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Laid Off Poems - Poems about Laid Off

Laid Off Poems - Examples of all types of poems about laid off to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for laid off.
Premium Member Good Times Imperiled
... Today’s workplaces incommodious Laid off, the exuberant and joyous Atmosphere’s sterile Good times imperiled Efficiency’s drumbeat will destroy us ......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, joy, loss, work,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member DEADLY GAME OF MRSA
...How the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising five children including my granddaug......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member DIARY OF DIONDRA POSH
...March 10, 2051 Monday So diary today Monday I woke late For work. I thought no problem I just Call in. I called Mister Idris Moorah. He said, Diondra I'll be brief. We're Downsizing, you're......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, africa, allusion,
Form: Prose
Man-Employment
...Man-employment On the way to the bank this morning four workers were shuffling pebbles into big buckets carrying the load down some steps coming up with empty buckets, filling them up again. ......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, absence, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sir Frowns a Lot
...Grumpy, griping all the time, Out of work without a dime. Seen around the town a lot. They call him Sir Frowns A Lot. Used to work for the city, Paid off, laid off, what a pity. Caused his wi......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, anger, grief, poverty,
Form: Rhyme



Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup
...Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup! While merrily bobbing along the boulevard of broken dreams, which in truth measured no more than a furlong think envisioning myself top banana an......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, abuse, age, america, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mood Indigo
...A shell explodes out of the barrel Of misfortune's gun with a deafening bang. Unexpectedly pink slipped as he was Slowly making his way up ......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, confusion, depression, feelings, jobs,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Consciousness
...At my tender age, my grandma will tell nice stories from scripture, Each story carried a message, be virtuous and do not be ignorant, I did not know, what sin was, She emphatically told, two si......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not a Cure For the Cancerous Rich
...or A Copper Penny Saved Is a Copper Penny Toward the Thirty-Trillion-Dollar United States Federal Debt "The rich bewitch." -- the copper pennies on the eyelids of the working-cl......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Instant Regret and a Dizzy Blank Stare
...a broken phone in the muddy dirt a neglected charger hanging on a badly worn clothesline turned down for another loan everything has been cut off or repossessed now all my stuff is baking in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, confusion, fear, how i
Form: Free verse
Mark a Book Book a Mark
...(Soliloquoy : An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.) Mark a book, book a mark. Not every household has the......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, art,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Bo Peep Or the Consequenes of Sleeping On the Job
...A shepherd girl named Bo Peep lost her sheep and her Jeep And didn't know where to find them. She fell asleep stoned, When she woke they were gone, Leaving hoof prints and tire tracks behind them......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, humor, nursery rhyme, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Hollering Out To Hollow Nothing
...hollering out to hollow nothing playing with dead leaves and wanting to leave smelling dull normalcy in the air and wishing for comparing contrasts the sudden rainfall is the most fun happening of......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Well Suited
...Having been unemployed for some time, I had a fresh job prospect, As sunlit rainbow beamed jaunty colors, the last time you checked. I really needed some good news, as my savings were almost gone......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, fantasy, happiness, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Room At the Top
...I awakened to butterscotch sunshine, pouring through my window; And I lay there for some moments, feeling the balmy wind blow. I would have basked in it longer, save for a job that I enjoyed; An......Read the rest...
Categories: laid off, fantasy, growth, happiness, home,
Form: Couplet

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