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Best Job For Life Poems

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A Job For Life
A job that's appointed for life
Is bound to cause some people strife
     For over the years
     Annoyance...

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Categories: job for life, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Corporate Control
I always feel hungry
yet dare not complain
it may set a precedent,
believing I am the fodder
the factory keeps feeding on my
infinite illusions.
The Radio talkback show tells...

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Categories: job for life, angst, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Her Way To No Where Town
She wandered into the prissy bathroom hating it for its prettiness.
There were all kinds of trinkets and knickknacks
She reached for two, and threw them onto...

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Categories: job for life, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Troy and Trinity
Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child...

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Categories: job for life, angel, baby, city, education,
Form: Free verse
Chopsticks
A chopstick is just a utensil.
But a chopstick can
trigger that
uncontrollable laughter
and smiles at the dinner table.
When one snaps, we chuckle.
When someone can’t use them properly,
we...

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© Ryan Zhao  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: job for life, character, desire, hope, perspective,
Form: Free verse



The Feeling of Anxiety
Scared of what? I can't say 
I got to go, have to getaway 
Heart begins to thump, to race wild 
Feeling frightened, alike a child...

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© Amar Qamar  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: job for life, angst, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Imagism
If My Dream Could Come True...Winner In Carol Brown's Contest By the Same Name
I would build a center for learning,
Working title: Community Wellspring
Where people would come to learn new skills and new ways
To earn a living in these...

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Categories: job for life, business, computer-internet, education, on
Form: Free verse
A Pocketful of Dreams
I’ve got a pocketful of dreams
And very little else
What I have I give to others 
And keep nothing to myself

I spread myself too thin
And tire...

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Categories: job for life, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Corporate Annual Assessment
I always feel hungry
yet I dare not scoff
it may set a precedent.
(“My TV’s begging for Africa again!”)
Yet! I believe I am the fodder
everyone keeps feeding...

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Categories: job for life, work,
Form: Free verse
Lonesome Cowboy
I heard tell some folks think cowboys built the West.
The only thing I know for sure is I always did my best
to give a man...

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Categories: job for life, horse, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Opportunity presents
Exciting turn of events
New job, new life, it makes sense
Toughest question that I know
Should I stay or should I go
My mind pulls me to...

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Categories: job for life, career, conflict, leaving, life,
Form: Rhyme
Peace On Earth
Driving through this neighborhood 
Of boarded houses, nothing good 
A scary feeling wraps me tight 
I shouldn't be here late at night 
My brother called,...

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Categories: job for life, brother, peace, me, peace,
Form: Ballad
Behind the Pyramid With Ra and Nut
Let’s just call each other  Ra and Nut  ok?  
      No need to be formal here behind...

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Categories: job for life, funny, god, me, blue,
Form: Prose Poetry
On the ----Ng Over of Chelsea Welch: Part Ii
now…what does a “pastor” do?
hmmm…a “pastor” reads to a flock of sheep from a work of
fiction, much like a mother might read to a small...

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Categories: job for life, life, work, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fridge
Monday

                 It has come to my attention, that someone...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: job for life, humor, work,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs