vivid full of pureness
Unlike harsh reality
Raw and rough around the edges
Hustling for the next desire
Monet simply lies there
In its purest form
Of Watercolor Aesthetics
The waves of the water he paints
Immerses my eyes with clouds of subtle feeling
A feeling that is smoother than reality
Captured in a stroke 
The paint on the grand easel 
Monet...

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Dylan one word shy, defense strong
cutting base lines with intensity 
court time's hustling, miles spent
good times with assist, perfect jumper sent
dreams cemented building more to ascend
let your fondness speak to your reality
adorned fertile times tomorrows will be your charm
do diligent s, strive 
with smart hard work you will be devine
smile on your big game of life
best wishes, for your sublime tomorrow's...

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I tried to understand you
and why you hurt me so
But I couldn't be without you
I couldn't let you go
I knew you never loved me
though I tried to make it true
But you were just hustling
just "doing what you do"
Now I spend my time reflecting
how many years have passed
And how our relationship 
went way too fast
I miss every thing about you
every single day
And I'm still lost without you
no matter what I say...

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whirling with the wind 
Hustling with a swish
Spilling wills by the seconds 
Spinning wheels to alter wishes 
Selling each moments  
An instant at a time
Timing for the right moment 
Making each moment count
A Stride for every passing second
Shaping lives into phases 
Creating a face
To outlast each passing phase 
Making every action count
Damning the auction 
tickling with the dial 
a·midst this strife with time...

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