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Mental TortureHardest thing to rest
Is the tiredness in the mind
A daily torture....
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Categories:
work, life, mental health, recovery
Form: Haiku
Over The Waters Blue"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar" ... Samual Taylor Coleridge
Over the waters blue I love to sail,
many times I get to see a big whale.
Some nights the wind will sigh,
like...
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Categories:
work, blue, boat, love, sea,
Form: Bio
Beginning AgainI decided to work smarter
Instead of just working harder
This may seem a bit trite
No need to get uptight
This poem is just my restarter
...
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Categories:
work, courage, creation, humor, life,
Form: Limerick
Good Workthank you dear farmers
love you and love your neat work
food, fruits, and much more...
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Categories:
farm, work,
Form: Haiku
The GrindstoneA red-rimmed sun of summer,
of the sweat of the workers,
the salt of their brows.
Shoulders to the grindstone,
the strength of sinew and muscle,
hours of their labors.
The Lord of their lives
and their eternity-
gives them a dreamer's ...
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Categories:
work, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Work schedulesI remember back in the day when everything was closed on Sundays and you could take a leisurely Sunday drive with your parents and not have to worry about being anywhere at any certain time...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Monoku
Over The TopSun up you're up time's up get up
light on paste on brush up brush down brush all around
chin up shave up wash up wipe up you're out
kids up mom's not
suit up tie on press...
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Categories:
work, character, husband, life, marriage,
Form: Alliteration
one of these daysA job defines bits of our life
Though it often causes us strife
We’ll find a new fit
If we choose to quit
And not slit our wrists with a knife...
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Categories:
work, angst, career, cry, dream,
Form: Limerick
Blue Collar, White CollarBlue collar school,
Blue collar play,
Blue collar children,
Blue collar praise,
Blue collar words,
Blue collar phrased,
Blue collar work,
Blue collar pay,
Blue collar union,
Blue collar say,
Blue collar terraced,
Blue collar glazed,
Blue collar town,
Blue collar ways,
Blue collar nights,
Blue collar days,
Blue collar skies,
Blue...
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Categories:
work, children, day, house, night,
Form: Rhyme
I can't read mindsI don't read between the lines and I can't read minds
I was unsuccessful on my last three tries
you asked for my opinion but what you're seeking is agreement
so I toss what I was thinking in...
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Categories:
work, analogy, confusion, journey, money,
Form: Rhyme
UnwindWhen you're exhausted
Take a rest and breath deeply
Set task for a while....
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Categories:
care, engagement, perspective, work,
Form: Haiku
Weedy Eschatology
Weedy Eschatology
By Mark D. Stucky
The aging street mourns its faded splendor.
It remembers having red tulips and roses
in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns
in community yards lining its borders.
But neighborhoods gradually decayed,
and nobody’s planted flowers in years.
The asphalt’s...
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Categories:
work, character, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Out to Lunch
Joe’s out to Lunch
He’ll be back right away
(Try again, sucker
next Friday)
Joe just stepped out
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Categories:
integrity, sorry, work,
Form: Rhyme
Plastic FlowersMy basket full of plastic flowers:
Pricing them passes all the hours....
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Categories:
flower, jobs, work,
Form: Crystalline
I love this job.
Click
Click
"like this"
click click click
Click
"under the"
yeah
sshhhnap
oooops
...
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Categories:
work, adventure, allegory, beautiful, native
Form: Carpe Diem
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,
and more.
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