Work Watch Poems

00°That smile
That smile could put the sun to shame
Those eyes are brighter than amber, eveen when in shade
Those words could mend a broken soul
That laugh...

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I sat in the gallery until it closed
Not looking at anything
Just not going home from work
I feel like looking for a sign saying 'free hugs'...

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Do you hate when something you leave goes away?
That you never finished making out what you had to say?
Jumping from tab to tab, because your...

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Sometimes we like to do something for the story
we’ll tell afterwards. Buy a ’58 Pontiac, climb
a mountain in the dark. Lamar tells dirty jokes
with class,...

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It was the work of her hands
that gave flesh to her speech;
her persona made vocal.
Gestures were needle-point,
stitching words into sound.
She talked with the eloquence
of quick...

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The morning sun’s oppressive; a nasty b*tch in heat on Rizal Avenue,
Where vendors hawk their cigarettes, baloot, and dog meat barbecue.
The jeepneys buzz the intersection...

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Remember all the words of the Lord
to receive His healing full of light
be watching with eyes wide open
so you know to push sin out of...

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This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size...

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Clothe in my mind
 yet my spirit is naked 
unable to find the door to walk out of 
my feet around my neck
 where my...

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The cock crows 
 Cock a doodle doo. 
I am up in bed.

In my study, while
  revising my writing
 hear the Cuckoo's call.

Coo, coo...

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Whitechapel, you must watch for me.
Your streets unlit, they are dark and dreary.
Those ladies of night go passing by.
I’ve chosen my victim, the one to...

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BE MINDFUL AND WATCH WHAT YOU ASK—PRAY-- FOR 

I can remember when I was four
Standing on a kitchen chair washing dishes
It was cute then, but...

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Watch what you say to me
Watch who you talk to about me
Got the ears of a wolf
What's that you said about me
Watch my tail feather
I...

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On holiday on Scotland's Moray Firth
spent time at SDC at Spey bay
that's the Scottish Dolphin centre
whose vision's for there safety from all prey 

Risso's Dolphins...

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Death Watch

It was early morning.
The sun was barely above the high hills on the other side of the lake.
I was at the end of the...

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