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Work Smart
by Karen C Vanderlaan → (All Poetry by Karen C Vanderlaan)
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I feel my life is,

As the dirt beneath my feet,

Crumbling away with each forward step

So quickly that I never seem

To gain a foothold


I labor and work,

A value taught on my childhood farm,

With so little progress

Life it seems, a never ending struggle


Borrowing from Peter

To make payments to Paul

Pay one bill, beg forgiveness on another

This just isn't working, my dad was wrong

Hard work isn't all it takes

I think I need to work smarter

 
 
 

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 Reviews of "Work Smart"
Reviewed by Mary Patterson
Reviewed on July 11, 2007
A profoundly true write. Many of us struggle just to keep up, only to get knocked down again. I been there, dnoe that. It does get beetr tho as time goes by. Never give up.....M

Reviewed by Morning Star
Reviewed on May 3, 2007
you truly have found the answer
To the problem of the reality of life
And it is a never ending struggle!
Time passes we've gain more knowledge
Excellent message convey within this write!!
Love And Peace to you always
Your friend...Morning Star

Reviewed by Robert Blackwell
Reviewed on April 30, 2007
Excellent, Karen!

Reviewed by Art Hernandez
Reviewed on April 29, 2007
Sometimes the reality of life places a burden instead of joy and it is there where we find ....ourselves....

Time does make one smarter....

a nice work of thought on this view of life...

enjoyed.....Art Sun...

Reviewed by Aberjhani
Reviewed on April 28, 2007
Enjoyed the unflinching honesty of WORK SMART and its nonsympathetic resolution. Seems the only real answer for some of us is to learn to love the process of striving--if nothing else, such a perspective helps produce good poetry like this. Much gratitude,
Aberjhani

Reviewed on April 28, 2007
It is said: WORK SMarter NOT HARDER,
perfect words of wisdom!

Hang IN!
My Golden "sun come up in the morning" beaming on your soul, kinda' friend~
LOOK to your Blessings, there right where you left them~
I'm sending you energy of golden, purple hues, feel them enter you, all day they will stay!
God Bless!
God Speed!
BE Happy - POsitive! and Healthy!

WArmly, WArrior Lady Sheeeoox

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on April 27, 2007
An excellent poem, with a wisdom message, Karen !
You have found an answer for the problem which is
half the battle, the other half comes in making the
changes necessary. That takes Creaor's help. I'll
be praying for you!;-)

Love,
Eileen

Reviewed by Karen Cino
Reviewed on April 27, 2007
I agree with you one hundred percent on this.

Hark work isn't all it takes
I think I need to work smarter

To me it seems that the less you do, the more you are rewarded. I really worked hard, wound up getting hurt and got nothing to show for all my hard work.

Excellent write.

~hugs~
Karen

Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on April 27, 2007
Yes, but how?? If we could, we would, wouldn't we?? I have learned in all of my 50 years that in order for the books to balance, we have to ditch quite a few of the once-thought of as necessaries along the way. Thought-provoking and touching, Karen. If only hard work WERE all that it takes sometimes.... Kate xx

Reviewed on April 26, 2007
hello Karen, just our cluck but you know something, the more you make the more you spend, great rant

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
Great write! The vicious never-ending story of life.....

Be safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Joyce Bowling
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
Hard work isn't all it takes, but I like Ed think that there was a time when that was all it took. But, that was when there wasn't Internet to instantly order from, or catalogue purchases from a phone, numerous malls, etc. People didn't always live so convenient as they do now! Makes it real easy to spend, drive throughs, order by phone, or a click of the mouse...and the commercials, well they make it sound so wonderful. We have to learn to budget and just say NO!!!! Great write! Enjoyed this much!
Blessings,
Joyce Bowling

Reviewed by Barbara Smith
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
Yes, we, the less fortunate, struggle to make ends meet but through strife & living from pay check to pay check we do learn the value of money & have a desire to attain an education to better ourselves. The old addage that hard work always pays off is not true in today's world...we need to be educated to acquire the jobs that will pay us for our earned work services.

Reviewed by Jeanette Cooper
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
"Work Smart" touched me where it hurts. I've been trying to teach lessons in financial management for years to my son. Now, he is trying to do the same with his wife. (Hope he learns from this experience.)

"I think I need to work smarter" has many connotations, but to me it means that working is the physical process, while managing one's finances is the intelligent process. Without doing both, life can become a never-ending struggle.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
Hard work isn't all it takes

I think there was a time when hard work was all it took, but like so many other things we've now lost in this modern era, we seem to have lost this, too.

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on April 26, 2007
This poem says it for many of us, in this computer world of the future we live in though things may have gotten easier physically, financially we still face the same pressures our parents and grandparents did. I'm with you on this one Karen.

Fee

Reviewed on April 26, 2007

"Work Smart"... better than this message is reading it three more times!
This is a poetic-philosophic-social accomplishment. "Work Smart" GLOWS
in wisdom, contents and message.

I salute You, Poet.

In admiration,


Andre Emmnauel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on April 25, 2007
Know the feeling well in my younger life, and wising up is a step in the right direction.


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