Sweating in Summer
In scorching summer gathered flock of sheep
Under the blazing rays each to sweat deep.
All sweating profusely.
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Categories:
sweating, summer,
Form: Limerick
Tropical Island
Tears behind the cocktails,
Rowing down to calmness
Oasis was found,
Pure life's gratitude
I found after my mistake.
Confident I feel while I'm breathing loneliness.
Awake with open eyes
Lonely in a tropical island.
Isolated in the middle of the world, I wonder. I wander.
Sun shines above me with compassion, but I'm struggling.
Lucky that I saw a boat I could call its
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Categories:
sweating, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Acrostic
Graveyard Cook
The short order cook is getting delirious at five in the morning
Beads of sweat showing under his funny hat
As he stares blankly at the eight new orders on the wheel,
And wonders when the drunks
Will all have enough and go home.
I’m one of the drunks
From a short order night
The band was hot
And the girls were swingin
But
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Categories:
sweating, drink, longing, work,
Form: Free verse
Sweating Snow
sweating snow, travel
a go? heavenly flakes
fluttering, stimulating, drawing
attention to themselves
cockapoo doesn’t sweat
his tail, sweep
sweep,sweep
his black coal nose nuzzles
the glorious landscape
slowly inches, back
to hearth and home
idly i stare, through off-white
curtains - they seemed white
yesterday; today
a go? impact:
will we head home…
Nov 2022
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Categories:
sweating, animal, weather,
Form: Free verse
To Build a Special Roof For You
(My late father was a construction worker.Remember him on Father's Day.)
The construction workers with
Sweating foreheads
Dry throats
Burning skins
Blinding eyes
Struggle to build
An air-conditioned roof
Under the sun
For you and especially for you
While themselves
Working at a place
Without a fan or an air conditioner
But under a burning sun
Hanging from a roof called the sky
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Categories:
sweating, devotion, sun, work,
Form: Free verse
Hot Wheels
?Sweltering on the leather
front seat,
With sweat coming down
my tanned legs.
Feeling like being cooked,
as helpless,sunnyside up,eggs!
Those silver shades on the front
window,
don’t do me any good.
As I sit here, soaking, in my
California neighborhood!
Rather be in the house with a
cool glass of pink, fresh lemonade.
Oh, I forgot to mention, total
absence from any refreshing
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Categories:
sweating, summer,
Form: Verse
Categories:
sweating, summer, weather,
Form: Haiku
Sweating Shame
sweating shame
feeling disconnected
from you
such a shame
i am in shambles
because of my life's
shambles, which was
in shambles
when shambles was
just a question in my
mind
sweating shame
feeling disrespected
by you
such a pain
i am in denial
because of my
ego's denial, which
was in denial
when denial was just
a happening in other
peoples' lives
sweating shame
feeling so rejected
like you
so insane
in am in a trance
because of my
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Categories:
sweating, how i feel, sad
Form: Free verse
Sweating the First Post
I was nervous before I first posted
Apprehensive what people would think
Would my poems be lauded or roasted
Hit submit and then grab a stiff drink.
My words on the screen looked so helpless
I had exposed them for others to see
And there I sat nervous and clueless
And concerned to a certain degree
What once lived in solitude
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Categories:
sweating, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Anxious and Sweating
Anxious and sweating
Running away from the crash
She feared for her life
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Categories:
sweating, fear, sad,
Form: Haiku
Sweating Inspiration
as I am here this warm evening
pressing the microphone button
on my smart phone
John Quincy Adams sits beside me
at his congressional desk
while Thomas Edison is sitting nearby
at a bench in Menlo Park and
Archimedes is lounging
down the hall in his bath
none of them are visibly
perturbed, nor exhibit
obvious genius as
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Categories:
sweating, art, inspirational, on writing
Form: Narrative
Sweating Music, By Ronald S Porter
the music is sweating in the room
strings and reeds bump and grind
slow-dragging dancers entwine
oh the fruit is ripe upon the vine
and the wine of love and laughter
a mingled vintage- joy and tears
now are drunk down to the dregs
then another round is poured
urgency prowls the crowd's periphery
everybody waiting for... nobody knows
but we'll pitch a fit when
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Categories:
sweating, black african american, music,
Form: Lyric
Sweating It
He spun the wheel,
no big deal there;
no real money.
In a short while.
that big smile of
poor Lyle vanished.
He pursed his lips,
Gripped his chips and
Took nips of gin.
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Categories:
sweating, adventure
Form: Than-Bauk
Sweating Through School!!!
Homework, friends, no time to spend,
watching TV or being lazy.
Assigned to work, no choses for you,
but TOUGH cookies all the pressures on you know who!
Tests, quizes, and exams, the teachers say 'SHAZAM!'
Think they know how hard it can be, on one who is always busy?!
NO!
5 pages of notes to copy down 'it'll take two minutes,
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Categories:
sweating, education
Form: Rhyme
The Sweating Sun
My eyes watch the trees grow
as the sun sheds sweat.
The yellow beads of sweat taste sweet on my open mouth.
I am lost in all the sweetness around me.
The sun is sweating so much, it looks like rain.
Perspiration watering the trees
So I can watch them grow next spring.
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Categories:
sweating, nature, peace, seasons, sun,
Form: Romanticism
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