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Premium Member Occupation
They came in silence,
moving through the speckled shadows of the dawn
half-life
half-something else;
a strangeness

They came in with the news,
not in it
not carrying it to us;
but with the news they arrived,
silently.

We only read the words,
but with the reading,
we knew they had arrived
and what was ours
was passing from...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupation, allegory, angst, death, family,
Form: Free verse
The Occupation
The Occupation

Before all of this
before all of the universe
even before the super speck singularity
there existed Alpha and Omega
that is to say that,
there was only the very quiet and very still
infinite future of endless possibilities
existing everywhere and all at once 
a present unrealized and undefined
no beginning...

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© Mark Beal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupation, epictime, time, planet, universe,
Form:
Occupation: Cobbler
Never have I known myself so well.
Never have I ever been more glad I've been through hell.
Never have my shoes been so worn,
Or my heart been so torn.

But though my heart is heavy
My head is high.
My pace is steady!
Never have I ever been more ready.

Man,...

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Categories: occupation, endurance, strength,
Form: Lyric

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Premium Member 'occupation' Troops
Guess I'll ne'er understand those loony loons

   Shaking their fists at the Wall Street tycoons

      The Tea Party did it right

         They didn't leave filth and blight

   ...

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Categories: occupation, people,
Form: Limerick
Poetic Occupation
As a poet I am told
I am a "maker" in Greek
I am a "seer" in Latin 
taking words and plucking them
from the primordial void 
plucking from the infinite fields 
grazing in the tall lush grass
sucking on succulent peaches 
in the golden brown sun 

I take...

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Categories: occupation, passion
Form: Free verse
Occupation
In stark terror, 
the hard-liners had 
announced; the morning 
birds will not sing henceforth.

I was not interested- 
in protecting myself.
The paradox had sneaked into 
the fallen angel.

Waiting for the holy tree 
to take some action.
The creeping killer was 
going to occupy the rose bud’s land.

The...

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Categories: occupation, art,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Occupation Destination
OCCUPATION DESTINATION  

Hey, remember the flamboyant Mr and Mrs Black,
Heard they are back,
And in actual fact,
Mr. lost his job, gave his boss too much flak!

Employees had gone missing, it was reputed
That something strange,
Was actually in range,
The rumours could not be pinpointed or disputed!

The ‘Blacks’...

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Categories: occupation, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Raven's Occupation
THE RAVEN'S OCCUPATION

       You, Raven-- perch with cocky snap upon my window ledge--
       Who has called you hence and bid you whisper out my name?
       Is there...

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Categories: occupation, on work and working,
Form: Blank verse
War on happiness
Cries of humanity
Cries of war
War that kills
War imposed upon kids 
Kids as pure as a Mother’s love
Kids with million dreams
Dreams that are shattered 
Dreams destroyed by weapons 
Weapons unleashed on living beings 
Weapons that spare not even trees
Trees that make the air clean
Trees look pleasing...

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Categories: occupation, happiness, holocaust, peace, war,
Form: Blitz
Ghanaian culture diversity
On the coast of gold(Ghana) where ethnic cultures intertwines like glittering and colourful 'bonwire' kente
A vibrant tapestry of diversity divine. 
Starting from the South where the powerful Ashanti real heritage
Tracing to the Fante coastal tales of the sea
Across the Nzema fishing net cast upon the...

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Categories: occupation, africa, art, celebration, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Trucking Tale
Young trainee driver behind the wheel blurt out a helpless damn
Were starting down hill brakes are gone I'm afraid were in a jam
To the old trucker in the bunk what should I do
His reply your behind the wheel it's up to you
Straight up in the...

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Categories: occupation, funny, jobs, work,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Poet
”He is a Poet”, It was said of him. 
And so they sought in proof a poem, made alone for them.
A tome for all the ages, every eye, and every ear.
Words of witness dedicating prose, to those would hear.
So he complied. Rolled up his muscled...

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Categories: occupation, identity, jobs, literature, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Time In Nursery School
One time when I was in nursey school, Miss Shanahan had everyone sit in a circle and one-by-one say what we wanted to be when we grow up.

It was what you’d expect…
Doctor
Firefighter
Astro naught
Truck driver
Race car driver
Veterinarian
Police officer
Movie star
Baseball player
Actress
Princess
Detective
Engineer…and the like

Then it was my turn:

“What...

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Categories: occupation, child, funny, god,
Form: Free verse
Ghanaian culture diversity
On the coast of gold(Ghana) where ethnic cultures intertwines like glittering and colourful 'bonwire' kente
A vibrant tapestry of diversity divine. 
Starting from the South where the powerful Ashanti real heritage
Tracing to the Fante coastal tales of the sea
Across the Nzema fishing net cast upon the...

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Categories: occupation, africa, art, celebration, culture,
Form: Free verse
Tears in Gaza
The wives wail for their fallen husbands' embrace,
The children's tears fall on their mothers' lifeless face,
Men beg for mercy from soldiers in the fray,
I weep, powerless to save them from this dismay.

Displaced and far from home,
Amidst the rubble, they're forced to roam.
Decaying remains of neighbors...

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Categories: occupation, faith, freedom, grief, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

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