Long Workmates Poems

Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.

Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from out of stone.
From animals to...

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I swing into action
Armed with wine 
The spirit willing, really for anything
Watch the Drama

Fire in my eye, dry throat, cracking lip
I stammer a little, with Socratic confidence 
I am stinking of words, ammunition from hell
Most...

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The most devastating statement ever made. 

So I guess the reaction after hearing this proclamation is totally humiliation 
I mean it's pandemic not really mystic 

After a long struggle of working out perfection to be...

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The most devastating statement ever made. 

So I guess the reaction after hearing this proclamation is totally humiliation 
I mean it's pandemic not really mystic 

After a long struggle of working out perfection to be...

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A 16 year old apprentice 
Fresh to working underground
Miners telling tragic stories
Of bodies never found .
Greenbach was a huge man 
Working only in his boots and belt 
For every scar on his naked body 
He...

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Just a few lines I hereby write to let you know
that I, in my entirety am still alive,
care I give, when with pen perceiving you so slow
the words upon these lines, just in time will...

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It’s really morbid, depressing, and sad,
at the gunpowder factory in town,
and the clean up is almost complete
since the factory was razed to the ground,
and here in the lounge of the tavern,
the inquiry’s about to begin,
‘cause...

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Who am I? 
I’m a mother, daughter, wife, and friend,
I’m a workmate, although sometimes have to pretend
To be happy,  smile, have fun
At times I just want to hide, maybe run
From people, work, situations,
I don’t...

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Sing a hymn for Georgie Radford
Who used to build ships on the Clyde
Watch them launch down the slipway 
With a worker’s quiet pride.
His last job was the giant carrier,
The one they put in mothballs,
Then his...

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I may be gormless
And it may be true
But just how many were there In the band?
I forgot
So I'm asking you?

Their beautiful music is a gift to me
And a part of my life growing up
And made...

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Written for Jan Allison, who then decided I should share it for poop verse afficionados.
True story, by the way.....

There are some jobs where heeding worker's safety is required
and during operations must be suitably attired
environmental hazards...

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GET OFF THE SHEETS
Dancing in the wild
Tossing in the deserts
Freaking in the woods
Cheering with the birds
A thunder in the midst
Shaking I open my eyes
It’s been a long night
I have to get off the sheets

Warm bath...

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as I was nearly sixty, my life would change once more
I was made redundant from my job, this had happened once before
the chance of finding new work, was down to zero, nada, nil
the jobs I...

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Written by: Rodgers Ja Brown

Why you gassing dawg
Why you coming to my table without asking dawg
I know you hate me with a passion I ain't mad at y'all
Jealous and envy shall follow you
You stuck on...

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This moment I've been awaiting for a number of years
To see ones heroes live see them crunching their gears
I'm on my way to Glasgow with workmates and friends
To finally see live their fantastic tracks they...

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UNCLE    JOHN

Uncle is hardly an adequate description 
For a man who in practically every way 
Acted as my father when I was small.
I have even started to look like him as I...

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Is it any wonder that nobody likes vacuuming the floor,
Mention the word vacuum and there is a rush for the door.

Reading a newspaper or a woman's magazine is a dangerous occupation,
If the vacuuming has not...

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He rode his horse side saddle
Across the rolling plains
Scarlet polished finger nails
Gripping diamantéd reins
A little cocktail hat 
Resting on his head
Dingly dangly earrings
Sparkling ruby red.

This dandy of the cowboys
Dressed to impress one and all
Showing off...

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We rarely get to see our friends
When they are off at work.
We hear about their colleagues
Or their boss who is a jerk.

But picturing their office
Or wherever they’re employed
Isn’t something we spend time on –
(Not unless...

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