Bricklayer
Bricklayer
No crime in hard work.
I earned it.
Always worth it.
I’m a bricklayer.
Stack the weights.
Never show up late.
Put on the music.
Get to work.
Don’t put down the weights.
Feed the machine.
How bad do you want it?
No going back.
Born to starve.
Hungary for more.
Be a warrior.
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Categories:
bricklayer, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
The Bricklayer
His wheelbarrow wobbled
Across the broken sidewalk
Toward the job site
Where the work was
Some girls in yellow taxis rode by and whistled at his tanned arms.
His brown boots got chalked
as he scuttled and scooted
The heavy load
And he thought about her
Again
He was so clean and polished last night
When they sat down
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Categories:
bricklayer, break up, heartbroken, i
Form: Free verse
Ballerina Marries a Bricklayer
Third day on her honeymoon
Sharon asks Butch what it's like
for a man before he gets married.
A bricklayer by trade,
and a man of few words,
Butch doesn’t know what to say
but he knows Sharon has always
liked to go bowling; in fact,
that’s how this odd couple met.
So he tries an analogy although
he
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Categories:
bricklayer, love,
Form: Blank verse
The Bricklayer
Daily toil is yours
Bricks all laid in perfect form
Art from skilful hands
For my talented husband
have read a few great senryu today and thought I'd try one.
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Categories:
bricklayer, art
Form: Senryu
The Bricklayer Poet
My friend was a stone Mason
built houses made of words
usually rhyming, I suppose,
but that really matters not-
the message is the essence,
the reason...we build
our worlds the way we wish
our buildings of words
are strong willed.
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Categories:
bricklayer, family, friendship, inspirational, on
Form: Free verse