In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes
...In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes,
Technology has wrapped its cold tentacles around the human soul, without us realizing,
A worldly instrument, ...
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Categories:
machinists, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My Fellow Machinists
...Many are the edgy tool forms shaping this piece
The lathe has turned for millennia with no cease
Milling takes place in immense illumination
Those sharp edges move; in darkness saturation
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Categories:
machinists, appreciation, beautiful, friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2022
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
machinists, america, appreciation, celebration, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2021
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
machinists, america, anniversary, celebration, history,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2019
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
machinists, america, appreciation, celebration, dream,
Form: Elegy
He Who Hath No Music Hath No Soul
...“He who hath no music hath no soul,"
It was a saying from one of our employees out of control.
My husband and I owned a business and did well,
But then one of our workers decided he would raise so...
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Categories:
machinists, business, funny, music, work,
Form: Narrative
Robert Louis Curl
...I quickly joined the Navy on June the 4th, 1943,
As soon as I graduated at 17, life was definitely to be;
I received boot training in the state of Maryland,
At Bainbridge, became a navigator no...
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Categories:
machinists, appreciation, beach, conflict, death,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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...
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Categories:
machinists, freedom
Form: I do not know?