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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,
hours of their labors.
The Lord of their lives
and their eternity-
gives them a dreamer's sojourn
in the welcomed moonrise. ~...
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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
Yard Work
Yard Work
Written: by Miracle Man
5/13/2024
The morning has started with a drizzle falling,
my name, the tall grass, seems to be calling.
But a puddled yard,
makes mowing hard,
and daily rains have made mowing appalling.
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Categories:
rain, work,
Form: Limerick
Dance Partnerswas thinking the other day
How things work in their own way
And decisions that you take
May be different once you wake
For the world will turn away
And the cogs interact without your say
For decisions can hold...
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Categories:
life, work,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mom’s Advice For Me Mothers Day 2024
Mom’s Advice For Me
Miracle Man Tom Wright
Mothers Day 2024
Our mom was one of ten children. Her parents were farmers at a time when it required horses, mules and large families. She said that every child...
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Categories:
work, how i feel, mothers
Form: Narrative
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