Six Times Poems | Examples

I Knew I would not find a close parking space

I did not anticipate finding a parking space
I rarely find one at this location
Because the restaurant’s food is from outer space
It is very popular during spring vacation

I was ready to walk a mile or two
Wait! Could it be? I looked six times too
There were two ready spaces open for me to park
What a lark! I mean what a lark!

I was debating which one to use
When in squeezed a car wearing saddle shoes
A teeny tiny truck pulled into the other space
I lost the race; I lost the race!

Ugly Plastic Fern

Doctor’s office
The fern in the corner is plastic
They couldn’t afford silk?
There is nothing refreshing about it

There is a candy jar
The old guy has been up there six times
I know because he brings the wrapper to me
I am sitting next to the wastepaper basket

That fern is disturbing
Anything that ugly should not be shared
I would be doing them a solid
If I put it into the wastepaper basket with these wrappers

I used to drive like that

Driver on interstate has pressed his accelerator hard
I used to drive like that – daily
To and from work with gritted teeth
Expecting death at any minute
Racing here, there, nowhere really
The stress was gruesome
In the last nine months I have driven six times
Less than one time per month
Retirement is a happy unicorn that I am grateful to lie on

The Lady of the Night

The Lady of the Night

Alone, Luna dominates the sky,
glowing from Sol’s reflected light.
Her mares, dark blotches set
against the white light.
She is the queen of the night sky,
full face proudly displayed.

Strange things are said to happen
when she rides her chariot across the sky.
Wolves utter 
lonesome cries.
Cursed individuals take the
form of the werewolf.
Humans go stark raving
mad.

We have physically touched her face
six times.
We have found her to be a harsh mistress
with no room for error.
She attracts our attention like no 
other night figure.
We will return, she is that gilded
lady that beckons us.
We cannot stay away.

Close

I count the birds at my feeder,
watch them arrive only to disappear,
they are a happenstance,
they flicker in and out, die and return.

People overhear other lives,
I imagine where they go and why?
The flush of a toilet brings visuals
as if every wall
were an opaque plasma screen.

People have died in the close,
dead neighbors,
three, four, six times removed.
The living wait for the mail,
stay to become known,
remodel a restless silence.

Some sit on porches smoking,
without seeing I see them
the way a mother duck
sees her brood behind her back.

I'm happy to be inside this close,
as if I were a life inside a life,
something born each day
to be close.

full of eager happiness

I am full of eager happiness
Retirement has grabbed me by the hands and danced with me

Every day is a joy
I can do what I want, when I want
I have eliminated all of the have-to’s,
My life is full of have-tos.

The worst part of my job had been the drive to and from.
I retired six months ago.
My car has only been out of the garage six times in seven months.

Enthusiasm and excitement parade in my mind daily
I am a painter, a poet, a dreamer, a schemer
My life is full of exuberant joy.

Words twirl and whirl toward me in my dream state.
Cartoons insist on being put down on canvases.
My hobbies have become my life.
Retirement is a God-send.

the alps called my name

the mountains call my name
I hear, but am fearful about responding
they come to me in dreams
demanding to be heard

I keep dreaming of them, I complain
you are meant to go, they want you.
is this possible? I turn in for another restless night
the alps are demanding.

I must have lived there in another lifetime.
I always had an affinity for the book Heidi.
Knowing I have to go, I booked the trip.
It was an experience of a lifetime.

I felt like I was finally home.
I have been back six times since.
Cannot get enough of them.
They make me feel beloved.

driving to an unfamiliar place

it is always terrifying to follow MapQuest
the guide’s voice might stop talking halfway there
or you might hear “turn there” after you have blown by an alleyway
if your phone rings while you are trying to follow, do you answer it?
Not if you have no idea where you are heading
I narrowly escape a panic attack every time I drive somewhere new
or somewhere I have not been for awhile
I am not the person who remembers how they got here the last six times
driving anywhere unfamiliar is a daymare for me
is it my age?
hello yes
I am also a small town girl
that doesn’t help me much

Shelly falls in love six times a day

Shelly came running in with her heart on both sleeves
I am in love again! She yelled. Nothing new at Family Reunion McVees.
Shelly is always in love, she can fall in love six times a day.
She is an intense admirer too most men run swiftly away.
She catches some on the fly and hugs them way way too hard.
She has caught a TV repairman, a cowboy and a prison guard.
I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! She yells to each one.
Being chased by our cousin Shelly is not incredibly fun.

Grandpa Knew What to Say

Grandpa Elephant had a new lady friend on line.
He invited her to meet him at Scarsdales to dine.
Dressed up in his Sunday best along with his Derby hat.
Don’t you look spiffy! His grandchildren said, so phat!

Grandpa was given six or eight pieces of advice.
From youngsters he was older than six times twice.
I am ninety-six he told his grandson Roy.
I know what to do, so leave me alone little boy.

One Up Martha

No matter what story we have to tell
Including stories about sometimes landing in hell
One-Up Martha can easily one up it and does with glee
Her friends are slim, maybe non-existent if you ask me.

Why does she always do that? Another friend says.
She needs the extra attention says my Aunt Inez.
But it’s so annoying! I can hardly stand her at all.
Maybe that’s why she has no friends, says Paul.

I decide to try again, so I give Martha another chance.
“I know how to ballet, waltz, and watusi,” she says when I tell her I dance.
“Been diagnosed with six ailments,” she throws in two.
I finally give up trying after she one-ups me six times, wouldn’t you?

Coming and Going

  Why did God tell Moses, ‘Come to Pharaoh?’
    Shouldn’t He have told him to ‘Go?’

  Was Moses afraid to go?
    I don’t think so

  Pharaoh was extremely arrogant, you know
    Told folks he created the Nile River, and so

  Telling Pharaoh just once, ‘Let My People Go’
    Moses would return with nothing to show 

  G-d knew Moses would have to come back again and again
    Maybe five or six times, perhaps even ten

  So, when G-d told Moses ‘Come,’ 
    Moses understood it would be quite a long run

  Ten Plagues over almost a year ~ before Pharaoh was done



     _____________________________________
     Exodus 10:1 - 13:16 is the Torah portion read
     in synagogues this Saturday (Sabbath) morning.
     It includes the last three of the ten plagues, as
     well as the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. I see
     that the word 'Bo' is translated into English as
     'Go' in many Bibles. This is shockingly incorrect. 
     Any Israeli child knows that 'Bo' means 'Come.' 
     ... Hence, this poem.

Poetic Critique

commentator wrote a critique that was six times longer than the poem itself
He demanded the poet explain her intentions
the critique sounded irritated and annoyed
Frustrated and insane
She laughed when she read it

She had spent six seconds penning her six lines
he had spent possibly an hour rewriting his critique
She stared at the poem
Not remembering it

When had she written it?
She looked at the date
One a.m. this morning.
She laughed even harder.

Her one a.m. self
and her four-thirty in the afternoon self
did not recognize each other.
She wrote back these three words
“get over yourself.”

Whoops

Bob is a grown baby
Spoiled rotten by two doting parents
They do not get along well
Have been divorced for years

Agree on only one thing
Bob should be coddled and supported
At forty, he has never held a job
His parents pay for his housing, food, medical bills

Bob will call his daddy and ask him to bring him a hamburger
No big deal, for daddy only lives three towns away.
His mommy will meet him in emergency rooms
To yell at the nurses who are never good enough

Bob uses emergency rooms the way we use M and M’s
He has been in there six times this month
He agreed to watch Dunder, Daddy’s dog over Thanksgiving
Changed his mind and begged to go with Daddy to New York

Daddy had to scramble to find a dog-sitter
And had to buy Bob an expensive plane ticket
For it was one of those last minute changes.
He said “Bob, you cannot use an emergency room in New York.”

The minute they deplaned Bob fell and hit his head.
Daddy called an ambulance, now they are in the ER
Whoops!

Hiding from a Coworker

A coworker stops to talk
Her sister has nine lives
She has died six times already
I have no reply

She gives me the details
All of them a bit worse than the last
Then she mentions her brother.
He has been in prison.

For driving drunk and killing four
Three in another car, and his three-year-old-son
I am horrified, how much worse can this get?
She comes back to give me extra details.

I can barely function now
Terrified there will be another story
I do not think I can take one more
But she has three more; I lock my door and hide.

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