Short Overslept Poems

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My Cluttered Mind

My cluttered mind
Overslept
Late for work again
Let go
Kids to feed
Bills to pay
Tired, so tired
What to do? 
Why me?
Disappointing them again
Repeat
What’s the matter with me?
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Premium Member Timing Is Everything, Zelda

Zelda, that tired old witch, she overslept
No surprise, with the late hours she kept
  Panicked, Zelda grabbed her broom
  Off to scare children she'd zoom
Stores sold out of 'B-r-e-w-m-e-t-h-a-n-o-l' ~ she wept
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Part 2 Fully Booked

Fate intervened on this day I overslept... missed my train. Find out about the rail crash - Not a soul survived. 7,7,7,5 checked with how many syllables Book Chosen Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coehlo Contest Part 2 Fully booked Sponsor Nette Onclaud 06~23~16
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I Have a Headache

I have a headache because I overslept. 
I overslept because I did not want to wake up. 
I did not want to wake up because there is little here that I enjoy. 
There is little here that I enjoy because what is here is fake and I am real. 
Am I real?  
Is Alchemy real?
I have a headache because I overslept.

Premium Member Meeting Attendees

Meeting Attendees
They arrive at seven.
The morning early birds.
Hoping for donuts probably.
There are none.

Two slide in the back visibly late at 7:40.
This meeting ends at 7:45.
One says she overslept.
The other makes some inane excuse about going back home for her lunch.
Same two every week, same excuses.


What does it look like

It's always a battle,
Everyday is,
Always a battle,
Between life and death,

I forgot something,
I didn't check before leaving,
I didn't look before going,
Everyday's like this,

I didn't eat,I overeat,
I overslept, I under slept,
I haven't moved, yet I'm so tired,
Always like this, everyday is,


Incase you're asking,
What depression looks like,
It is like this,
Everyday is,

The Bustle

Quickly wake up, shower and shimmy
You're late for work and kids for school!
Eventually arriving, settling into the routine
Suddenly you realise you forgot something at home!
All's a mess, again you overslept!
Traffic's just crazy, your hairs a disaster
Barely time to breathe, let alone eat!
Afternoon pickups, late for hockey practice
Its  homework and laundry, then off to bed
Awaiting the bustle that's sure to aggravate!

The Future Is Beyond

This trauma, I promise to remember. 

I wonder if in December…

By the time presents arrive. 

If I will still feel deprived. 

Of a better past year.

Renewal of the past is what I fear. 

But for now, the present has captured us all. 

In a photo, that I will bind to this wall. 

So when I enter the year and beyond. 

I can look back at a treatment that I am fond. 

Unlike the times I overslept. 

In that dingy delirium that I left.
Form: Rhyme

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