Best Trades Poems

you're a D.J
you're a preacher
a carer or
 a teacher
you're a painter
you're a builder
you're a bouncer
or announcer
you're a chef!
you're a doctor
you're a dentist
 you're a chemist
or a nurse!
you're a lawyer
you're a sales rep
or a vet!
 all having your possesions
 all having your professions
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Robin what you doing in the hood
Man I thought I’d be up to no good
What you mean slick
I guess I’ll go rob a store bust windows with a brick

Man you tripping that ain’t even serious
Who me Robin my hood yes that’s curious
I thought the plan...

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At work 
I slave away
And during the day 
I read, I watch
I plan, I dream
Setting goals 
Making everything seem
That in a few years it will all come together
But in a few years will all of this matter?

I’m a jack of all trades
But a master at...

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"Hello I'm Johnny Cash" his warm hearted greeting;
they knew it was the man in black they were meeting.

And this color black is also well favored
by those whose lifestyle is "goth" flavored.

Ladies all over have closets brimming
with black clothes which are supposedly slimming!

There's the black heart...

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Exactly when did we begin to forget
To appreciate life in all it's glory and magnificence? 
How can we estimate freedom or it's price, how
are we to teach our children anything...
In the face of such distortion.

We westerners expect to be treasured and esteemed-
then cry a river...

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His arms hold her captive in their embrace,
drifting through the fabric of time and space.
For swaddled in an ebony cocoon,
She can't shed her wings till the next full moon.

Her beauty emphasizes her sad state,
a creature of feelings; She chose her fate.
And defiant to the bitter-sweet...

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Raised by apes as a
feral child in the wild,
was as a young man
discovered by a rich American
anthropologist hiker who was retired,
taken back by plane
to his new homeland,
he started assimilating
by wearing regular attire,
they tutored him how to
read and write, and
after several years he
finally got to graduate,
landed...

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He is a jack of all trades

using all his senses

mastering none...

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Dying Trades

The stone mason

he was old now
his hands unsteady.
The eyesight fading.
in winter he worked
inside his barn.
it could let the rheumatic
cool down to let him work
for an hour or more.
His grandfather had
apprenticed his father.
and he had apprenticed him.
and now his son was apprenticed.
The tools were the...

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Jack-of-all-trades
  master of none
like a swiss-army knife
  he gets the job done

polite with the ladies
  all business with men
keep his number handy
  you're gonna call him again...

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Once was a jack-of-all-trades, no longer, not now
To screw in a lightbulb, my wifey shows me how
Do I turn it right or left
Used to have success
Next time won't need help I do vow...

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Harsh Trades (Child Custody)

My daughter is home.
Back from her fathers, 
house. 
She smiled and hugged,
me,
at the door.

Now…, safe.

I do not see marks, 
I do not see bruises, 
All is well?
Except for the ones,
un-found.

An evil kind of penance,
paid on my behalf, 
for leaving, 
and forsaking,
being beaten...

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We all knew Jack or someone like him,
But we thought time had passed by him,
We even sang the odd hymn,
To mark the passing on of him.

But alas he has returned to carry on where he left off
Knowing every job the ins and outs of.
That others...

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Once a jack-of-all-trades, no longer, not now
To screw in a lightbulb, wifey shows me how
Turning it right or left
Used to have success
Next time I promise I won't need help I vow...

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Once was a jack-of-all-trades, no longer, not now
To screw in a lightbulb, wifey shows me how
Turning it right or left
Used to have success
Next time I'll probably fall off the ladder, kerpow!...

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