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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-12-04 09:07 pm

Essays

An unwilling student is a plague
Teaching was no passion of my heart
But children still have homework they must start
And parents have to guide them through each page.
-K Royka, 12/4/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-12-03 08:38 pm

Tired

How to know it's time to sleep:
Couplets work, just right and cheap.
-K Royka, 12/3/2024
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-12-02 09:50 pm

Countdown

I never expected
I would reach my goal
Writing all these poems
Sometimes takes a toll
But this final countdown
Months bled down to days
Somehow can be harder
Than the early days
-K Royka, 12/2/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-12-01 08:35 pm

Untitled, 12/1/2025

How can a day be so busy and slow?
So rushed, and yet, no?
Like it won't let me go?
Spending more time on just getting things right
Is already a fight
But in three weeks, good night!
I just keep trying and hope I'm enough
Dig on through this stuff
It's not quite that tough
Still, my head pounds at the end of the day
Guess I don't have many words to say.
-K Royka, 12/1/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-30 08:16 pm

Blank

A two-day lull?
Unheard of, till
It seems, in late
November's chill
And busy rush,
Thanksgiving's sprawl
Has gone and felled
Us, one and all.
-K Royka, 11/30/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-27 08:14 pm

Dinner

A roast of pork; potatoes;
Steamed green beans on the side.
But also, add the stuffing
And chutney must be tried.
We didn't bake the pumpkin pie,
Which left us only two.
But when you list it all out,
It was a lot to do.
-K Royka, 11/27/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-26 09:47 pm

Rest

Too much to do tomorrow;
I need to get some sleep
My daughter's on piano
My son is counting sheep
My spouse is getting ready
To come to bed as well
But while there's Old McDonald
We're stuck awake in hell.
-K Royka, 11/26/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-25 08:43 pm

Olly Olly

One foot still trapped but the other one free
Sing olly, sing olly, oh, olly oxen free!
Twins tied to schedule but not so for me
Sing olly, sing olly, oh, olly oxen free!
Still to prepare and to bake and to fry
Sing olly, sing olly, oh, olly oxen free!
Soon comes the feasting with good tastes to try!
Sing olly, sing olly, oh, olly oxen free!
-K Royka, 11/25/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-24 08:49 pm

Interpretation

Nightmares may chase you down, my son;
With fear and shadow they may strike.
Still please remember, son:
Like other dreams with thought they break.
-K Royka, 11/24/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-23 09:36 pm

Short

Two days work
Three days school
Holiday
Five days break
Everything
Should align
Far too rushed
'Ware mistake!
-K Royka, 11/23/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-22 09:02 pm

Field Experience

Back when I was still in high school,
The entire fucking class
Took a trip to New York City
(No museums, though, alas).
Now, I still cannot remember
Why this field trip we were on,
But I know I had no camera,
So I scribbled some notes down.
It was boring, we went shopping,
And my classmates thought me odd --
Who records their life on paper
While they're living it? Dear G-d!
(Nearing thirty long years later,
I most humbly submit:
Whatsomever that field trip *was*,
It was never "living it".
-K Royka, 11/22/2025
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Syzygis ([personal profile] syzygis) wrote2025-11-21 08:42 pm

Cycle

Weeks into seasons and years into lives
Watch as the world turns the crushed to survived
Echoes of history time after time
May not repeat but it surely does rhyme.
-K Royka, 11/21/2025