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Living Wage Poems - Examples of all types of poems about living wage to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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MAESTRO
...MAESTRO He knew all along that it would be pressure Not just to conduct but bring out the best This brass band from a mining community Trying to keep it alive, almost their duty An almost for......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
living wage,
confidence, music, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
...Au revoir oh perilous freedom... Since pledging my troth to the missus July 25th, 1996 after the comma error punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium. Ever since the notions of life, liber......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
living wage,
age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
War Cries of Mad Man
...I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN A MAN WOULDNT CONSIDER LISTNING TO THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT MODERN POLITICIANS SUGGESTING AND THOSE MEN KNEW MEN BEFORE THEM THAT WOULD LISTEN TO EVEN LESS TODAYS WORDS WOULDN......
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Shawn Gorsick
Categories:
living wage,
america, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Everyone Is Out Striking For Better Pay
...Sorry your kids can't come into school today As all the teachers are out on strike wanting better pay So are the doctor's and nurses and paramedics as well If you are sadly unfortunately ......
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Christopher Flaherty
Categories:
living wage,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Forced Tipping
... Forced Tipping Miracle Man 5/16/2023 I have always been a tipper, amount based, service driven. But in adding 20% to my meal, it then becomes taken, not given. When you’ve taken ......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
living wage,
how i feel, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
Should We Be Proud
...How can we take pride in a country that is sliding into dissolution and chaos? We praise ourselves for ending slavery. yet racial prejudice is still much with us. We pay slave wages and refuse to......
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Barbara Peckham
Categories:
living wage,
anger, discrimination, political, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE They stare out at us unsmiling from tintypes of the first photographs, from the tea-colored pictures of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled in cold bare rooms in tenements, children cl......
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Barbara Peckham
Categories:
living wage,
anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
All In a Days Work
...It could have been so embarrassing But he didn’t really care It was such a simple thing Wearing ladies underwear He chose it all so carefully Every single piece just right Carefully colour mat......
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Terry Ireland
Categories:
living wage,
humor,
Form:
Rhyme
To a Superior Judge
...I could not do what you are mandated to do every day on society's justice bench, weighing retributive justice against restorative healing. I cannot look with any comfort at police and correc......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
living wage,
anxiety, blue, bullying, culture,
Form:
Political Verse
Ideals
...Ideals Ideals High ideals? We all had them In the forties, in college, those long, all-night heated arguments, sitting cross-legged on the floor, debating how to change the worl......
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Barbara Peckham
Categories:
living wage,
care, conflict, culture, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 3
...Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as it we......
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Michael Kalavik
Categories:
living wage,
allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dancing With the Blues
...We’re dancing with the blues, a twilight silent musical, But it’s a fine soiree; a low rent way to have it all. We’ll close our eyes and hum a tune, it’s one we’ll just make up, And dub step till ......
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Michael Kalavik
Categories:
living wage,
allegory, blue, dance,
Form:
Lyric
Born To Pay
...I only want a living wage to make a life more kind And make my way through life as best as all of us can find When every day we need a way to be as you can earn When all the time we pay for i......
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Trevor Mcleod
Categories:
living wage,
analogy, money,
Form:
Quatrain
A Cry From a Server
...A Cry From a Server We stand on our feet for 12 hours for you. We provide you with delicious sustenance. We support your industry and innovation at the cost of our physical health. We resc......
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Iva Cvjeticanin
Categories:
living wage,
abuse, america, appreciation, class,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry A-Zen
...We can see how a black and white page Work together creating a sage Though Black is The Word Before it is heard The blank white page earns the living wage......
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Rico Leffanta
Categories:
living wage,
discrimination, poetry, racism,
Form:
Limerick
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