Best Labors Poems

Of The Famed Labors Of Hercules
ninth poet, poet dedication series, Emma Lazarus

Through Time's mesmerizing and meandering paths,
Colossus of heroic worship rightly praised,
He that vented his strength and fought with half-god wrath;
Mighty Son of Zeus, his feats that this world amazed,
Carved in stone, sculptor Vincenzo de’...

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Dusky twilight foam.
Ever flowing nearing shore.
No more suffering.


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everybody works
coral dawn to ruby sun
season to season

creativity
expressing all hopes and dreams
of a blooming world

nine to five caring
with all your heart hanging out
to nurture loved ones

it makes the stars shine
and bluebirds sing on a loop
and colors our lives...

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I've tried to be patient
I've tried to understand
I've stood by your side
Because you're my man

I've put up with your lies
I've put up with your ways
I've heard many stories
And yet I stay

I've given my love
I've given my trust
I've given my all
For what, your lust?

I've opened my...

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In punishment now
My labor be done
By Heaven divine
Conviction is won

Twelve efforts twelve years
Too much to conceive
With club and a bow
Although I'm bereaved

The mighty enforce
Has stolen the day
From King and alike
And naught but to say...

"I've finished these deeds
You've asked to perform
I must go back home
And weather...

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Life's Labors Lost

She thought she was a coffee barista!
Alas, she found at this, shewas far from being an artista!

She headed off next to the nearest, prestigious 
bartender school.

Indeed, the clumsy woman, made a perfect drink
but broke her leg, tripping over a bar stool!

She then, took...

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She will take a bus today; it will be an old bus on a long 
taken journey. The factory is a derelict shell. She cannot smell 
the dereliction, she smells the walls and the ranks of machines 
that thunder and hiss inside a grey vault...

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Lo,  the lonely labors of lifeless list lyrical lost love labors~


12/23/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Rest From My Labors
by Lanier Thomas

I’ve been acquainted with war and violence
And escaped, me thought, to a land of silence.
But war followed me and gave me no rest, hence
I must meet, face to face, war’s dread countenance.

I will have no peace till my foes lie...

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To hands that toil from dawn till night,
In sun's harsh blaze or fading light,
You build the world we proudly see,
With silent strength and dignity.

You mend the roads, you sow the land,
With weathered skin and calloused hands.
Your sweat is ink on history's page,
Your spirit—brave, no gilded...

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Labor and perform your duties as you patiently wait
to enter that Divine , Heavenly, and Pearly Gate.
Continually be clothed in your Spiritual Armor,
knowing that Satan is tricky and quite a charmer!



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Long-term, limitless, lingering love literally lightens life's labors.

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Gleeful roses turn to sullen churls,
And virgin smiles of shyest brides
Soonest morph into widowed furls;
Sad victims of your ill-bladed tides. 

Swearing lovers of staunchest troth
Must sample your bitterest swill too,
And forfeit bonds of grandest worth,
As you gaily gloat like vilest foes do. 

Most ardent toilers...

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Oh, man, a marvel of creation's might,
A distinctive being, with zeal and passion bright.
Ever ready to toil, to provide and to sustain,
The weight of family responsibilities, he bears with no complaint.

From dawn till dusk, he labors with unwavering dedication,
Enduring the slings of insult, from superior...

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