Best Company Poems
Another One Shuts Down (Corona virus version)
Gates and boards and reels of wire
Garbage by the gates
Driveway overgrown with grass
The factory is a state
Security checks once an hour
To make sure all's still locked
Another business shut it's door
the economy was rocked
Another workplace bites the dust
Another one shuts down
To find the business district here
You've got to leave the town
They're closing up 'bout one a month
Jobs are leaving by the score
When you leave, turn out the lights
And please folks, lock the door
Work is leaving faster than
It has ever in the past
There's more folks on assistance
How long will this all last?
Fifty years a hundred ten
Factories closing shop
There's more buildings that are vacant
Our growth came to a stop
It doesn't matter where you go
It's that damn covid one nine
If you are not essential
Out goes the "CLOSING" sign
It all comes down to profit
You're a number not a name
It doesn't matter where you go
Plant closure is the game
Another workplace bites the dust
Another one shuts down
To find the business district here
You've got to leave the town
They're closing up 'bout one a month
Jobs are leaving by the score
When you leave, turn out the lights
And please folks, lock the door
I left in desperation
when hunger drove me out,
Left behind a home and family
when I went walkabout.
I left all the cities,
moved through the country towns
Travelled ‘cross the Nullarbor,
up the Darling Downs,
I’ve been bleached by sun,
crossed land flat or hilly,
I’m never far away from,
the burnt and blackened billy.
Beside a lonely campfire
I watched the stars so bright,
Between despair and hope,
rolled out for the night.
I have seen a hundred miles,
from words of a callous mouth,
Travelled all the way up north,
when work was all down south.
From shearing shed to shearing shed;
and as each shed cut out,
I left with my master
into the unknown doubt,
I have rotted in the outback sun,
when times have got too tough,
The body stays and soul drifts on,
when my master cried ‘enough.’
One more shed, one more try,
to reach that mirage down the track …
I’ve been the company of many;
I am the swag upon their back.
A pet is part of the family
Whether it is a dog or cat
They are always there for you
When you are feeling sad
Or you are happy
Cat or dog
Company
For you
Loved
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10/24/2018
July 14
Melissa Fox
Your The Company I Want To Keep.
Rested in your arms,
Lost in your eyes,
The world disapears
When it's just you and I.
Your caress on my body
The way you take it in,
It's as if your an artist
Your canvas, my skin.
The trace of your finger,
Like a paint brush of means
Filling in the darkness
Where my soul used to be.
Replacing it with light,
And Color with Care
Creating a sparkle
that once was a blank stare.
‘ He’s Company ! … ’
He’s Not Down With Misery
and Not Out with The In(flated)-Crowds
But He’s Up On Lady Liberty …
Laughing, New York-Minute, Out Loud !
‘Cause … if Misery, Loves Company …
Company, Sure Don’t Love Misery !
Company … is Taking Care of Business
Strictly, Take into Account, Swiftness
… and Staying Out The Red
Things, Misery Cut and Bled
All Over His Spread-Sheets
Which, He Washed and Hung On Wall Street
Now… Here’s Her Penny for Your Thoughts Again …
Saying, ‘Get Me Out of This Rain-Check, Claim !
Man … She’s A Bottom-Line – Pain !
Boy, Throw Her Some Chunk-Change …
His Blank Check, is What Misery’s After
But, Company is The Man, and ‘ The Manager ‘
He’s Telling Misery, with Interest …
‘ … Girl, Stay Outta’ My Business !
… and I May Pay Misery A Visit …
‘Cause I’m Lady Liberty … Unlimited !
I’m Platinum, and I Got My Hand Up …
‘ Don’t Make Me Put It Down and Whip Your, You Know What !
‘Cause Company … Gets The Job Done !
Show Them How It’s Done … Hon !
Look … You Know You Got Lady Liberty
( and, I’m gonna Keep This Fortune 500 Company )
For: Jimbo (James Marshall Goff)
Business, Strictly Business (smile)
Because You Seem to Get
and Like, my Kooky, Double-Talking
Witticisms (Enjoy Between Your Classes)
and Keep That Education Coming
MoonBee
The wants of her heart beckoned of lonely streets
Longingly,
Like the summertime wail of the Snow Fence
When empty winds through weathered pickets
Howl for the cold company it keeps
Please don't cry baby
I know you're frighten
I know you're hungry
I know you're painful
I know you want something
I know you're asking for help
I know you want to follow
I know you want my company or escort
Oh, please don't cry baby
You'll have a lot of chances to cry
When you grow up
When you're sad you cry
When you're too nervous till you lost your control
You cry
When you're sick you cry
When you lost something valuable you cry
When you fail your exam you cry
When someone leave you you cry
When...
The sky cries too
It comes as rain
The sea cries too
It comes as towering waves
You know, mum cries too
Whenever you cry I cry
Please don't cry baby
Please tell me you're always happy
On a walk companioned by my Muse along the sylvan meadows
We wandered away to delightful realms in unclouded ambience
Don’t know how long I rambled warming my fancies in sunset fires
Must be for long, all lights were out, the quiet hamlet lay bathed in sleep
Above me, stood the starry firmament and the half hidden moon
Could see the vast plains stretching before me in moonlight, bare
My heart was flooded with joy, my fancies took to wings
Got drowned in Nature’s serene calm, my spirit lost in drunken ecstasy
In the gentle blowing breeze, the leaves twittered and murmured
All else was quiet and nothing disturbed the serenity of the night
But soon I knew the East wind strengthening around into a gale
And across the moon I could see stragglers of clouds moving past
I sat on a rock, lost, so lost staring into the clear night sky
Wondering how the celestial joy, made manifest by the twinkling stars
My thoughts began floating like a ship over the briny waters
And my temporal settings faded away like a cloud in the horizon
From the nearby woods, I heard the song of a lone night bird
In rising cadence, alone and aloud it fell on my rapturous ears
Was it a nightingale that poured forth that dewy delight?
Was it the same song, Keats heard long ago cascading from the woods?
With my Muse in this unearthly hour let me sit awhile in this solitary bower
To my paper, let my fancies in unbroken crystal streams flow
Wonder if I can rightly recreate the image that my thoughts enfold
How I wish, I could like Coleridge, build a pleasure dome in mid air!
First posted on Nov.28. 2021
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Sponsor:Mark Toney
You brought god to me, but told me we must wait
You brought the devil too, he said name your date
Decided to cut my losses, meet everyone half way
For a life of heaven and hell, I wed you right away
I am the swan
with a broken wing —
Not knowing where
my old flock has gone.
I drift now amidst
embracing lilies, who
Have long and dearly kept
my pleas for close company…
Thus, whenever hunters near,
The lilies ask along with me,
If
Angels still come
To wipe away
Tears of tragedy?
(c) sally eslinger 2/2025
Too much company
Kill the company,
What am I going to think?
About those curious people?
What am I going to think?
Why sailors are celebrating.
Too much solitude,
Kill the solitude,
What am I going to think?
Of the inert stone,
What am I going to think?
Looking at the gibbous moon?
Too much company,
Kill the company,
What am I going to think?
Of those talkative children,
Am I going to escape?
Those pale snakes?
Too much loneliness,
Kill the loneliness,
What am I going to think?
Of these Tuaregs
Masking their face
With deep blue veil?
Too much company,
Kill the company,
How my mother suffered
From these pale nurses,
How my mother suffered
From the devil who sits?
Too much solitude,
Can enchant the eyes,
What are we going to think?
Brilliant poets,
Tell me dear solitude,
Do you really exist?
Too much company,
Kill the company,
What do they have in mind?
Some bananas, some mangoes,
Fruit and grapes,
So man feeds himself,
Turn off this radio,
Think of the black cormorant,
Turn off that TV,
Look at the sea,
What is this fantasy?
Too much company
Kill the company.
Wake me up with a nice coffee,
wake me up with your breeze,
your kisses and your company.
Such a delightful awakening
to have your warmth,
your friendship, affection and love.
Wake me up in the cold,
I feel heated in your arms
beyond the stars,
this is my paradise.
These days of troubled waters,
I found myself sailing
in a loved strange sea.
Your boat came into my harbour
and I found a dock
They are coming
They never do
It is a first in a long time
I will not focus on the fact
That it is their turn
The road runs two ways
And they have not been here for five years
Releasing all disappointment and anger
into the wind, I relax and think how much fun
we will have. It will be joyous! A great time!
They are coming!
They are really coming!
I will be the hostess with the most-ess.
Wait.
Does this mean
I will have to clean?
By their company kept by them both
It has been known and a given fact
That many, many monsters are known
to lived in and on our land.
it was raised in bottles of different shapes
and sizes and that's the only time you ever
want to be real, real friends with me.
Tobacco than knocks at yours door and you
try to force them on us.
We call this bad company an when you come
visit us please remind the bottles and the
tobacco that all must be kept on the porch.
When they finish chatting, playing cards than
they pick the bad company outside the door