Commercials
...A shape of the void is providing innumerable occupations for characters on the stage to emote through clearest and wet lightning
the distortion of audience perspective sus...
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Categories:
occupations, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Haibun
The Worst Occupations
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In a random survey, working class
Americans were asked:
What occupations they thought the worst.
These three were singled out: the first
embalmers, the second dentists
the third, the most ob...
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Categories:
occupations, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Animals, lyrics
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It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--?
A spark, a...
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Categories:
occupations, animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric
Said in the Same Breath as Freedom - May 8
...“O’!, work, work, work away,—ignore your thirst
and shovel steadily—keep nourrishing the coals
of locomotive life!(the cost is but your souls);
All other occupations?—to hell dispersed!
“Amen! ...
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Categories:
occupations, america, freedom, irony, jobs,
Form: Italian Sonnet
What's My Line
...My husband and I watch a show
Which was aired quite a long time ago –
In 1955;
(Were you even alive?)
Think of all that those folks didn’t know!
For a panel of four had to guess
Occupations,...
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Categories:
occupations, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick
Skill And Age
...There's a huge difference
In skill and age
One person has multiple jobs
Faster than young people
The curved body is caused
By the profession
Feeling so much concerned
As you age, the physical ...
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Categories:
occupations, career, health, life,
Form: Light Verse
the humble cook
...The humble cook
Once upon a time, a cook was a person who prepared food for hungry people, simple food like meat cakes in gravy and boiled potatoes
one needed not to be a genius, but the person k...
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Categories:
occupations, abuse, adventure, age, anti
Form: Blank verse
Crying Shame
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It has just come to me,
As I lay here thinking,
How sorry it seems to be
And what a crying shame
That I am left behind,
A fish washed up on shore,
A lonely cub separated
And abandoned by ...
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Categories:
occupations, abuse, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming...
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Categories:
occupations, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
In the Face of Love
...In the face of love,
If don't think there is a drink called "hate "
Which was made from some world companies
And given to some people by force.
I always feel good to love some people
Who...
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Categories:
occupations, encouraging, inspirational love, love,
Form: Free verse
Phantom
...I lived ... once …
I loved and laughed and ached from
my marrow …
I spoke my soul, and spun my mind to
my innervation and impulse -
swam up spirits to the source of their
p...
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Categories:
occupations, analogy, drug, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
What Is Your Job
...Painter paints with a brush and hooded mind.
Dentist extracts, injects with a pointed mind.
Mind of cacophony is what a singer has.
Orator hails, evading a faux pas.
Chef cooks with an aproned mi...
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Categories:
occupations, jobs,
Form: Didactic
In Defence of Donald Trump
...In defence of Donald Trump
How does one write about the indefensible? A person, so vulgar brass and
egocentric lusting for power; Yes, I think of Donald Trump, the impossible.
Why is it after b...
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Categories:
occupations, absence, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Scorpio
...Surmising they are right and never wrong.
Confidence in what they do makes them strong.
Opportunistic with whatever comes along.
Rectifying anything that may go wrong.
Perspicacious judgment in a...
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Categories:
occupations, people, perspective,
Form: Acrostic
In Plain Sight
...The hood is foregone.
Into the past, of fired crucifixes upon front lawns.
The day has begun, a new dawn.
Bare faced, in the sun's illumination.
Guised within the roles that make a nation.
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Categories:
occupations, america, racism,
Form: Free verse
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