Long Bricklayer Poems
Long Bricklayer Poems. Below are the most popular long Bricklayer by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bricklayer poems by poem length and keyword.
What Will They Do With GrandmaWhat will they do with Grandma?
What will they do with Grandma, now that she is old?
No longer able to fend for herself, by her home-help they've been told
She's always been there for her children but...
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Categories:
bricklayer, age, family, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
Childhood's DreamAt every turn in time, I wish to live the best dream
The best wish everyone could have
That caress the precious grace per luck
Which colors achievement
And can be counted on as reinforcement cum hard...
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Categories:
bricklayer, age, art, dream, future, growth, hilarious, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Olive Frazier 1854 - 1895Olive Frazier
1854 – 1895
To my many august friends,
Mere survivors under this hungry consuming California sky.
Before you can reach high to the stars, my friends,
Both feet must firmly be set upon the ground first.
This, in essence,...
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Categories:
bricklayer, death,
Form:
Epitaph
They SaidThey Said
Don’t talk when big people are talking
Leave their presence now, start walking
Be a good boy don’t ever backchat
Greet a big person, take off your hat
You got bushman blood, hair’s not straight
To be dark of...
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Categories:
bricklayer, appreciation,
Form:
ABC
The Moral of This StoryI once knew a bricklayer named Bruno
And a lunatic known as Joan,
A Buddhist some called Judas
And a policeman who was always stoned.
Now Bruno wasn’t brilliant
But he sure could build a wall –...
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Categories:
bricklayer, introspection, life, people, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Cemetery WitnessingIn the late 1970s I was a bricklayer, and for about half a year we worked in a new housing allotment along a state highway in Ohio. There were towns in the area, and...
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Categories:
bricklayer, bereavement, death, farewell, life, old, solitude,
Form:
Prose
Life Weary, So Hungry I Could Eat a Dry BoneLife Weary, So Hungry I Could Eat A Dry Bone
Trekking through fire breathing desert, yes all alone
Mouth full of sand, shattered heart so heavy too
Life weary, so hungry I could eat a dry bone
Looking...
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Categories:
bricklayer, destiny, farm, fate, growing up, history, philosophy,
Form:
Sonnet
Soul BetrayalI, betray my soul, when I utter, no,
When I feel, yes; and my ignorance show;
To constant communication, within,
Hummed by God, like the breeze blowing in...!
My heart was like crystal: clear! Transparent!
Sky: devoid of dust-layers; with...
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Categories:
bricklayer, betrayal, body, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Men You Definitely Wouldn'T Want To Date - Part 2I once dated a chef …
I was worried about getting a bun in the oven
But when I saw him mincing across the kitchen
I knew I wouldn’t be getting my fingers burned!
I once dated a fireman…
Oh...
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Categories:
bricklayer, boyfriend, humorous, jobs, love,
Form:
Free verse
The BricklayerHis wheelbarrow wobbled
Across the broken sidewalk
Toward the job site
Where the work was
Some girls in yellow taxis rode by and whistled at his tanned arms.
His brown boots got chalked
as he scuttled...
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Categories:
bricklayer, break up, heartbroken, i miss you, lost
Form:
Free verse
Don'T Tell Me They Are Job CreatorsDo not tell me they are job creators
Sitting and watching their money
Like pit bulls
Deaf to the screams of the innocent
Web designer lawyer and bricklayer alike
At this last hour of decaying madness
Of system that doesn't listen
Machinelike...
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Categories:
bricklayer, political,
Form:
Free verse
Ballerina Marries a BricklayerThird day on her honeymoon
Sharon asks Butch what it's like
for a man before he gets married.
A bricklayer by trade,
and a man of few words,
Butch doesn’t know what to say
but he knows Sharon...
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Categories:
bricklayer, love,
Form:
Blank verse
His Mother Was RightHe was told he was gifted at an age of ten,
Gifted in every subject that he had.
His mum said he would become a prodigy,
He would be an intellectual nomad.
Shifted to the next year...
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Categories:
bricklayer, childhood,
Form:
Quatrain
Rebuilding What Was Torn DownRebuilding what was torn down
might take endless effort,
and it can be definitely done
without recalling the hurt.
To visualize it again,
it's putting together the ideas
that started it in adolescence...
will it be the same dream as then?
Some...
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Categories:
bricklayer, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, nostalgia, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
Words Are the Tools of My TradeWords are the tools of my trade
a carpenter choses to use wood
with which great things he makes
my choice will always be words
Just like an artist, a picture I make
instead of using paint, just like
a bricklayer...
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Categories:
bricklayer, poetry, words, writing,
Form:
Light Verse