Best Blue Collar Poems

In the stillness of my room  I lay in bed
arms snugged tightly around my pillow
turned  side-ways facing moon and light
But it is not the burnt orange moon 
but glowing embers in his eyes that warm my vacant night.
Tonight ,I see him  just...

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How does your part-crooked smile
Break out with such elegant style?
Subtle flaws modeled graceful and true
Like a gown woven just to fit you......

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forty-four years after high school
before one can 
retire and enjoy life...

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The work I do is not the most prestigious one,
from four to twelve thirty I drive...until my shift is done;
a forklift driver rarely takes a coffee-break, 
and being courteous and helpful to customers means a lot.


My long-life dream was to be a songwriter like Andrew...

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He’s exhausted, he just doesn’t know it. Trudging on, with wet feet he wears a groove into the same old places he goes every day.  His cynicism distilled by pre-dawn alarm clocks, cold floors, sore joints and blistered hands; filtered through layers of work...

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I recently went to court to show
a supposed voice of reason
paperwork that had been falsified
by one within his own profession;
to my "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit" surprise,
the only real voice of reason was mine -
the pristine-looking image 
of a con artist, theatrical...

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I just got my paycheck,
when my workday was through,
saw how much was left after taxes,
I got the blue collar blues…
Maybe one day I'll go to college,
and get a white collar degree,
but by then I'll be too old,
to even go on a spending spree,
so I guess...

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The blue-collar poet writes 
of life in truth

Hard work long hours
Sometimes twelve or more

 Spinning brief yarns about coworkers
Neighbors and friends and what
A pain The boss is

The blue color poet
shares good times and bad 

Takes you on journeys to imaginary
Lands and fanciful places 
you've never...

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So many want only to decorate
Over life, dapple in shiny paint

From responsibility, they choose to excuse
Their delicate hands from such a bruise
They are irked, if asked to lurk
In the murk of work

They think they are owed a road
That is freely breezy
After all, it is easy
To...

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There are many places in this world
where people tend to go,
to get a really good laugh
from a Great Comedy Show.

But My Friends I say to You
The Place to go is this,
Where you will hear The Famous Line,
"You Might be A Redneck If......."

Next on Stage there...

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Home from work everyday covered in soot and grime, 
Grit in his shoes; busts his gut to earn every last dime.



Your Best Rhyming Couplet #2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: L MILTON HANKINS
Date written: 09/29/2021...

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The wealthy seek company with your ten-acre heart and one-acre mind. 
Groupies swarm beneath your haloed window even on rainy nights.
Tapping tambourines and triangles to poultice out those nuggets of life.
You slowly walk away from the frame and tiredly kiss them goodnight.

You try tempering pace,...

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someone like you
someone like me
we can change the world
make our difference
it's up to you and me



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 20, 2021...

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Blue Collar T-shirt   

Don’t be unfazed and wonder 
When i say i have been there 
Where everyone doesn’t at a time rise 
And hold their head to create chaos 
And doesn’t keep minds free
 To fear not to disrespect the rule of law...

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An a show! Bravo we applauded. We
see past the befores' and look toward 
the nextes': we thought it was one of
 those nights. Durning the main attraction
most who were interested stopped and
went out and became audience, you know
regular guy's. I sat next to members of
the...

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