Tomorrow
I’m going to…
Tomorrow
I was going to…
Today
I must do…
poem- exasperation November 15, 2016
Your desperation
leads me to exasperation
How many times do I tell you?
How many times did I tell you?
How many times will I tell you?
Too many.
Once more.
If you do it when you’re asked
Begin when assigned the task
You will not be desperate
and I will not exasperate.
poem-optimism April 30, 2016
I bought a yoga block today
To help me do those trickier positions.
I have the yoga mat in a nice new case
at the top of the stairs.
I bought a couple of yoga CDs
and a stack of yoga magazines.
Occasionally I stretch my arms and think
first position of the sun salutation!
Someday, I going to turn on the CD
or go to a class
or take the block from its package.
I have faith in me.
I’ll do it.
Eventually.
poem-stacked January 10, 2016
8 screws
6 boards
8 pins
wind, wind, wind, wind
wind, wind, wind, wind
push, push, push push
push, push, push, push
shelves stacked
and now book, book, book
Why did it take so long
to buy a book shelf, and clear these
stacks off the floor?
poem- accomplishments November 22, 2014
The litany of what could be
is not as important as
what is now.
What was before
is not as important as
what is now.
For now is all
you ever have.
poem-tired August 1, 2014
I need new pyjamas.
The effort of hunting through stores
hurts my head.
I have fabric, thread, pattern
and machines.
It’d only take an hour to make,
But just taking
the serger out of the box
seems too great a challenge.
I think finishing my last novel
was more exhausting than
it seemed.
poem- procrastination May 30, 2014
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!
.
.
.
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!
poem- now February 6, 2014
You’ve been waiting,
watching,
wondering,
but now
it’s time to act.
Stop planning,
scheming,
dreaming,
and do.
Face the task.
Make it happen.
Decide as you go along.
It’s time,
now.
Quote- Stephen King on hesitation December 22, 2013
Quotes from Stephen King 11-22-63
The scholars’ greatest weakness: calling hesitation research ( 282)
This is true for writers, too. I have notes from a workshop by C. C. Humphreys about this. The first book, you want to get everything researched, and you read and read, study and copy notes. He says, quit researching, and get writing. Get the first draft, then go back and focus your research to fix and fill. If you don’t have a purpose to you research, it can go on forever. If you are researching for something specific, you find and move on.
poem- NaNoWriMo doldrums November 6, 2013
NaNoWriMo
A month
to write
a novel
throughout the nations.
But on day 6
I already
require fibrillation.
So tired
So worn
and the end of day
My eyelids are drooping
and I think there’s no way
after pounding out emails
and working all day
I have any energy
for what writing entails.
But I’m half way through
a fun new novella
If I can just sit and type
avoid Facebook and Skype
write, write, write
then perhaps in spite
of procrastination
I’ll be able to sing
in celebration.
No need for special inspiration
just dedication to my narration.
Shawn L. Bird 