Factory Worker Poems

Workaday Life

...Young couple's modest apartment,
no children yet,
a crappy mid-size car,
lottery scratch off ticket duds,
grilled cheese and tater tots.
Punching the clock,
factory worker and diner waitress,
...

Lula, Loved and Hated

...

I cannot tell you why Lula is loved and hated without some history ...

           His name is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, or simply Lula.  He was born in
1945, the seventh...

The Refused Is the Confused

...Heart with Joy suffused,
Later Help refused!
So, No Hopes infused,
It’d remain confused…

A Factory Worker,
For twelve years Dock Worker;
One could not be great,
If one would just wait.
“Who...

Men With Chains

...Men with chains
Come on the lips of kisses
Vibrating warmth and passion
Kindness that lights the heart
With feelings alive, pouring out
Tender hope over the thoughts

Men with chains
Clinging...

Excerpts From the Compilation Prayer, 13, Connected and Gratitude

...Excerpts from the compilation, “Prayer” 13.
Connected! and Gratitude.

I wish that we can really, deeply understand
That we ARE Connected!
And Inextricably Dependant on each other,
And then, 
...

Prohibited Poetry

...Test icles
Female dog
Oral stimulation
Wood
Rectal insert
Bulb of the vestibule
Raccoon
Box
Ipipi
Del dool
Dike
Cigarette
Akkineni
Mouthification
Analingus
Fornication Under Consent of...

Shot In His Behind

...Wendell just getting off work,
And was headed home 
by way of his favorite place to chill,
a lively place called
Pharaoh’s bar & grill.
With the hope of winning,
his retirement one day,
Wendel...

Second Time a Charm

...second time a charm
   and a while between visits —
      i was her out-of-towner grand.

sweet Grandma, even
   the sound of her lovely voice —
      from Northwestern New York.

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See More Joy

...for I exist as a vapor
then I am no more
tranquility with whispers
inside the corridor
instant gratification to some
wonderful personifications
we exist as nomadic herdsmen
drifting away in th...

Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton

...Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton P...

Just Checking In Today

..." Just Checking In Today"
Modified by Franklin Price
from a posting on Facebook
My sincere gratitude to the original author, who is unknown to me
Modified 4/1/2016

A preacher passing through h...

Decisions of Love

...Germany post World War II,
torn, impoverished.
Ruled by Marshal Law,
imposed by the victorious.
Occupational forces walk
the rubble streets.
Civilians cower
in fear,
in hunger,
uncertainty.
...

Photograph of a Hand

...I saw a photograph of a hand
in a museum
thin and emaciated 
It does not matter whose hand was this
a blackman, a white, or a colored
A male or a female......

It was an active hand of a factory work...

Life On a Hitchhike

...Life on a hitchhike

A cool drool drip slid to the corner of a slit shut
mouth. Eyes that once FLASHED reared back and humbled
into occular armpits,  no explanation. Hands that once
felt warmth ...

My Hero - My Dad

...I grew up holding a dear man in high esteem,
And as strange to you as it may seem,
Though there was a plethora of heroes to be had,
My all time hero was and is my dear old Dad!

He led his family by ...

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