Stress Poems

Everyone is in a panic.
Except me.
Everyone is frenzied.
Except me.
Everyone is crazed to the maximum degree.
Except me.

I am lying on my back in my yard in the sun.
Listening to the birds trill, they seemed stress too.
I hear little people yelling “where...Read More

beware of three-eyed monsters in the night
the ones that linger out of sight
they’re hairy beasts that grunt and lurk
and try to drive you quite berserk
they hide away up inside your ceiling
while you dream go on a midnight fling
their beady eyes...Read More

regret holds me hostage and the ‘almost’ captivates me. 
i lose myself in a world of ‘what if’ 
and drown myself in a harbour of sadness; 
the only happiness i know is when my stomach is empty; the only pride...Read More

Don’t forget ……

Why you’re running so fast?
Look they’re moving faster.
Ok, but what’s the purpose?
I can’t talk now, need to speed up to cover the gaps.
What about your aim, your rationale?
Damn it, it’s a competitive world.
Does it mean, you’ve to follow...Read More

The banality of my reality 
made me totally rethink
goals and relationships
that've brought me 
to the brink 
everyday insanity
of hustle work and lies
I'm here not there
and there is where
my sanity resides...Read More

Money isn't what you want, and I'll prove it too.
You only want the things that money do for you.
You can't eat it, drink it, it can't keep you warm,
you can't stack it around you and build a decent home.
We don't...Read More

My prayer* for you comes with blessings’ glow
Warming your days around God’s sweet embrace
Along peace, love and joy that freely flow
Marked by His abounding marvelous grace.

Warming your days around God’s sweet embrace
His goodness does uphold you from pressure
Marked by His...Read More

Leaving work for home, my job stress still fizzled.
The long drive included bratty rain drizzle
and windshield blades needing my constant fiddle.
My stress spittled as rush hour drizzle-tripled.
Some driver's fingers waved from their hand’s middle
but I thought how my nights were...Read More

Conditioned by decades of life,
you’d think the flesh by now would have 
hardened sufficiently to bounce off 
any unexpected blow life is always 
throwing at us. Yet nothing gives 
the flesh a greater fright than when 
surprised by this slider!...Read More

I'm in a preposterous pickle
Caught up in a pitiful plight,
Hands raised in a sign of surrender
Enmeshed in a garment too tight!

I'm bleating a plea for assistance
But nobody answers my call,
As changing room cubicles whisper
'She tried on a dress far too...Read More

Monday means rise and shine,
get out of bed and be at work on time,
it's a day some consider makes them blue
when full of stress and crying too.

Tuesday gives us our second wind,
makes up for the tiring day before
as we hustle...Read More

Why do some people commit suicide?
When is enough enough
What makes them decide
To finish living
Before the end of their ride
Why do they want to come to an abrupt end
Nobody knows what's around the bend
Perhaps they are under too much stress
Have feelings...Read More

You can offer time and help 
do favours and show sympathy, 
but some are all about themselves 
knowing not of empathy, 
attention given won’t see a return 
for only they are their concern, 
never notice others feel hopeless, 
as they...Read More

Like a parvenu with new found riches,
I had to adjust to the new thrust of
wearing both motherhood and work britches.
But unlike riches with pleasure twitches,
my changes gained me pressure stiches!
I became a day and night thriving,
gotta getter-doner energizer
conquering to-do lists...Read More

oh little nesting doll
why do you hide inside yourself?
why can’t you set your mind free?
inside, there’s nothing to see.

doesn’t it pain you
to be so out of touch?
if only they all knew
that hope alone is not enough.

oh little butterfly
why do you...Read More

I find it funny
bordering absurd
to hear people
ramble on and
spill their beans
they must be all
delusional
thinking they are entitled
do they really
not hear themselves
I’m absolutely delighted
to send them
on their quirky
and eccentric way
as I shake my head 
clear the air
and try hard to pretend
they...Read More

Hence no surprise... yes
recherché rhetorical flourish(es) impress,
yet mine deliberate vocabulist predilection,
I haint gonna stress
aforementioned quirk
also includes zero apr

(annual percentage rate),
may be subject with excess
sieve jejune ennui pullulating Kudzu like
indecipherable haphazard gobbledygook mess
abhorrent brashness claptrap discouraging
further harrowing progress
into thicket of verbiage,...Read More

Though you may be poor,
There is no freedom without cash,
Worked hard for the dollar,
Until I hit the floor,
The poor has gift of time.
The rich in cash has no woe of money,
where there is no lack.
Not where the green dog can...Read More

Leader of the home with virtuous height
Bracing up family with grand posture
Governing prudently by great faith’s might  
He’s our Daddy in his godly gesture.

Daddy dearest is our human fortress.
He loves us as he trusts the Lord* Who’s great.
Assertively pointing...Read More

Rowan parking makes my heart burst
in the worst way; however,
You make my heart not rest
in the best way...Read More

A  Animals other than my kind are
B  Beautiful, loving souls; empathic to their
C  Core and full of absolute
D  Devotion 
E  Expressed compassionately, to their
F  Family members.
G  Generous to a fault are their hearts...Read More

SELLING      LIVES.    

Friday is free display day
For the old, the poor,
Plastc sheets spread over rain-filled  
Paths through the market square.

Step aside for an old woman
With a lined face
Equally dodging the puddles,
Automatic...Read More

Purpose


We assign a purpose
But there is a cost..
With said purpose
We narrow our focus
Consult a few maps
Confine our freedom
Acknowledge a self..
Allowing
Is blindfolded as we
Create our world of
Purpose..

Going  for a walk... (?)
...Read More

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Lost in the silence where dreams now awaken,
closing my eyes to the stress of the day
Feeling alone and a little forsaken,
wishful these moments that come into play

Wondering if it is imagination,
bringing these thoughts on this evening to me
Something to quell...Read More

Everyone dreams of being

In the clouds

But only know how

To get there by

Smoking loud.



I'm tired of the weed.

People only

Know how to feed

Bad habits.



They want to lead

By example.

They concede and

Get trampled.



Things get rocky.

Life turns from solid

To shambles.



Procrastination is

A Fascination.

Stress levels increase.

We all...Read More