Short Overworked Poems

A hectic morning
 Squirrels collecting acorns
  Neverending spin ....

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Over medicated
Overwhelmed
Overindulging 
Overworked
Over  this poem...

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life is so plain Jane 
living to work -overworked 
where's spontaneous...

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Overworked and stressed 
unpaid bills piling to sky 
lack of sleep daily...

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Client 9 Governor Spitzer
Was once New York’s ethics blitzer
This VIP flub
At the Emperor Club
Came from an overworked spritzer...

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"Run and play tag", they said.
"Go fetch the ball", they said.
"Go and get groomed, he said"
"Run with me to the mall", she said.

one day I said "no"
and then I was dead...

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overworked cog in capitalism’s ever-quickening pace 
bastard son of middle class
dressed in proper trappings
yet blinded 
by economy’s firestorm
little chance to tie my proper shoes....

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Mediterranean’s melancholy melodious megaphone
Notoriously navigated Neptune’s neutrality zone.
Overladen, overworked, and overthrowing Orion’s own,
Permitted planet Pluto to persecute Perry’s corn-pone....

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LEAVING THE PASSENGERS BEHIND

chartreuse
                  caboose 
footloose 
                  vamoose

The overworked     chartreuse caboose     spun,
ran off the track    footloose     vamoose     done.

1/18/2018...

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Stop it!
I’m exhausted by you
Always complaining, never supporting yourself
Stop it!
I’m overworked by you
Never being grateful, but expecting the help
Really!
I know it’s not your fault
Now pick yourself up, I will see you on the twelfth...

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Money can be a curse too
Whenever the man 
Becomes greedy
Overworked 
Stuggles for a living
Snatches for more 
Begs to make ends meet
Bribes for tne utmost 
Steals for easy going 
But still can't possess it
Forever 
(because he will die one day )...

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Old overworked aged heart,
Beating bravely without stopping;
Controlling carefully the rhythm of life,
The terminally ill man holding on dearly,
Amid an attack which can end in tears.
 
Weeping wife beside his bed,
Holding his hands tightly;
Wearily waiting the bad news....

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underway replenishment
is never much amusement

for ships at sea
it’s great to see

the ship and crew will get some strength
and be able to go the length

unreps I have worked 
never overworked

unreps are a must
for a sailor’s trust

keeps the navy afloat
much more than a tug boat...

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Crawl out from your crevice, young one. 
The atmosphere rains a vomitous path  
divulged, displayed before you in  
christening malaise, ending between  
your pointless therapy sessions and  
my overworked kidneys. 
  
Tally the score, or be a bore. 
Our favorite whore is no more....

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In K-5, K-8 or K-12 is drained
    the curiosity from eager brains

  Then off to college most folks go
    where Truth is disseminated from Moscow

  A nursing home's a spruced-up jail
    from which residents would love to bail ...

  In between, we're on the job every day
    where we're overworked and underpaid...

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My mother, a simple life, a simple face
Old before her time, overworked and burdened
Living a life she never complained about,
Lightening our load while bearing hers
Innocent, free of envy, malice or regrets
Every year, her rose blooms again in spring





note: for some reason I cannot bold the first letters..sorry...

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Politics in the USA on a downward spiral
Overworked anthems saturated with denial
 Contemplating this stalling and lobbying
 Makes me wonder why things are happening
 All we have left is a vote counted right
 Constituents unite to kindle their light
 Learn about who is the correct candidate
 Those making every choice for each state...

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A wall of Jacobean era lattice-windows
line my dorm room - my private eyes.

How many freshmen have watched
the gilt harvest moon from this seat?

I keep them open, for cool breezes,
and the comforting the sounds of life,
in overworked, needy moments.

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.
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the university opened in 1706 - I guess I'm not unique...

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Acrostic:

A Cowboy Is

Alert

Courageous
Objective
Wise
Brave
Overworked
Youthful

Important
Scholar  
 

Limerick:

There once was a cowboy name Joe.
Who took his girlfriend to a show.
The lights were turned low.
Her lips he did blow.
It just goes to show Joe did go!!!!


*For Tirzah Conway's "A Cowboy Is" contest...

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The human antonym 

Buddhist, but maleficent 
Losing,but triumphant
Home, but astray
Articulate, but nothing to say

Achieving,but no ambition 
Trusting, but full of suspicion 
Cold hearted, but devoted 
Political, but never voted 

Lazy, but overworked
Level headed, but berserk
Lacks talent, but a numen 
All of the above- a human...

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Nurses defeat death, determined and brave,

        seems strange, they're overworked and underpaid.

Some front-line workers died, when things got grave

        each risked their lives, despite being afraid.

Honk your horns! Applaud! And cheerfully wave!

        Kind acts are more heartfelt, when they’re homemade.


(Harrisham Rhyme)


05/03/2020...

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Old age once seemed like some distant destination on some horizon uncharted. Yet, just as one step in front of the other will take you thousands of miles if you keep walking, my old age arrived and caught me quite unaware. 

bones grating together,
muscles achingly overworked, 
bladder slightly overactive,
eyelids heavy and blinking,
yet never able to find restful peace
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My back aches from all the people that have stabbed me,
I’m falling fast, I just need someone to grab me,
My face frowns from all the people that have laughed,  
My mind is under pressure, overworked & under staffed,
My heart is shattered from all the times that it’s been broke,
My words are silenced from all the times that I’ve choked,
My body’s cold from the death that I feel inside,
6 ft under or spread my ashes is fear I’m trying to hide....

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At one point in my life, I had much love to yield
And now my heart; is a fallowed field

That has been overworked and sadly underfed,
It is now a place in which to bury the dead

Feelings relegated to dank shadowed tombs,
Oh, how I wish I had never left the womb

Warm and safe; I was never unprotected
Until cruelly expelled into a world so neglected

At one point in my life, I had much love to yield
And now my heart; is a fallowed field....

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Where have you gone?
My friend of many moons
They have taken you away!

How could they?

I cannot live without your presence
My heart, oh how it aches!
Oh, my mind, overworked in worry!

For where has my knight in shining armor gone?

In troubles, you save me
How am I to save you?
For I cannot fend for myself!

I am no savior, I am not brave!
Watashi ni modori masu! Aishi te i masu! *

((*Translation of Japanese romanization: Return to me! I love you!))...

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