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Living Wage Poems - Poems about Living Wage

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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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, how i feel, humor,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, anger, discrimination, political, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, anxiety, blue, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, care, conflict, culture, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: living wage, discrimination, poetry, racism,
Form: Limerick

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