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A bad night at workAll doors are open
yogurt sitting everywhere
there's not enough time...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Senryu
The Quilpie FlyerThere was this little train in Queensland
Quilpie Flyer was the name
Ran from Charleville to Quilpie
Made it every day the same
It was the Daily Mail Train
With a carriage at the back
Taking Ringers and Bush workers
Who went...
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Categories:
adventure, work,
Form: Ballad
Mike and Dave CollideI watched it all happen on aisle nine
as Mike rounded the soda stacks,
careening past the woman standing
there nursing her newborn.
Dave came from the other side,
long-legged stride tripping over
the man whose leg as sticking out
from his...
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Categories:
humor, work,
Form: Free verse
forgot I was likeableI forgot I was likeable
until I quit my job
now I wish I had quit a lot earlier....
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Categories:
work,
Form: Free verse
DedicationDedication shows
Truly pays off at the end
If you work harder....
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Categories:
character, dedication, desire, work,
Form: Haiku
Ideas Vs PracticeSome say ideas are just a tiny part,
Just one out of a hundred, for a work of art.
The rest is practice, lots of work and strain,
Like planting seeds in dirt with little...
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Categories:
perspective, work,
Form: Canzone
No Hate is Certainly WorkingI was glad to escape the school run by demon spawn
thrilled to extricate myself from this hell-hole
disengage from a hateful situation
distangle myself from the mess they call normal
I am pretty sure the students feel...
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Categories:
school, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
and of courseMitzy who retired the same day as me said
“One of my parents gave me two hundred dollars.”
“Great!” I replied
“Another gave me a hundred.”
This makes sense. She is a really terrific second grade teacher.
“And then, of...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Light Verse
my biggest fearI have no pressure.
The job from hell is over.
And yet, I am still not sleeping well.
Especially at night.
I am fearful.
That someone will drag me back there.
And make me work with these people.
It is the biggest...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Free verse
Glad to Make my EscapeI loved my school counseling job
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Until they moved me to another school part time.
One week school A - my home school.
The next week school B- a school that loves...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Narrative
Dorothy Doo WrongI have worked in ten schools as a school counselor.
I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years.
This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator.
Let’s call her Dorothy Doo Wrong.
Dorothy Doo Wrong compartmentalized grades 3rd-5th.
It ensures that...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Narrative
power animal reassures meI spent my first day of retirement chopping down small trees.
Renegade brambles full of ivy and poison vines, Kansas kinds.
Tripped on several of them, landing hard, without using my hands.
I heard my mother’s voice yell...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Narrative
pretend I am deadThe social committee came to me in the form of Mrs. Breast Pump.
Mrs. BP has been taking advantage of many of us for months now.
She is supposed to have two twenty-to-thirty minute pumping breaks.
It is...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Narrative
Corporate RealityTop echelon biz
Looks for financial freedom
The lowly works hard....
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Categories:
business, engagement, perspective, work,
Form: Haiku
Scary to LarryThere once was a farmer named Larry
With a hundred cows at his dairy
Larry did his best
Hired help for the rest
Milking that many cows was scary
...
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Categories:
work, farm, funny, humor, life,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Work Poems
Read wonderful work poetry on the following sub-topics:
anniversary, christmas, colleague, ethic, funny, hard, inspirational, job, leaving, life, stress, teamwork,
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Definition | What is Work in Poetry?
Poems Related to Work
task, industry, trial, job, production, struggle, performance, endeavor, effort, functioning, trouble, stint, commission, drudge, exertion, assignment, toil, drudgery, obligation, stress, grind, sweat, daily grind, elbow grease, grindstone