Productivity Poetry

== One Load ==
:One load to wash them all,
:One load to dry them,
:One load to bring them all and into pairings bind them,
:In the land of Sock Drawer where the stockings lie.
:: - Vanyalosswen
== Ode to the Chores ==
Here is an ode to the chores and challenges of the holiday season.
:Tis a month before New Year's, the calendar cries,
:And every bright gleam in the shop window vies
:For attention and spending on Black Friday deals.
:Leaves fall with rain, perhaps snow, on their heels.
:All through the marketplace, food changes hands
:With some left in buckets of charity cans.
:Our houses are filled with cuisine plain and fine:
:Gingerbread, pumpkin, and spicy mulled wine.
:The tree with its branches scarce fits through the door,
:Sheds needles and pine sap behind on the floor.
:Lights on the roof go up festive and bright:
:A knot in the cord makes the job take all night.
:The year marches endward and time does not wait,
:And somehow one day's worth of strength must last eight.
:Family brings drama both joyful and tragic.
:Children bring wishlists for holiday magic,
:And each family's call for its own kind of reverence
:Fights every year against hunger for presents.
:And after the stamp on the last thank-you letter
:A pause, and reflection: could next year be better?
:The clock ticks towards midnight and pencil meets page
:Writing out goalposts both trifling and sage.
:And two weeks from New Year's, where shall those aims be?
:Faithfully honored, or out with the tree?
:: - Vanyalosswen
:Those things that we won't do unless somebody asks
:Convert them today, to somebody's Tasks
:That stuff that we'd quit, except, oh, dagnabbit
:Turn them like magic into somebody's Habit
:That thing that's not due until sometime past Tues
:Add it today, to your list of To-Dos
:Because somebody's job is to make this all happen
:Because somebody is you, so sign in and get crackin'
:And checking off tasks is the Habitican Way
:So go fight some monsters, and get stuff done today!
::-Taldin
== On Habits ==
==== On Good Habits ====
:Habits are good, habits are great; if you do your habits, you get to eat cake!
==== On Bad Habits ====
:Habits are horrid, habits are bad; if you do your habits, you'll be very sad!
:: - Selena Ariel (soon-to-be world-famous poet)
== Author and Title Unknown ==
:Thank God for dirty dishes;
:They have a tale to tell.
:While others may go hungry,
:We're eating very well
:With home, health, and happiness,
:I shouldn't want to fuss;
:By the stack of evidence,
:God's been very good to us.
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