Procrastination

Excellent read...thanks for sharing.
I should print that out and place it in a place of honor in our house. Both of us in this household are master Procrastinators...I wonder how anything ever gets done around here. And then there's the great rift of one being ready to do something and the other not so ready. When we do mesh tho...we can get plenty done in a short amount of time.

I sure can relate to this one. A few years ago I wrote:

Procrstination, you thief of time
Stop trying to be
A friend of mine.

Procrastination, you crook of deeds,
Stop keeping me from
My family's needs

Procrastination, get out of my home
It took me three months just
To type this poem.

Blessinsgs, health, love and prosperity.
Mary Mc

Nice one! Thanks!

Mary, I love your third stanza.

I need pay attention to that word and remember it well. It has gotten to be my tatoo.

Hey Bill
Are you reading my mind 8000 miles away. I'm having one of those days...but tonight (6 hours later than your time) I'm all yours...I mean commenting-wise. Hahaha.

See you later my friend.

This is a great poem! I'm a big procrastinator, so this poem really speaks to me. Thanks for sharing it!

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good poem

Had to laugh....papa is a real procrastinator...i should show papa this poem!

Wow. Nice Poem, Thanks For Sharing. Please Feel Free To Take A Look At Some Of My Videos As Well.

Hilarious!!! Love this piece!!!

Good morning William. I have procrastinated to long, must get away from computer again and get ready for the day. Get the baking soda out and get the shine off my face.

Very nice.

Well done, as always. Too many times, I have found myself procrastinating. And then I would "awaken" to find the strength to tackle any and every task presented.

I'm doing that right this moment. Should be in shower and getting ready to leave in half an hour. Better get my arse in gear!

Nice. Thank you for sharing.

Here I am. Reading your great stuff and going through the authors' best pieces.

Thank you Bill for going through my favourites. Through my silly error, you missed out on my all time favourite piece "Walking With Poetry" but that's not important.

What you did do was worth a million bucks. Thanks big time.

I don't think this poem describes you William, we all have a bit of put off today what we can do tomorrow in us, but it seems you get your "to do" list kept pretty up to snuff, thanks for reading a couple of old things of mine, I appreciate it very much. Love his poem, well done.

Love this poem, well done, should edit, well will do that later on

I can fuuly understand this
and have much to add....

when I get around to it....!!!!
lol...thanks for sharing

Manytimes I find myself a real stubborn in keeping my promises...I don't know whether it's good or bad...I read it three times and I found that still I have to make more promises...

hi William... i really like this... i'll write more... when i get around to it.....

Bill--there is something intriguing in the opening stanza of this which contrasts the immensity of our desires and hopes with the mysterious emotions behind procrastination, which utterly lay us low. When we find ourselves unable to focus and follow our dreams, we do live in the shadow world to which you allude. I feel that sad contrast in this poem and I think you've achieved a lot with it, because it's not an easy subject. Procrastination is such a many-headed hydra that dams the river of life everywhere we turn, when we are afflicted by it.

If it matters to you to spin this into something more powerful, I might suggest that there is a tense shift that jolts and distracts me in the second verse. You begin in the conditional then shift to the past in a way that pulls me from both ends of time and leaves me scrambled. Beyond that, there are few concrete images here and those that are seem vague--slogans, shadows, winds--is there any way to make your language more specific, be it visual, auditory, olfactory or whatever? That sunset intrigues me, but there is so little about it, just the hint of a powerful story that we can't quite understand. Hope my perspective opens up something for you, and thanks for listening to my take!

Gerry, I really appreciate your comments and insight. I agree with you on the second stanza second verse, if that's what you mean.
When I read you write, '...just the hint of a powerful story that we can't quite understand', my thought was instantly that you got the gist of my poem. This is exactly the feeling I want people to take from this. The reason is that we never know what could have happened simply because we never got around to doing anything. It's the could've, would've, should've and great what if of life. I'll write more, when I get around to it.

I was married for 21 years to a procrastinator.
It drove me crazy, and after he left I realized---
That I had picked up some of the tendencies.

A terrible habit,but a great last minute motivator in a round about way!
Couple it with passive -aggressive tendencies and there's a real fun time!

Oh wow! Such a familiar refrain. Loved the poem William.

We used to go to the Round Church in Cambridge, England. They sold "round tuits" as a fundraiser. But I never got around to buying one.

You got around to it, Bill.

Okay, now that I see what you meant about the sunset, sunsets in general work well for that idea, but can you plant that idea itself in the poem, because it's really good?

This is really good. It left me with a sense of longing for what I may have missed. I have a bad habit of procrastination and it frustrates me. You have expressed it so well.

It sounds like you are talking about me.

I can definitely relate to this. There are so many things I had planned to do with my life but I just never got around to it.

Even today, I should have eaten lunch but it's almost time for supper. I just never got around to it.

Maybe when it's time to die, I won't get around to that either.

I'm drinking coffee now. I feel rather blah today.

William, this put a big smile on my face!

I will wash my dirty windows
And sort all my notes for taxes
When I get around to it...

That's when I'm going to clean my house - when I get around to it. So far, that day has not yet arrived!

I'm hoping maybe Santa will clean when he comes.

Oh boy, can I relate to that one! Procrastination is definitely my plague of choice...well not so much of a choice than a reality I guess.
I loved this piece Bill, as always you get the point across magnificently and in style!
M

Well I'm glad I finally got around to reading this poem.
Now I have bout a few more hundred to get around to reading.
SEASON'S GREETINGS!!!!!!

I have been procrastinating about cleaning out the refrigrator. Now it is a must to hold all the things Tracy is bringing for Christmas. We decided not to have to buy the food, sit and chop, dice, boil, peel eggs, all those three days of hard to make a few dishes. Then dont have an oven large enough to cook everything at once.

She finally came up with a great idea. Not Mom and Donald doing all the cooking. Lets get it catered and just clean out your fridge so I can bring the food Sunday Okay?
Wow clean out the fridge. Gee this needs to be dumped in woods. This was to be a weeks worth of meals for the cats. This is still from the last two days and good enough to serve again.

Oh is that where all those cute little containers went, I had bought from Walmart. I wondered where they had went.
Ba Humbug, at least I dont have to cook. Just clean the fridge.