~ “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
-Don Marquis
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Last Years list
of this year, buried on some distant landfill
365 days of refuse forgotten...
we'll clean it up next year.
2
Aprils list
for May, folded and packed in a pile of scribbled stickies
three weeks of thought dismissed...
I'll write the rest in June.
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Last weeks list
for this week, washed with the laundry still in the dryer
a week of clothes gone wrinkled...
I'll fold them in a few days.
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Yesterdays list
for today, stuck in the pages of a textbook
for a test I'll have to guess...
I'll read the rest tomorrow.
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Todays list
for tomorrow, stuck to my alarm clock
a contest ending in 30 minutes...
Gives me 20 minutes to think.
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Or maybe even 25?
~Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain
Author notes
work in progress.
*Written Sunday September 30th 2007 at 12:48am
In a list
A contest entry
- The Procrastination Station by Ted E Bare.
300 points, ended October 8, 2007, 16 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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I believe the funnel of time you brought to this write as it narrows down is its difinitive mark. We all seem to be victims of our own best wishes and plans. Yet you drove it home from a year down to a day. Ultimately, it all becomes the same non-accomplishment. Somehow even if we do not accomplish those things we claim we would we are no better and no worse because we do not know what the difference would be. http://allpoetry.com/poem/3902357 Sincerely RC
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Having read a few of your poems a few thing stand out very prominently. Your use of vocabulary is intelligent and well thought out. Your use of internal word sounds that go well together creates poetry that comes trippingly on the tongue. Your rhythm is fantastic and your subtle rhyme patterns (ending and internal) give your poems just the right amount of lyricality (now I'm making up words, but you know what I mean).
Very impressive. The images of your words persist long after the reading and your considered and intelligent approach to your poetry demonstrates a great respect for the reader.
Yours is a remarkable talent buttressed by incredible skill and the end result is solid poem making that holds up to scrutiny and invites repeated readings.
Awed, CaliOkie
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I really loved this poem. It was very good. I especially loved the Mark Twain quote encouraging procrastination. Excellent
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love the style and format you wrote thsi in. truly unique and perfect for such a write, it intensifies the meaning. brilliant work.
blessings and *stomps
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I love the originality of this. Sorta reminds me of myself, making lists but never actually getting round to doing anything about them. A very unique format that was really interesting to read. Definetely trophy worthy.
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I like the way this piece is done, very original. Nice use of list, especially the idea of starting off with an expansive (year) list then narrowing it down to a days list.
Very well written and congrats on gold.
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wow, you really know what procrastination is. a very well deserved gold here. I love this piece!!!!!
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Sounds like all of my lists (with the exception when I lose my lists and forget what I was suppose to do in the first place which may be classified as a different type of procrastination(lol)). I want to thank you for entering my "The Procrastination Station" contest.
Ted E
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