Best Self Employed Poems


The Ice Cream Truck
...the ice cream truck

do you remember in fourth grade when it was the end of the school year?
kids running around in class, volunteer parents planning for field day events, teachers grading tests.
a y......

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© Joey Foto  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self employed, girl, girlfriend, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Young Whipper Snappers
...Was self-employed for thirty-five years
So when I finally called it quits
No big party, no expensive gold watch
No well wishers, no funny quips

As I quietly sailed off into the sunset
I hear......

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Categories: self employed, retirement, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Xenophobia- Target the Bird Not the Tree
...Seems as a country full of saints and carriers of purity
as all crimes are interestingly attributed to outsiders
tagging them the influential teachers of immorality
yet such crime lovers s......

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Categories: self employed, africa, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Epic

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Premium Member The Job Interview
...The HR person called me in… I was turning gray… Was he even twenty-one?
I wondered if the interview would go well, as he did fung shui the chairs around.
Offered a caramel expresso mocha late decaf, ......

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Categories: self employed, adventure, career, change, computer,
Form: Light Verse
Woman-Owned Business Maker
...Self-employed and partner in life
He "hired" some other guy's wife
Making golfing balls
Now he has two holes
My new business ?...Surgical Knives...

for Carolyn Devonshire's "Horrible Bosses"......

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Categories: self employed, funny, husband,
Form: Limerick
I Am Ok
...Yes, "Foolproof" did win third place and you sent your "Congrats"
Even before the judging I felt your sympathy
The heartfelt comments, from the very first to the last 
Excepting our Sidney, who so......

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Categories: self employed, introspection, thank you,
Form: Rhyme


Cornfields
...She runs in the cornfields
 Got twigs in her hair
Playing with her dog tilly
Her only friend out there

She grew up on a farm
  Fish by the water fall
Likes playing in the barn
Looking cute d......

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Categories: self employed, life, city, love, new
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Veteran
...He's burnt obsidian black
Tall and handsome as a matter of fact
This son on scooter, around Town.

If you could see him now
He's tireless Veteran with duodenal ulcer
That ballooned in the Middl......

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Categories: self employed, america, angel, character, forgiveness,
Form: Bio
A Vendor's Life
...A Vendor's Life

At times, sleepless nights, 
 Filled with worry and fears;
 The life of a vendor 
Means laughter and tears.

Patience and perseverence
 Are essential and soon learned.
An ex......

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© Lisa Webb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self employed, career, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Street Dogs
...mid night street dogs howl
                                   all they are unpaid watchers
                                       self employed workers

                                        fi......

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Categories: self employed, dog,
Form: Haiku
Ooniversal Oo
...OOOniversal oo

Frightened tepid antisocial ant was football training avidly but failing to attend a fragrant tailor army. Oh dear. That was sure to be put forward to the sacred sanction ship and t......

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Categories: self employed, absence, adventure, angst, anti
Form:
Self-Employed
...Star-dash cars now zip along the street,
Winking into town,
Awerving like party-colored leaves
Surfing the wind.

Everyone's going going going SOMEwhere!
Gone.  Here?  Yes!
Straight to the top......

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Categories: self employed, business
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Gossip
...Self employed without wages
just to keep others popular
no headline dissociates from her lips......

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Categories: self employed, character,
Form: Senryu
Street Cleaner
...The Street Cleaner 
He is not a lucky man, but he is happy but one day he won on a lottery ticket, 
not a not a big sum of money but enough to by wheelbarrow got permission 
from the local council......

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Categories: self employed, absence, abuse, analogy, business,
Form: Ballade
Jonathan Drane
...Jonathan was a self-employed plumber, 
Before a diagnosis of corneal dystrophy, 
So he moved out as a plumbing worker, 
And began playing judo professionally. 

He’d done judo as a youth, came e......

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Categories: self employed, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
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