Short Part Time Poems

only part-time
darting in and out
of shadows
her thoughts
languish unbidden
turning
suicidal...

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make a start
its not hard
its money time
christmas lines
shopping  be odd
get this 
PART TIME JOBS...

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Alexander Borodin
chemist by profession
Member of the 'Mighty Handful' five
composed part-time & did not strive...

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i feel so alone
my lover never home
this can't go on
i know its wrong
my feeling is over other
got fine you see a
PART TIME LOVER...

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Customs man Henri Rousseau
part-time gave painting a go
Great detail was his particular thing
with child-like eyes he did bring...

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Once I had a part-time lover,
Never again! 
For when he did not love
It was hate
A love-hate man
Never again,
Never never 
again....

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Victor Pasmore ursued art part-time 
it suited circumstance just fine
From the figurative to the abstract
his sensitive line are an actual fact...

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Have you seen the part time plumber?
He plumbs in winter and a pop-star in summer
During a plumbing job, he will thrust out his spanner
Singing into it “Copacabana”...

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No..., please don't call me lazy.
Good pay; don't think I'm crazy.
My first part-time job in life.
Simply to drop neighbour's wife.


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doubtful
hopeful
wistful
willful
there lives a doubtful, hopeful darkness
in her wistful, willful mind of gloominess.


July 3, 2019
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner...

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Full time poet,
part time novelist

Full time storyteller,
part time bard

The difference greater
than words will imply

Hemispheric divergence
—the why and the how

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Life
life is it the great illusion,
death the change, who waits for all,
coming going, loving, fusion,
part time life, encounters gall,
spirit leaves and death enthralls?

Don Johnson

thank you Debbie Duncan...

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few step into their world
most just orbit

loners are never lonely

social
part-time sociopaths
must mix and mingle

but loners

they never have to find themselves
for they are not lost

while the many
are too many...

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A part-time poet.

Sounds like an oxymoron-

Poets work full time.

Capturing life in their minds-

Freeing it with chosen words.


July 1, 2019

Contest: Part-Time Poet
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
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So glad, so happy, enthralled to have a job! Chortling as I choke back words.  The verse part of my garden absurdly lacking. But so thrilled, tickled, absolutely agog.

bouquet of part-time
bloomed into three full days -
my garden suffers

3/20/2019...

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You're a rose
beautiful in every sense
and yet so much more
 A part time doctor
part time cook
even a father
 Raising three boys
you are strong
refusing to hide your thorns
 Believing you can do the impossible
even stop time
able to see through me
 Your eyes could search my soul
seeing truth
detecting lies...

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My heart's renderings are shaded
in poetic images and creativity
yet, my mind languishes in the scrub of sad dirges
thus...I am a part-time poet
for the bell tolls not for my words
from thought in celebration
rather it tolls for graffiti I place before the public
I have called poetry

7/6/19
contest Part-Time Poet...

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Bonarda?Twenty eight ripples 
counted , flow? actually, 
rain drops spare spaces.
?Newcastle darkened by windows,
shut,? a longing for short rope.
?Growing window boxes fell?, 
by taxis and the lost echoes?
Part time clocks between dead towers?Tick, 
through the eroded scraggy day?
Arrows flew blistered stray crows...

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These are prostitutes or obedient opportunists.
Half of the world’s so called ‘scientists,’
who work for the military, part-time at least,
and many more for profits within industries,
that pollute, poison, and destroy the environment irreversibly.
These are not scientists. 
These are prostitutes or obedient opportunists....

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Is when mission impossible takes place
Is when control of the mind is a effort
Is when sharpening of the pencil is a chore

Is where there is a pause
Is where there is to be continued
Is where there is a yield sign

Is when creativity becomes a sleeping duck
Is when the taste buds becomes numb
Is when the eyes becomes unfocused...

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7/2/2019



First I thought I was a writer,
But that took way too much time and effort as a fighter.
As a fighter for time both day and night,
All of those words I needed were just out of sight.
As a poet I have now become,
I will be known as a short writer's drum.
Drumming out words of joy,
And having all kinds of fun with my new toy....

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Paula was a college sophomore;
She was a baller!
And part-time to pay for college she was a roof installer;
She was quite athletic ;

Also this pretty prophetic;
She even had a high mind, fluential and academic;
So she was awesome and poetic;
So is Paula,
The college sophomore;

7/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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They are what they've learned, 
and they've learned so much 
from their pastors and teachers 
when mom wasn't there, 
and dad was defining himself. 

And some are loved part time, 
by aunts and uncles distant and suspect, 
from the back of a hand 
to the stroke of a cheek, 
confusion curdling self-respect. 

They are what they're used to, 
it stems from regard or neglect....

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Prophetess
Miracle Man
4/20/2024

My wife said, Honey, hearing aids will change your life,
She was right, they did. Now I’m 5 grand poorer and have to take a part time job, and still can’t hear!. She said it’s only temporary. “cheer up, it could be worse”. I cheered up, and again, things got worse! I lost the part time job. Does this make her a prophetess???
Tom
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Can you love this part time man?
Only seeing me when you can,
Stealing moments in the night,
Knowing what we are doing is not right.

Can you love this part time man?
Who loves you as no one else can,
Taking love on the run,
Two souls love as one.

Can you love this part time man?
No one loves better than we can,
Out time together is never long,
What feels so good seems so wrong....

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