Best Workman Poems

Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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August eighth nineteen thirty-seven her tiny Spirit thus landed on
This distant planet, within a parallel universe her newborne galaxy..
Ancient eyes gazing as yet but another...

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"It is known that the Bible, in its hundreds of different translations, is the most widely distributed book in human history. The bible has been...

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I hammered some words
Out from the quarry of my brain
They fell around in shards;
Some like boulders, 
Some like rocks and rubble 
I picked them up...

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In the beginning, was the word of God that is and always will be,
Forever endure throughout time,
Will never come back to Him void,
They will accomplish...

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They came yesterday, early as dawn itself

They came with shovels and trowels

To give protection from the winter

To the rose bushes that you loved

Shortly after lunch...

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Take your own sweet time, and let others keep time.
Tea for two always ends up in a hell-uv-a bellowing brew ;    
...

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TIME FLIES by Jeanette Jones 
based on PORTRAIT NO 9 
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham




TIME FLIES


Early still, I rise again. 
For...

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The morning sun just rising, glaring;

a damp, colder, workaday street ...

fallen leaves scattered,

Halloween mere days away:


Suddenly:  Startled by the workman:

A stray, jet-black cat

frightenedly slinking...

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Dressed in a red petticoat
And grey damask gown
Trimmed with fur
She walked to the scaffold

Recalling her king’s love
Denying charges against her
Thinking of her daughter 

She knelt...

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A life without end in sight!  Fed up, I hibernate.
A sleep like the dead, until I wake,
I yawn, nod, doze and wake again.
Yet I...

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You're an individual.
 You're unique. 
And it's important that you 
create the space to 
express your uniqueness, 
and become the fully expressed, 
fully unleashed, 
fully...

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Part 3  --  Sir Christopher Wren

"Resurgam".  What a righteous word it is!
The Latin form of "I will rise again".
I'd like it on...

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Learning is fun…
…attested by my Geography class 
enabling me to own a Madrid post card prize 
in finding Segovia midst jigsaw puzzle bits.

Learning becomes a...

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The Practical Joker

By Elton Camp

Joe, by a paving contractor, was employed
Practical jokes were what he most enjoyed

When an extra pair of boots he spied
Another of...

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