Short Scheduled Poems

The wedding was scheduled for three
But the groom took off for a pee
How the bride's bra strap
Got caught on my lap
Remains a complete mystery . . . ....

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Cat’s shots were scheduled at noon today
Shark stayed out of sight, completely away.
Came prancing back home at five o’clock
Vet’s office closed for the day and duly locked....

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I tried to introduce myself to Cherry
 
but then she introduced me to Harry
 
who give me the stink eye 
 
while signaling me to say goodbye
 
because they are scheduled to marry....

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Scheduled to have a blood sample taken
A big sissy I've become, sweating and shakin'
It's just not right
It's Dracula like
Ain't human to stick a needle into someone's bacon...

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Scheduled to have a blood sample taken
A big sissy I've become, start sweating and shaking
It's just not right
It's  Dracula like
It ain't human to stick a needle into someone's bacon...

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Scheduled to have a blood sample taken
A big sissy I've become, start sweating and shakin'
It's just not right
It's  Dracula like
It ain't human to stick a needle into someone's bacon...

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Formations fly, two vees silhouetted 
against a leaden sky, winging their way
to warmer climes, according to flight plan
scheduled by nature, primal instinct, geese
programmed, heed the call when leaves turn then fall....

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Scheduled to have a blood sample taken
A big sissy I become, start sweating and shaking
It's just not right
It's  Dracula like
It ain't human to stick a needle into someone's bacon


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Knowing the answer,
excuses imbue

The right thing for others,
 never following through

A feigned double standard,
the past in pursuit

Reckoning scheduled
—payment en route

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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M-arvelous
A-uthor
R-ightfully
I-mplements
E-xcellent
N-atal
E-xpression's
L-iterary
L-ines

O-n
S-cheduled
I-ndividual
O-ccasion

Topic: Birthday of Sis. Marienell M. Osio (January 22)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Had an argument with the floor and the floor won
A rematch is scheduled, this time I'll be packing a gun
Not taking any chances
Won't end up on the canvass
Pump some slugs in it's under belly and watch all the fun...

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I'm a bit concerned about the medical profession
Though I understand the importance of each scheduled session
But in the back of my mind
Can't help questioning it, I find
Mostly affects those most vulnerable on pension...

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TV

television needs
looking
at

the remote
control of
reason
has slipped
behind the
sofa of
sanity
as we view
we pay the 
price

the walking
wounded
watch scheduled
wars
victims of
a messy
TV
O-D
 



© Kim van Breda...

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Passed this week by slow
like honey poured out
Monday over oats
and figs, milk, bowl
of mixed up fruit with.

Tuesday drinking
I two coffees
by day making
way for scheduled

busy time.
Busy week
came Friday

at last
catching

breath....

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A journey landing in December
Road to the Moon of wonder
Trip of four to remember
East of Eden fonder
Milestone is in the offing
Instilled dream becomes a happening
Strobe lights showing and playing

Second-scheduled mission, but first crewed......

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Young, middle-aged, old...
What does it matter?
Member of the club.
Plan improvement for
our community.

Volunteer time.
Make a new friend.
Meetings scheduled.
Decisions made.

Get onboard
raising funds.
Reaching goals.

Job done.
Thank you.

Helped....

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Season end
Baseball bats will soon be quiet.
As football season takes a kick
Golf ball will be put away so a president can go to work.
 Hockey sticks will soon hit the puck
And baseballs will go in the net.
The summer season is scheduled to end.
Hello winter let it begin....

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I have an unusual job
All I have to do is lob
On their doorstep once a week
And then I go to bed for a sleep

Every two hours I am woken up
I take their tablets in their scheduled sup
For I now make my living
Testing drugs in their measured vision.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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the eternal board is flashing
white letters on dark screen
destinations departures arrivals
scheduled greens
expected reds
delayed blues
frisking ffor the security of the
masses
collect your valuables he said
we forget though
life is the most valuable
we forget to collect...

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I am intolerant of people who make a meeting last two extra hours.
Asking inane questions that pertain to only them.
And of the leaders of the meeting who allow them to take over.
Commandeering the rest of us.
Some think I am rude when I leave at the scheduled time.
Half of the other participants follow me out....

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Duration
David J Walker

What sway does Indian Summer hold
Over the seasons scheduled departure
The meekness of the solstice told
Far less bold than cold or harder
I would have said my goodbyes
By now but still await its invitation 
Coaxing to the ground the canopies
Of  yellow,  red, and brown 
Challenging the summer duration...

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Today as any day,
No more, No less.
Programmed obliqueness.
Awakening,
Shower to clean,
Breakfast to UN-fast.
PC and Poetry, for the mind,
Wal-Mart to refurbish,
Then we dine.
PBS,
PC and Poetry,
Card game and munch.
Supper,
TV,
Then, bedtime.
Today as any day,
No more, No less,
Scheduled obliqueness.
Silently, more or less....

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The second time I remember we meet. Looking at you upon my visit.
Rotted black encrusted feet. No longer lustrous and standing.
Nasal gastric tube in your nare. No running scheduled feedings.
Seeing you abandoned in the nursing home showed that the staff no longer had 
any cares.
Balled in a fetal position. Shocked that you were ravaged....

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Charlie
Likes listening to music by Bob Marley.
He has scheduled time that mustn't delay
His passionate phase with Reggae!

Lola
Is fascinated with panels - Solar.
Science is full of projects that (for her) are fun.
And she has a smile that beams like the sun!


Written 16th September 2021
For the Cleritoons contest - Sponsor Joseph May...

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In other years, my plans today
Would’ve been postponed or scratched,
The snowstorm making travel tough,
The cancel texts dispatched.

But since we’re in pandemic mode,
No disappointments loom
For meetings had been scheduled
To happen via Zoom.

So we can meet, ensconced within
The safety and, no doubt,
The comfort of our dwellings
With no need to venture out....

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