Long Labourers Poems
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A Tattered Call of Life Treasure
"Hello, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can hear you. Speak forth to my ears."
"Now drop your ears to my mouth and hear, brother"
"Ok, here they are"
" I have been betrayed at the backyard and only...
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Categories:
labourers, africa, art,
Form:
Ballad
Freedom Day In South Africa
1.
On the 27th day of April in
Nineteen Ninety-Four,
Freedom was won, at long last.
The battles were many, the foe
brutal,
Apartheid tore our southern tip
of the continent of Africa apart,
it’s notions of racial-superiority,
its religious fundamentalism,
its...
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Categories:
labourers, freedom
Form:
I do not know?
Tower of London
Conquering Normans in siege they lay
waste to all England
to pillage and slay.
William the Conqueror rode overland
with nobles and ladies
of high ranking band.
Surveying all territories with equal measure
His decision unanimous,
and at his leisure
Decided on Londinium, the...
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Categories:
labourers, england,
Form:
Rhyme
Home, Sweet Home
They walked...and they walked!
prolonged stretches of a disastrous journey -
...
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Categories:
labourers, poverty, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxviii
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXVIII
for Suzanne DELANEY, in appreciation
(Prelude: CAN THE WRONG MAN BE RIGHT ? ABSOLUTELY !
If only he...
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Categories:
labourers, america, anti bullying, betrayal, international, patriotic, political,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Bass Strait Sealing Rush
The Bass Strait sealing rush began in eighteen-o-three,
where at least a dozen vessels were wrestling with the sea,
for the China trade was booming, for the want of skins and oils.
This was the first real export,...
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Categories:
labourers, history,
Form:
Lyric
A Palestinian's Engineering Dream
Once I was thinking of building a shopping plaza, just along the Gaza strip
But those Israeli's being what they are I thought my sales could take a dip
So, I thought I'd build a set of...
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Categories:
labourers, humor, uplifting,
Form:
Couplet
Lord God, You Are My Harvest Blesser
September 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 10-11
Key Verse – Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord...
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Categories:
labourers, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Little Santa Helpers
Little Santa Helpers
Santa has outsourced his services to child labourers from Bangladesh they
...
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Categories:
labourers, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
A Walk To St Mary's Church
A restless night, another hum-drum day,
Resolve to take a pleasurable walk;
I make my way towards St Mary’s church.
Across the street, a sixteenth century home –
Maltravers Manor, testament to time.
I’m heading for the ancient Hollow Way
Where...
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Categories:
labourers, history, journey, travel,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Urge
The urge
For we been equipped fellow citizens of
Motherland, Africa she sang of, Poetic is
It justice? just ice frosting dreams, hopes
Parliament a breeding citadel of perverse
Codes that terms us labourers in our...
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Categories:
labourers, anger,
Form:
Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO GIRDS US BY HIS LOVE
August 7 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 45-49
Key Verse – Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee,...
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Categories:
labourers, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Labor Day Observations
Tell me again
This wealth you gasp and clamour for
This strategy you wield
From the invincible substratum
Where the hunt pursues the frenzied heart
And the congestive traffic of arteriosclerosis
For what do you deal
The long evenings swinging on...
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Categories:
labourers, on work and working, me, labor day,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland
A country in Africa's kaleidoscope of culture,
Unique and blessed, with natural and human riches to nurture.
Roles blur, names defy convention's might,
Husbands are "Baby," sons are "Daddy," in this whimsical sight.
Saturdays are sacred for weddings' joyful...
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Categories:
labourers, abortion, africa, allegory, emotions, environment, society, spiritual,
Form:
Ballad
Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Le Baiser De Judas By T Wignesan
Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le Baiser de Judas by T. Wignesan
In our century where one sells father and mother
Husband his wife and wife her husband
And who doesn’t with ease dispose the only...
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Categories:
labourers, jesus, judgement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Monkey Business
Monkey business
“I say how about
breakfast at The New Farmer’s”
Our day of picking and consuming done
no hunger induced nightmares, we rest dusk to dawn
check on the young ones. Are we all here?
tomorrow we return for another...
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Categories:
labourers, africa, animal, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR CALLING US UNTO HIS FELLOWSHIP
November 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 1-4
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
PRAISE BE TO...
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Categories:
labourers, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Alliteration
Touching Lives
Let’s express loving touch power
delighting every family member
marked by trust we can offer
securing home with peace-cover
against infidelity wrecker.
Let’s show respect-touch in our truth-declaration
as we strive to build lives with dedication
teaching along virtuous instruction
nurturing...
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Categories:
labourers, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Muck Spreading
This was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor and spreader
Just an old ‘oss and...
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Categories:
labourers, farm, father, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Childhood
Childhood.
I read, in a newspaper, with following black white & photo
of children used as slave labourers many years ago, I was
one of them, but I didn’t share the misery described.
I was...
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Categories:
labourers,
Form:
Blank verse
I Stand Here As a Teacher Called By God
I stand here, grateful to God for calling me to be a teacher
enabled to be a life-builder by His grace and love
blessed to help shape grand future with His might
privileged to lead toward enlightenment by...
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Categories:
labourers, appreciation, faith, god, inspirational, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
Purple Turtle
My mobile is a purple turtle. Made in Red China by brain dead slave labourers. It has some wonderful features. These include:
Free TV. Pull up the delicate aerial and away you go. Ten channels...
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Categories:
labourers, computer, satire, technology, voice,
Form:
Verse
At the Polls
I didn’t see Alhaji Sule, the big contractor
Though he is a sponsor with a huge stake in government.
I didn’t see Chief Ade the financial banker
Though he is well-versed on political palavers.
I didn’t see Mazi Eze...
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Categories:
labourers, africa, betrayal, humanity, irony, patriotic, political, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
The People We Don'T Want To Know
The People we don’t want to know.
From pay check to pay check many working class people have two jobs,
then it all dries up and there is no work and manual labourers are
called...
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Categories:
labourers, social, children, woman, work, people, children, jobs,
Form:
Blank verse
Oh Lord Please Answer My Questions
Oh lord! Please answer to my questions
Why is there sorrow everywhere?
Why men gain superiority
While women shiver sheathless in the utter winter?
They say children are God’s angels
Then why do the little angels sleep hungry and...
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Categories:
labourers, children, men, military, philosophy, slavery, society, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse