Work Metaphor Poems

1st wind, childhood
2nd wind, jobs, career
3rd wind, elder life.

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It's rare that most would call me a hot head
I am usually the coolest cucumber instead
I have no tells, so their heads don't swell
and I...

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A border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away...

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I've never feared a man, who went to work in boots,

Nor one that worked the fields, who grew vegetables and fruits,

 Instead be on guard,...

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Unseaworthy

I creak like an old ferry 
coming in to meet the wharf
mindful of less agile passengers

but like a wayward skiff
my thoughts soon override the pier
bounce...

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Weaving Work I

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I am a feather in the wind;  
neither lost nor aimless, simply drifting.

I am a constant flowing river...
I walk with feet of clay; a...

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They're cashing in on our misery 
By making us go in circles
While they keep promising to deliver
On nothing cause nothing they've said holds water 

They're...

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("The Longest Journey", 2020, original encaustic)

Beyond Words, A Rose By Any Other Name…

Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout it
because it, is all there is.
Like there is but one...

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Holding on to hope
There is no other way
Can’t throw in the towel
And just toss it all away

Progress piling up
Growing as we go
The path won't be...

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Splattering dried soil upon my face 
Lying on that bed for a space 
Space for stars, rainbows, and the moon I plunged my eyes; the...

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You cannot know the good from bad, what course did change for actions had.
A thousand gone from dawn till dusk, a hero birthed egregious loss.

To...

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Doing work white collar job but dirt underneath,
  Fragrance with scent on shirt but smell under me,
  Flourished outside but rotten inside,
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Just because you didn't finish that thought 
Doesn't mean we didn't know what you were thinking 

And you’d think the voice in my head had...

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