Metaphor Career Poems

I dreamed my way here
I’ve had my cringe moments
I feel pressure, I lose perspective
I’ve wholeheartedly failed
I misspeak, underthink, overreact
I try to do the right thing
the...

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Doing work white collar job but dirt underneath,
  Fragrance with scent on shirt but smell under me,
  Flourished outside but rotten inside,
 ...

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Like fisherman caught
Using earthworm as live bait,
Catch fish through its mouth....

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sat in a prison of my making
dark holes in piled skulls
an unwelcome reminder

I am nothing like that boy
so full of righteous ambition
certain of what was...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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High home summer hill

Straining, sucking, sitting

Staring, stopped and stick-

A pit-prop tight and gripped.

The trees across the valley

Much higher than he can go now.

I pant to...

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I once loved

Unspoken words to that bleeding heart,
A heart of a young girl who once loved.
That smile everyone was talking about, 
It wasn't a smile,But...

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To lie in all my golden glory,
My former branch left bare;
I remember my crisp and fresh green unfolding
Into delighting you, serving you,
With my shade and...

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Valentine is a day of love
Whereby couples renew their vows
But do you really have to wait for this day
To really be ensured that you're loved

Let...

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~ Clock punched, bloody scrubs,


  "Leave your work AT work", they say ...


  But I wear it home ~...

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This life comes with crushing weight.
Pressure to complete a certain fate.
Makes it hard just to breathe.
Carrying self induced deadline date.
I'm not empty nor distracted.
Age has...

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Cancer may redefine your life
	or cause you to do so

	but it does not define you

It is not you, by definition
	in fact it is the anti-you

It...

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Long Day at work
He returns
as a red-eyed wolf

Quiet room
and shiny desks
His minds keep busy

Eyes staring
on wet pavements
No more Fire

Then I See You
crow's feet landing on...

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The Color Missing
Red, black, and blue are the colors of our work pens. Red is the color of the blood we spill on other people’s...

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Lost
Lost in thought.
Lost in prayer.
Lost in life.
I know not where I am going.
I know not why I care.
Who can know what tomorrow brings.
Who can foretell...

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