Best Bricklayer Poems

Third day on her honeymoon
Sharon asks Butch what it's like 
for a man before he gets married.

A bricklayer by trade, 
and a man of few...

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Daily toil is yours

Bricks all laid in perfect form

Art from skilful hands





For my talented husband
have read a few great senryu today  and thought I'd...

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My friend was a stone Mason
built houses made of words
usually rhyming, I suppose,
but that really matters not-
the message is the essence,
the reason...we build
our worlds the...

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Life Weary, So Hungry I Could Eat A Dry Bone


Trekking through fire breathing desert, yes all alone
Mouth full of sand, shattered heart so heavy too
Life...

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Olive Frazier

1854 – 1895

To my many august friends,
Mere survivors under this hungry consuming California sky.
Before you can reach high to the stars, my friends,
Both feet...

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I once knew a bricklayer named Bruno 
And a lunatic known as Joan, 
A Buddhist some called Judas 
And a policeman who was always stoned.

Now...

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I once dated a chef …
I was worried about getting a bun in the oven
But when I saw him mincing across the kitchen
I knew I...

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In the late 1970s I was a bricklayer, and for about half a year we worked in a new housing allotment along a state highway...

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They Said

Don’t talk when big people are talking
Leave their presence now, start walking
Be a good boy don’t ever backchat
Greet a big person, take off your...

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Words are the tools of my trade
a carpenter choses to use wood
with which great things he makes
my choice will always be words

Just like an artist,...

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What will they do with Grandma?

What will they do with Grandma, now that she is old?
No longer able to fend for herself, by her home-help...

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Do not tell me they are job creators

Sitting and watching their money

Like pit bulls

Deaf to the screams of the innocent

Web designer lawyer and bricklayer alike

At...

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He was told he was gifted at an age of ten, 
Gifted in every subject that he had.
His mum said he would become a prodigy,...

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Rebuilding what was torn down
might take endless effort,
and it can be definitely done
without recalling the hurt.


To visualize it again,
it's putting together the ideas 
that started...

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so blank after the exit
so pale after the discoloring incident
i am a blue bricklayer in a red town world
my heart has callouses 
my mind has...

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