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Best Work Your Fingers To The Bone Poems

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Premium Member I Remember When
I suppose I'm revealin' my age as I compose this little ditty,
But as I compare costs today with yesteryear I exclaim, "What a pity!"
Gas cost...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Gifts of Love
I used to say I love you, many years ago –
My passion-cries were wings of flight!
Like burning arrows pierced upon a snowy night,
I loosed my...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, life, love, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Election Day
“Election Day” 
by:  Eric L. Boddie

By plane, train, bus, car or boat 

I’ll travel the Earth to win your vote 

I can’t say when...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, crush, emotions, love, women,
Form: Ballad
The Master From Hell
I feel like I live in a dark and dreary cave because drugs are my master and I am it's slave. I use all my...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, addiction, allegory, encouraging, faith,
Form: Epic
Sonnet For the Noughties!
Come live with me, and be my mistress!
No old-fashioned “man and wife”!
We’ll share the things you have in common …
Who wants to live the single...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, funny, parody
Form: Quatrain



Modern Women
A woman’s work is never done
although they do it all for fun,
while men just idle through the day
convinced that they all earn their pay.

When work...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, change, men, women,
Form: Rhyme
Death Is Sick and Tired
Death is sick and tired of dying
and yet he wakes up at the crack of dawn
and put's on his noose necktie
and stiches his broken, beating...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, death, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
River Blues
Lyrics by Shannon Farlouis Music and Vocals by David Reinstein/Associated Content.com



I work my fingers to the bone,
all day long, all day long.
Then I'll find my...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, depression, hope, life, music,
Form: Lyric
Life In a Dream of Paradise
A SILENT SLUMBER TOOK MY HEART TO A DREAMLAND
MY OWN THOUGHTS CAME UP AND A DREAM STARTED TO PLAY
A RISING SUN IN A NEW DAY...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, happiness, imagination, dream, peace,
Form: I do not know?
Mighty Dollar
She sold her soul 
For a dollar
She washed folks’ clothes
For the mighty dollar
Left her kids untended
Barely fed, bewildered
In tears, questioning everything
For the mighty mighty……
Left her...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, money,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Free Advice Is Just That
These days it's clearly the fashion
To tell college grads: "Follow your passion."
Yet consider this quick note of caution:
  Make sure with your passion you'll...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, career, graduation, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Motivate
We're getting ready, for a big operation.
It's all across the nation.
And you know, we'll be working hard..

Motivate-Vate-Vate-Vate...
Keep on going.
Keep on rolling.
Keep it moving everyday..

We'll generate...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Fades To Black
I'm a country boy, american made.
I work my fingers to the bone and barely get paid.
I've had heartache in the days gone by.
While they're lost...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, loss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Taste Freedom
Education starts at home
  Work kids' fingers to the bone
Pile up the chores after school
  Then on to homework
    ...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, america, children, education, freedom,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Grandmother
Loyal to her husband, church and kids
How can I start to explain all that she did?
I speak these words because they are true
Grandma never did...

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Categories: work your fingers to the bone, dedicationme, grandmother, grandmother, me,
Form: Couplet

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