8.1.2017 – Alarm Clocks| A useful item Poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 403

Digital Alarm Clock with Sound Machine Black/Larch - Capello®
Digital Alarm Clock with Sound Machine Black/Larch – Capello®

Photo: Digital Alarm Clock with Sound Machine

Alarm Clocks

As I understand it

Successful people don’t use alarm clocks.

If you’re made of grit and ambition

The universe wakes you up

At 4:00 am

To begin your important work.

The universe doesn’t wake me up.

I’m doing it wrong.

The universe knows I want to sleep in.

The drive home, making dinner, and getting kids to bed

All took longer than expected.

Now I’m winding down at 11:00, willing myself up past midnight,

Hoping to be a little better and a bit more free.

I know the universe is watching.

Maybe judging … maybe not

After all, it did give me alarm clocks.

1.31.17 – Let’s Go | A “Let’s (Blank)” Poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 381 – A “Let’s (blank)” poem

(inspired by 3 Ways to Become More Generous and Grow Your Audience)

Love songs offer the sun and moon

in exchange for the hope of a lifetime of love

I just need an email address

I can give you peace of mind

the kind that comes from making a good decision

saving money and time

Or the upward mobility that comes from getting you started

down the path toward higher education

I might interest you in the carefree vibe you’ve been looking for

with a service that leaves a big to-do from your list

to the professionals

in a white paper

in a tutorial

in a webinar

in a way that better connects you to your purpose. Unabated.

Let’s Go!

5.24.16 – Camcorders | A Napkin Poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 350

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Camcorders

1st Grade Performance Friday @ 8:30am

It doesn’t make sense …

To start work late on a Friday and

Take in an amateur performance of songs I’m not familiar with

I don’t just go. I arrive early

For the good parking and the best view

And I always get a little choked up

I can’t help it

These tiny amateurs have worked so hard

To memorize these songs about spiders and

Belt them out in unison

I even get a little peeved at the off-stage commotion

Ok … a little more than a little peeved

Actually more peeved than I would be

At a sold-out $100 –a-seat concert

This concert is free.

I assume that that’s why

After all these years of using my phone as my camera

I suddenly needed a camcorder.

3.30.2016 -The Project | A Coordinated Poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 346

The Project

Life is a project.

The possibilities for 1-hour service windows for next week are like schedule roulette.

1st grade performance at 8:15 am. Great.

The roofer can only do noon on Thursday. You know what I like to do at noon on Thursday?

That’s right! I like to run to the cleaners while scarfing down a granola bar like every other self-respecting professional.

I’m pressing toward saint-like fitness enlightenment, so I tried to get some “intense” fitness activity in this morning.

I brushed my teeth while I jogged with my dog.

I choked a little.

Next time I’ll floss and run with the dog.

If that doesn’t convince you to download a scheduling app …

Imagine me greedily indulging in a cheat day frap when I’m supposed to be meeting with a friend at a healthy greens place. The shame!

Something has to keep track of what I need to do, when I need to do it

and who I need to do it with.

I need to get stuff done so I can enjoy my life.

(Inspired by Writers Digest Wednesday Poetry Prompt #346, a Coordinated Poem)

3.25.2016 Weekend Marketing Reads

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As another layer of fun, I’m going to carve out time every Friday to select some reads for the weekend that will ultimately get baked into my #copypoet posts.

This week I saved (to Pinterest, Dropbox, Google Keep and Email) a number of articles I’d like to read … eventually. This weekend I’m going to tackle a branding read, an SEO read and a trends read.

You can save these for yourself using the links below.

Have a great weekend!

– Toree

Next up: a coordinated poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 346

“For today’s prompt, write a coordinated poem. Coordination could refer to keeping your balance, but it can also be a coordinated event. Sports teams have coordinators; complicated processes require coordination; and even poems have to coordinate words, line breaks, and stanzas.”

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 345 | A lingering poem

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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 345 | A lingering poem

WAITING*

Not keeping up gives the sensation of rushing

But it means – even if you’re running – that you’re going too slow

I’m being driven by Wednesday poetry prompts

Or I’m being drug behind Wednesdays that come

And go too quickly

There goes another one.

I stand near, almost lunging,

Trying to find the rhythm like a game of double-dutch

I have to work my plan to be

Engaging and keyword rich

Content is King; Schedule is Queen

Keeping up means jumping in, even when I haven’t quite found the rhythm

There’s a lot of stumbling and starting again

 

You haven’t seen a bit of it.

You’ve spent the whole time …

Waiting.

 

*I know you're not waiting on my posts, but it made a brilliant punchline, no?