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Best Forklift Poems

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Question Number Eight
With spring approaching quickly and milk is upon the rise,
our factory employs seasonal workers to resize,
the employee pool to accommodate the milk intake,
which means twenty-four...

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Categories: forklift, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Lady De Leisure
There once lived a woman called Lady-de Leisure, who turned not to men, but food for 
pleasure.
She ate everything spicy and sticky and sweet, the...

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Categories: forklift, death, food, funny, peoplefood,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Same Blue Collar Guy
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...

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Categories: forklift, childhood, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member One More Day
One more Day

Life is pointless, let’s end it all.
I'm not Brad Pitt and you’re not Lauren Bacall.
I drive a forklift and you stack shelves.
We’re only...

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© Dave Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forklift, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Samantha Kinghorn
Sammi was crushed in snow and ice, 
Under the beam of a forklift truck, 
Being driven by her dad on his farm, 
Such that her...

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Categories: forklift, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme



Mingling Like Mmmmmmmmm
What is the difference between a digger, a forklift truck, a spoon, and a toaster? None. Bread slices can be carried by forklifts and bread...

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Categories: forklift, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Pallets, Jacks, and the Soft Sounds of the 70's Or My Summer Summed Up Summarily For a Small Sum
Pallets, Jacks, and the Soft Sounds of the 70's
OR
My Summer Summed Up Summarily for a Small Sum
A constant beeping chirp echoes through the warehouse, strangely...

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Categories: forklift, anxiety, depression, philosophy, work,
Form: Free verse
The Layoff
more the norm than the exception
in this wonderful capitalist rape room
where coming into work can mean
leaving early without a job & a
pink slip, with a...

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Categories: forklift, life, work, day, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rag Factory
This factory has the bales delivered. Bales of unwanted, disused, thrown about, torn up, ripped and antiquated clothes. Once loved but not now. Bales measured...

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Categories: forklift, beautiful, business, death, freedom,
Form: Prose
An Ant Is Making a Buffet Today
One day a skinny pole was wading through the swamp when it happened upon a typhoon resting by a small tree. Oh hello said the...

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Categories: forklift, adventure, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Oracles
A secret is granted
any curb captain
listening.

To speak rarely and
with roots.

Blake wears a hardhat,
drives a forklift for
Metal Products.

Whitman collects
unemployment in the mail.

New words
are mined coal.

They are...

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Categories: forklift, jobs, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Personification
Four Percent Measured Metric Millimeters Movingly
4% mnm
Mountainous syllables can never really tread lightly across a rope bridge. But living in a cabbage house is fantastic fun for many leaves make...

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Categories: forklift, appreciation, arabic, aubade, fashion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Team
The Team.   

Here we are in Gayndah town, 
The parks are all filled up. 
With Caravans and Motor homes,
‘N’ Backpackers trying their luck.

The...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forklift, fruit, people, places, work,
Form: Rhyme
Things I Learned In My Old Age
A Quote by: Saint Augustine 

Truth is like a Lion, you don't have to defend it, let it loose, it will defend itself.

Layers upon layers...

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Categories: forklift, truth,
Form: Free verse
Six Months Part 1
Six months 

crazy crazy crazy. they said 
man "you have to be crazy 
shes 6 months pregnant man 
whats wrong man''cant you see 

the words...

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Categories: forklift, beautiful, beauty, devotion, life,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things