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Labor Poems - Poems about Labor

Tribute To Labors On Labor Day
To hands that toil from dawn till night, In sun's harsh blaze or fading light, You build the world we proudly see, With silent strength and dignity. You mend the roads, you sow the land, With weathered skin and calloused hands. Your sweat is ink on history's page, Your spirit—brave, no gilded cage. No marble hall, no silver throne, Can stand without the stone...

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Categories: labor, appreciation, beautiful, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Leatherback Turtle
I. The night was as thick as melted asphalt when her prehistoric form emerged like a monument in the sand and each egg that descended spiked the air with the scent of birth, sweet, pungent, and female. Drunk with labor, she could not sense the mass of people that surrounded her, the eggs that slid through her rubbery body, or perhaps the knowledge that, in minutes, she would abandon...

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Categories: labor, absence, animal, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse



Labor Day long weekend
My long weekend trips had changed and ruined, By your early morning text messages. On Saturday, 2025.03.08@03:08:00. You texted me to let me know, It was your birthday, you turned 21+ years old. You also wanted to let me know, The reasons why you stopped saying hello, And all forms of communications. I respected your birthday was a significant event, Happily to celebrate with...

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Categories: labor, appreciation, fate, goodbye, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Labor Of Love
Two rings for vow Meet in altar Once in lifetime. At last past years Had passed made fruit Labor of love. Patience lays egg If you believe Yield good result. True love awaits If your hope last End of rainbow....

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Categories: labor, character, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Than-Bauk
Scrape: To remove an unwanted covering or a top layer from something, usually with something sharp
Scrape away, at a life. You just weren’t given any real instructions – so, you scrape like a carpenter at grey washed walls, wanting to peel off old paint – old memories, in your head you scrap away the talk back – that little squirrel inside the trunk of your head it scrapes. You scrape and scream, you scrape and feel the muscle of...

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Categories: labor, humanity, mental health, work,
Form: Free verse



Labor Day Road Trip
Another test to prove - if its true that distance is shorter to mom's house than mine? And witness - how belted-in kids can still spin up reasons to fight and bite; or explore why - at least one kid gets sick so quickly at the start of the trip; and rehearse our scripts on what to say or not say to the...

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Categories: labor, family, nostalgia, vacation,
Form: Free verse
REST
My body's not a stone, unyielding and cold Nor is it wood, unfeeling, and old It's flesh and blood, with needs that must be met Rest and relaxation, to rejuvenate and reset Don't be a slave to labor, toiling ceaselessly For when you're gone, your efforts will be but a memory Those you've worked for, will call you a fool, in...

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Categories: labor, celebration, dance, drink, sweet,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Ode to unpaid labor
Ode to unpaid labor...

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Categories: labor, culture, jobs,
Form: Concrete
Man Of Labor
Man of labor Most honorable Title on Earth....

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Categories: labor, career, humanity, work,
Form: Than-Bauk
September Falls
September falls within the best of times. Elections nearing, campaigns underway; Predictions, weather-wise for cooler climes. Thus teachers, teens and toddlers break from play Ere education calls their minds to grind. Men have endorsed re-naming Labor Day; But that’s September’s summons of a kind Enlight’ning us of work that must go on Regardless of what holiday we find. Fall features color when...

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Categories: labor, 11th grade, autumn, color,
Form: Acrostic
On Labor Day
On Labor Day, some stores are closed And many catch a break By getting paid for staying home, No penalty at stake. I guess it’s kind of strange That this time off’s a welcome perk For a day that honors workers – That is irony at work. But there always are some laborers Who never get to stop, Which includes those gals in labor Who...

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Categories: labor, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Labor Day
Fallen star In my dark I needed someone to love me; who dies for it in the same way I had given up on love I had given up on trust I had given up on sorrow, pulling me downward and away You wouldn't allow me to dry into dust You wouldn't allow me to be, waste thereof You wouldn't let misery go...

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Categories: labor, appreciation, devotion, emotions, for
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Labor Day
rested and busy hold hands - satisfied by laborious shower...

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Categories: labor, metaphor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Thought for Labor Day
Is man but a workhorse to be slowly ground to death To slice his limbs to ribbons on a slaughterhouse machine To breathe in sewer muck and mire or hurl on tractor-trailers never-ending...

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Categories: labor, depression, hope, horse, men,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member labor day
no sounding alarm his workboots off laborer sleeps respite this morn...

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Categories: labor, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku

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