Best Minimum Poems

haiku poetry
seventeen syllables poem
now i am finished...

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There was a young woman with daughter

She worked more hours than she oughta

Worked her fingers to the bone

Needed a payday loan

To pay for the shoes that she bought her...

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Minimum wage.

Sometimes i lie in bed and feel the room 
shake and rattle as a train goes by. 
A train that sounds like a DC ten 
with three hundred lucky souls onboard. 

After it passes i listen to the arguments 
coming from the higher floors....

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Sunspots boil oceans
Cycles rage in ebb and flow
Rollercoaster life


04.06.22...

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For a good part of my life I have been trapped,
my mind and heart elsewhere, absent, in a box-
After the deaths and sadness I just stopped,
stopped caring and my emotions became frozen,
and I was a ghost of me, full of gloom and unhappiness.
It was all...

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The bar is empty except for me and some old memories.
The smoke flows to the celling as I sit underneath the neon sign.
recalling old friends and new regrets.

Miles behind me yet only a thought away.
I recall the feel of the embrace.
The tortured soul that guided...

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Short money,
long hours
End of another minimum wage day

Working class task,
sweat gaze into a ceiling of glass
Start of another yesterday factory pay

Punch the clock ... 
job requirement is knuckle bare minimum
Labor output don’t equal the paid sum

Advancement ain’t an option,
maximum effort is weekly inconsistent
Fire the lazy...

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Early morning, in the country,
Walking solo on the road,
I was texting with my husband 
In his slow strained-muscle mode

When I heard the bushes rustling
So I glanced off to the right
And the head of a black bear popped up,
An unexpected sight.

It was only for a moment,
But...

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two old poems
from the book
2000-2001



Minimum Wage

Pigeons coo
as Seagulls fly
in spiraling swarms above
(universal?)

Birds in anticipation of an unknown purchase
practice aerial acrobatics
**** spattered on fresh Windex streaks
Squeegee stopped mid stroke
and swaying as I scream skyward

Formations unaltered
unlike the boss’ face

Windex bottle shattered
blue liquid down the drain


Sand King

Atop the...

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Minimum wage

The olive trees in the landscape
near the village,
Have working-class trunks
and no illusion
Of becoming middle-class trees.
They refuse to grow 
in a plant- nursery and be tampered with
by botanists.
They do not envy tall palm trees.
Good luck to those who see the world 
through an elevated height.
Good...

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Absolute Minimum

f has an absolute minimum
at x=a if f(a) < f(x)
for all x in the domain of f
the y value f(a) is the
absolute value of f

I have absolutely no clue
what all this means
because math is not in my genes
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The minimum standard defining a man
  —taking care of his family

The minimum standard defining a woman
   —taking care of her man 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Forget fortune, I want appreciation for my poems.
Forget fame, I want recognition of my existence.
Forget reputation, I want realization of my dreams....

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We are the workers, call us 
an hour before an absent fill shift
The pyramid sprouts atop of
The heavy depths of broad ordinary, 
Breadth mopped and swept

Silent cogs push motion
Everywhere, rarely heralded
Carpet of field mice scrambling

Part of the pattern, crucial 
Expectations remain ingrained 
Pith of the...

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Let's hear it for us girls,
Coffee, meditation, the world,
Nothing to discuss,
Do stuff with a minimum of fuss!...

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