Short Labourer Poems

a parrot clipped,caged, cries
            a bonded labourer moans
            when will they get freedom...

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Dust compacted, formed into bricks
Lain to last as lodged in time
Exposed labours to live in and live on
As labourer becomes dust
Unknown and forgotten...

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Stone quarry
Stone quarryman
Stone worker
Quarry worker
Quarry labourer
Stone mason
Stone chisel
Cold chisel
Metal worker
Whitesmith
Silversmith 
Tinsmith
Goldsmith
Blacksmith
Wordsmith;
Black art
Word art...

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Today you Struggle,
Tomorrow no Trouble.
Today you Do,
Tomorrow you Get! !

Today you Pay,
Tomorrow get it anyway.
Today be a Labourer,
Tomorrow be a Gainer..

Today if you Sit,
Tomorrow get a Hit..
Today, if you Try,
Then never Cry! ! !...

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Winter brought 
Rain and snow
Frost and fog
Slippy pavements 
And icy water
A cold hand
For the labourer 
And windy squalls 
To shake trees
Lightning and torrents 
Falling from the sky 
And also a time of peaceful rest
In nature's closed eye. 

     W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 1989....

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Candle light
Incandescence overlain with grime

Starry night
Shared soundless echoes

Sunset
Filtered reality, fingerprint detail

Bricks
Lasting dust of labourer

Pencil marks
Temporarily lead on

Wired
Release from malleable cage 

Sink into dreams
Existence grabbed from beneath

Clouded view
Thinned eyelids obscure insight

Tapestry
Lose hours for immortality

Pass notes
Evidential transference of notion...

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