Porters Poems - Poems about Porters

My Spinal Decompression Surgery

...
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my spinal decompression surgery 
And hopefully it wou...

London To Work

...Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,
That's how the song goes.

I am proud of this city,
And it has been sung about in many a ditty.

Each day I get on bus 341,
And my journey through history ha...

Lord God, You Are My Ministry Enabler

...April 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 26-29

Key Verse –1Chronicles 26: 12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards on...

In Gratitude

...Shed a tear for those deceased 
In COVID’s agony and pain,
Shed one for their bereaved 
Never to see loved ones again,
Then spare a thought for those
Who daily risked their lives
Doctors, nurse...

My Night Journey

... Let me tell you a story of my night journey;

After a hazardous trip from a far off state
With drooping spirits and waning energy
I alighted at the station to catch the night train
...

G L Trestrail and Co Ltd

...
A rising sun in the east does appear
  from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to loose me from sleep’s tranquil hold
  and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was long ago
 ...

Who Invented the Coolie

...I
retired from education, sharing with (not scaring)
OUR YOUTH
oblivious of persistent prejudice, labor migrant past piercing 
the present
until i left America for South Africa, returning to Nat...

Travel

...You can take an agency tour
Or a cruise to somewhere exotic.
You can cram onto buses and trains
Or sway on a camel hypnotic.
You can stand on your toes in a group
And try to see o’er the crowd,
...

A Porters Approach To Coronavirus

...Since that shutdown thing
Things have been quite quiet here at work

Im a porter in a hospital
Moving people for transport and some other things now

My hospital has stayed the same,
But every...

Kaleidoscope Eyes

...~

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
sailing along with the moon in your eyes
Following dreams found to make your heart quiver
with tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebod...

A Bit of Mid Week Humour

...FRED

Fred the farmer he bought a new tractor
The milk maid he wanted to attract her
He said you wanna ride 
So she jumped in beside 
Said tis slow can't it go any faster .

SAUL

Memory of Gibble Gabble Woman

...There was a gibble gabble woman
In our neighborhood when I was a child.
She sung gossip the way 
Porters sling suitcases, trying to break people

Her tongue was fast, and mean, and she had no sh...

Livingstone

...When Livingstone got back to quarters
It was time to pay off his porters
His account was in London, no branch was nearer
So each man got a check made out to bearer...

The Princess and the Bea

...A Princess sat on her throne in despair whilst her father bellowed “is there a handsome prince out there?” 

“We have waited so long, as a matter of fact, I don’t care how he looks but like a princ...

On the Fifth Floor, and On the Narrow Staircases

...On the fifth floor, and on the narrow staircases,
Porters raised the piano with angry red faces.
"My friends - you seems to like a light music?" -
Somebody asked them. The porters bruised him!...

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