Lost Jobs Poems

Check all the seats in the front of the bus.
Check every seat, and don't make a fuss.
Check the back seats and the front ones.
Check all...

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Meeting after all this time
Is such a wonderful surprise.
Meeting after so many years
Chased tears into my eyes.
Although you have cut your hair
And lost a pound...

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There was a server at the local cafe you see
Who got in trouble when refilling cups of coffee
Many said just a shot
Half a cup was...

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AMSTERDAM CATCH

I stand here and watch as the men unload
Herring, fresh from the North Sea morning catch
Here on this cobbled path I can now see
That...

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Character References

By Mark D. Stucky
If I applied for new employment,
should I write down for my references
my malicious manager who mistreats workers,
my onetime teammate serving prison...

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I could be a rainbow,
I could be a tree,
I could be a model come and look at me.

I could be a star burning bright,
I could...

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I find people as a whole are very judgmental,                ...

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BLESSED LABOR

Labor galls the mind of one,
Aches the bones,
Frowns the brow.
It need not be
A yoke of gloom,
Though just rewards
Seem lost to sight.
For if the attitude
Is...

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"On the right is the poor, on the left the rich, in between a road to nowhere"

When they said that you haven't truly lived life
It's...

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The Price

The price of peanuts 
has gone through the roof. 
The elephants are not happy. 
They will need to curb
their needs, 
their appetite... 
their normal...

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12,hours a day because the job is confusing 
all of that overtime and you’re still not improving 
it’s clear this job is one you shouldn’t...

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Alphabet learned
Before school
Counting too
Doing homework
Everyday
Frustrations
Guided
Her
Imagination
Jump rope
Kicked and
Laughed
Mostly
Night dreams
On to
Prom
Queen crowned
Rest some
Summer is here
Tomorrow
U
Visit jobs
Working now
X-raying bones
Ya-hoo I made it
Zoom through life.

 

Date Written:5/20/022...

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The customers ~ are always right so don't argue with them.
 

 

Date Written: 5/8/2022...

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There have been those who said,                   ...

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Since the year fourteen five,
In a little Swiss town,*
There’s a job that will earn
All who do it renown.

From the top of the church
(A cathedral, no...

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