Oracles
...A secret is granted
any curb captain
listening.
To speak rarely and
with roots.
Blake wears a hardhat,
drives a forklift for
Metal Products.
Whitman collects
unemployment in the mail.
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Categories:
hardhat, jobs, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Personification
Brouhaha Over Confederate Statues
...Ambiguity within mine
doodling Yankee mind that
arises, asper current
hoopla harrumphing
American Civil War statues,
which verbal/written spat
particularly regarding southern generals
(many ...
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Categories:
hardhat, age, anger, conflict, history,
Form: Free verse
Your Child Is Not Alone Here
...My child has ADHD, cry, cry, cry. Whine. Whine Whine.
I am trying to pay attention, but this parent’s child has every ailment.
She wants a 504, and IEP, and any extra intervention, as there is alwa...
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Categories:
hardhat, life, self, work,
Form: Free verse
Tunnel Phobia
...You wouldn’t go with me into the old mine –
even a guided tour with hardhat, miners’ carbide
lamp to glitter rich metals revealed by the pick’s
rough stroke. Remember the mystery-mine
in the m...
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Categories:
hardhat, adventure, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Life Aquatic
...I donned my best Sunday working coveralls
Plopped the hardhat on my waiting head.
Just another twelve hours of service rendered
To an employer who cares not if im live or dead
Ive seen days and...
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Categories:
hardhat, boat, life,
Form: Rhyme
Keep It Turnin' To the Right
...Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him how to fight
Herding mad...
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Categories:
hardhat, day, earth, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Fatal
...Brand new overalls
Oil resistant steel toed boots
Hardhat forgotten
By Robb A. Kopp...
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Categories:
hardhat, work
Form: Senryu
Get To Work
...Men at work, bumper to bumper
tensile traffic, thick black bitumen.
Everything seems to last longer
then that grey granulated concrete
that extends from Bodega, Cali-
fornia to Savannah, Geor...
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Categories:
hardhat, angst, funny, life, parody,
Form: Quatrain