Best Toilers Poems
Toilers At the TrenchPlunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.
Attached to shovel handles were the arms of skeletons - of men,
who pausing, hacked and wheezed; then bent and smote the dirt again.
With bruised decrepit bodies -...
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Categories:
toilers, history, sad,
Form:
Couplet
Toilers of the DarkTopsy turvy lives,
we lead.
We rare ones,
a special breed,
not all can be.
Sunrise is sleep,
mid-day slumber.
The moon, our luminary.
We awaken
with lengthening shadows.
Hallway haunters are we....
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Categories:
toilers, business, on work and
Form:
Free verse