I plainly do not wish to write
the essay I had planned tonight
Instead I filled the night with song
but at midnight I think that was wrong
No work to show for hours gone by
My eyes are sore, I’m prone to sigh
The essay will not write itself
The due day looms like Dante’s hell
I greatly fear procrastination
has thwarted my determination!
So wish me luck, just one day left
The due date rises like my stress!
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.
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I arranged a tune. I made a video. I did not work on my essay. Plainly I’ve been absorbing too much from the teenagers all around me! lol Tomorrow is the last chance. Wish me luck!
Shawn L. Bird 
Good luck 🙂
Thank you Richard!
Nice poem! Good luck with your essay
Thanks! I need it!
Good luck! I know how it feels when I need it badly, too. 😛
Thanks Sheth!
Been there! Done that! 🙂 Best of luck to you!
Thanks, Leona!
Good luck!! rooting for ya 🙂
Thanks!
Hope you could muster up some of Grace’s super powers:)
lol
Excellent suggestion! I shall have to channel her! 🙂
Can’t you hear “him” humming in his mesmerizing voice…I did {wink}
Ooooo that resonates with me! Love the lines “I greatly fear procrastination has thwarted my determination!” There’s a few OU students, including myself, that know exactly how that works! lol! Good luck anyway – sometimes the last minute is the best minute! 😉
It will be a busy minute, that’s for sure!
Good luck 🙂
Thanks!
maybe not so bad a choice! 😉
Well, this morning, on 6 hours sleep for the 4th day in a row, it seems like it wasn’t the best choice!
😉
maybe your inner genius has just been stalling for time ’till the masterpiece is ready?
ha ha. I can dream!!! 🙂
okay, inquiring minds want to know. did you get that paper written?
Finished last night. Handed in on time today. 🙂
yay!!!
And yet on that Day when you’ve run
the race, and when your life is done
you’ll think of lazy days and sun
and of last night and that song’s fun.
Essays live but briefly here
and haunt us pre-birth with a fear
and dread of birthing them is near
when all they are…pain in our rear!
so lift up laughter as you write
and scribble smart things, neat and tight
and while you create, let your sight
fix on that Day of vast Delight!
(oooohhhh…doggerel is such sweet sorrow!!! LOLOLOL)
🙂
Love, Charissa
lol!
😀
Hope you finished your essay in time. Deadlines can be hell but the flip side is that they force you to produce the goods!
I have until Saturday! 🙂
Any time you fill the night with song is not wasted, it is blessed. And the odd thing is that the essay probably will write itself.
To be honest, it’s mostly done, but I need to order conclusions in my head, and stick in few more citations…
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O-Teach now the essay could write it self with a little help from you.
If I could only sit and analyze the data with some concentration! I’m being far too easily distracted!
you get easily distracted, my life is one big distraction…
Indeed, one does!
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You can do it! Deadlines usually light a fire under my hinder-parts!! Then my fingers get to tapping out whatever essays, poems or prose that needs to be done.
It felt like my efforts were completely fragmented, but when I added some headings, it was almost all there, so it took very little more effort. Thankfully!
The last time I had friends over for a jam-night we went until 1:30 in the morning. Music has a way of temporarily disengaging our common sense – thank goodness.
Sounds like fun!