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Laborers Poems - Poems about Laborers


Premium Member sun struck laborers
sun struck laborers....come home to nightfall bread repose in his kingdom...

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Categories: laborers, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Prayer For Laborers
Beloved Jesus, You love the laborers who bend their backs in the fields of farms neath the brimming sun, and those who build, those along the highways, those who serve, those who toil at sea. Our prayer for the laborers, to rest their bodies and souls in the comfort of Your steadfast redeeming presence, with our deep gratitude and love, Amen. ~...

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Categories: laborers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Let The Laborers Rest
Let the laborers rest, like poetry, the rhyme is in their job, as they hammer the nails, and man the railroads, maids clean someone else's toilets, others fell giant trees, as the waitresses twirl like a ballerina balancing plates amid the din of a crowded diner, migrant farmworkers bend in the savage sun's glare to pick the produce. Let the laborers rest, their aching bodies in sleep's...

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Categories: laborers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Laborer's Ode Iii - Angel
John Is 65 and a tall man Dressed in a white suit and tie With nice tennis shoes fuzzy socks And some hair plopped on top. Mary is 24 with blond hair and a smile so fun Her sweetness tosses like sugar Across the party of every room She enters. Her contagious smile has been erased Behind her virus mask Yet still gloriously escapes Through her crinkled...

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Categories: laborers, angel, integrity, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Laborer's Ode Ii - Bottled-Up Future
In his mid-30s but still a boy Given $14.50 an hour and 12 hour shifts Six days a week His driver’s license confiscated For five slung beers over a night long ago Cost him $10,000 Contributed to the system Of judges bailiffs lawyers and Presidents All residents Of the lakes and new mansions up north on weekends Five years it will take him To pay them...

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Categories: laborers, character, judgement, money, political,
Form: Free verse



Laborer's Ode I - Asphalt Pavers
Boy gets up at six Needs no alarm of complaint To shake The brief night of sleep From his hay-cropped hair Brushes his teeth Smokes a two dollar holler of cigarette for breakfast A pack a day is like tax day for him Paid by ten in the morning Then the day is free and clear Holds down his car as it bucks to life Lurches...

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Categories: laborers, career, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity
Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity! Hail to the unsung laborers who labor every day for a year, and at least up to eighteen more years! Hail to the unsung laborers who labor as they carry a child inside of their womb for a whole year! Hail the unsung laborers who have to deal with weird food cravings, crazy...

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Categories: laborers, appreciation, birth, celebration, child,
Form: Lyric
The Laborers
The construction site – The laborers toil and moil Even in the rain!...

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Categories: laborers, life, people, social, urban,
Form: Haiku

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