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Labor Day
Lonely hours, seems
You've lived quite often
Silence in the shame
Of your sacred day
Blue light through your eyes
Shines an open coffin
Gleaming miracles on the way
Broken windows
Winter broken...

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Categories: dark, i am, labor
Form: I do not know?



Labor Day Poem
The broad 
masses 
    of the American 
people 
   celebrate on Labor day 
      ...

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Categories: holiday, work, labor day,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Labor Day
Labor Day
By Franklin Price
9/7/2015

Labor day is so confusing
We celebrate our job
Yet anyone who's laboring
Is not part of the mob

The majority have taken off
For this antonymic...

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Categories: holiday, wine, labor day,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day Observations
Tell me again
This wealth you gasp and clamour for
This strategy you wield
From the invincible substratum
Where the hunt pursues the frenzied heart
And the congestive traffic of...

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Categories: labor, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Night I Dreamt
Of january starting a new year

Of heart messages written on colored paper in february 

and my birthday in april 
 
of green cabbage and corned...

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Categories: holiday, labor day, ,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Special Days
Special Days
Written: by Tom Wright
4/13/2006

It seems that for almost everything
We’ve set aside a special day.
We recognize others for their work 
And sometimes for their play;

There’s...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: labor, day, humor, satire, new
Form: Rhyme
Alliteration Holiday
Labor day holiday is laughingly laborious
Pack a punch of partying
On one only lonely playful day
Tonight the trio sets the timepiece to 
alarm again in the...

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Categories: funny, holiday, labor day,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Memory of May First
To give a correct memory to May
On my computer’s Internet I look 
Where I find stories of courageous way.

And in my mind I see remind...

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Categories: work, labor day,
Form: Terza Rima
Holidays With a Change In the Weather
Holidays with a change in the weather

      It starts with a chill in the air.  January the first day...

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Categories: holiday, labor day, cinco
Form: Rhyme
Go Blue-Into the Blue Contest
GO BLUE!!
University of Michigan Football- Into The Blue Contest


Labor Day comes it's college football season
     my family has been waiting all...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blue, color, football, labor
Form: Quatrain
Wearing White
Check your closets and your drawers;
Summer's end is almost here.
Labor Day’s the signal
Certain clothes must disappear.

For we know the custom dictates
That this holiday’s approach
Means that...

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Categories: clothes, summer, labor day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member September Tanka
SEPTEMBER SONG - triple tanka

Like a lover's sigh
She tiptoes forth    looking back -
Those warm memories -
Birds    still singing ...

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Categories: labor, life, music, naturehappy, happy,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Yard Sale
Another holiday has come to pass and I am no prouder to be an American than when it started.

What are these holidays for I ask...

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Categories: holiday, presidents day, labor
Form: Prose
Holding On To Summer
Summer freedom came when the

last bell rang, telling us that summer

vacation had started.

No more teachers telling us what to do,

no more homework, until after Labor...

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Categories: childhood, freedom, labor day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Late August - From a Neighborhood Child
LATE AUGUST

It’s late August    with Labor Day on my mind
Something sharp and indistinct is in the air
I sense it all along my...

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Categories: labor, childhood, school, august, school,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs