Short Janitors Poems

the janitors' broom,
it sweeps every room,
under each desk,
cleaning up the mess,
it never complains,
leaving a clean environment for our brains,
this broom is on a mission,
without recognition......

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Haiku 

Beautiful horses
But it is the modest mule 
That carries our load

Tidy office building
Busy and efficient place 
Kept clean by janitors
 
Our great cities
Without armies of cleaners  
Uninhabitable 

Galloping filly 
Bets are on black beauty 
The jenny won...

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jaunty jack-o-lantern joined
jingly jangly janitors’ July jamboree

jaundiced Jasper, Jack’s jackhammer
juggled and jostled the journey in jovial jollity.

Jovial Jukebox Julep juxtaposed Jasper and Jack’s
jonquils, joining the July Jubilee

Javelin, a jazzy jaybird, jangled Judy’s jaguar,
who jabbered jokingly and jauntily....

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People rush and hustle,
Mopping with gloved hands, tools of steel,
Wiping away blood and sweat from the floor,
Scrubbing the metal, blades, and hooks,
Sponges damp like the weight of sacrifice.
The work ends with a final cut,
Leaving the factory restored,
But the air thick with the scent of iron,
Machines hum like the march of the willing,
Tanks rise like the flag of duty,
Until the stench of labor fades....

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long after the mass,
the cavernous cathedral 
still hums and echoes 
with hymns coming down 
it seems from nooks 
and topmost rafters 
of its roofs;

veiled, veined women 
with long black rosaries
thumb through dark-brown, 
worn-out books in their
wrinkled hands, sighing,
murmuring, sobbing,
praying still.

behind them two janitors
noisily move about 
sweeping the aisles,
dusting the pews,
trying to say  let's go,
got work to do,
can't say so....

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