Short Tardiness Poems

Time escapes my mind
All the clocks show the same time
Still, I will be late....

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Punctuality

Punctuality,
Responsibilities friend,
Abhors tardiness.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    1/ 5/ 2008...

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Blame not the gale, or the inhospitable sea-gulf, or friends’ tardiness,
mariner! Just man’s foolhardiness.
 
—Leonidas of Tarentum, translation by Michael R. Burch...

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It’s said tomorrow never comes
Believe me it’s so true
I’ve got a massive list
Of jobs I’ve got to do...
Tomorrow!


I should not put off jobs
Until a rainy day
Unfortunately my tardiness
will just add to the delay


I promise I will get them done ...
Tomorrow!

6/2/19...

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Here lies Deadline Devonshire, tardiness she did abhor
     Her editor will tell you, "She was never late before"

Her sister laid claim to the gene pool’s beauty and brains
     Carolyn took credit for writing verse that’s inane

Believed in reincarnation; wasn't Cleopatra
     She merely adopted "been there, done that" as her mantra

She was the first to acknowledge her imperfection
     But writing her own epitaph?  Too much self-reflection!...

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Her puffy face,
Bears no grace,
Her look; stolid, vacant,
And expression absent.

Malar flush, 
Contrasting yellowish tint,
Of velvety skin,
Resembling a peach,

Flabby tongue,
Thickened and broad,
Tardiness of speech,
And sluggish to respond.

Her dry, coarse skin,
Has elasticity lost,
And covers underneath,
Lots of subcut fat,

Swelling of the face,
And swelling of the limbs,
But waterlogged they are not,
Apply pressure, yet pit they not....

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