Short Labours Poems

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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So
often
a poem
conceived by me
just
a 
moment
before sleep,
a head to pen
leap-
just
hours old,
I bring you,
my dear hearts to
view,
my
labours,
exclusive
and original and
new...

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tropic afternoons 
spent on her Antarctic glares 
my dent on cosmos







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Date: 25 / 12 / 2016

Form Haiku...

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Once there was a roman divine hero Hercules
his adventures:one cycle “twelve labours of Hercules”
Noble blood, physical strength, political power
no good enough but wisdom and great soul!
Bloody hell. Hercules by Cycle is for this era to rule!...

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Steward

labours well

as Christ’s servant*

…minister who’s faithful...

God-called! 

*2Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient.

July 28, 2018...

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Build yourself a home
Where you can be alone
And rest from your labours
Don't worry about neighbours

They have their own trials
There are things to reconcile
So sit down and think it through
In the end you will know what to do.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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These stone eyes devour
chiselled by the empty rain
buffed by the dust of histories remnants
Touching life with crackled fingertips
The portent unformed smile
that labours at the stone hearts
that drift forever by
Punished wings that mock
at feet unmoved
Pass me with your time
Unfelt this obelisk heart of mine...

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God has tasked poets,
With keeping Hope alive,
Love in all their labours,
Anger under  control,
Sadness from overflowing,
Romance from slipping off the page,
And most poets can take heart from their effort,
To instill in others what they write in indelible ink,
For all who cross their page,
And read between the lines....

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In the days of his trials
When the dreaded meals
Turned to be his delightsome delicacies.

In the days of his trials
When the umpteen labours
Brought in peanut pays.

In the days of his trials
When night rains
turned to be night ruins.

But in the days of his triumphs
The testimony of his treasures
Tickles many ears....

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Salutations to The One
Who has in wisdom chosen
To express life through our soul
Encased for now in boundaries of form
That after descending He beholds our ascent
Recognising God pervades all existence
And thus as this play is enacted
Labours of love are resolved
Within this lucid dream

08-December-2022...

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she was stone deaf and he proposed to her,
she heard it not and ignored the offer,
Said softly “will you marry me”?
“Thank you”she said “I don't drink tea!”
a tale of him, her and sound barrier!

Written 7 June 2022
10,10,8,8,10 syllable count
with rhyming 1,2,5 and 3,4
Tania Kitchin Sponsored
A Funny Limerick Poetry contest...

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that
silken gown

when pressed hard 
against the nostrils

one is assailed by 
the sweat of child labour

he is just eleven and not in school 
when other children are in school

the poor child labours away at the sweatshops 
under the watchful eyes of the masters who wield whips

think, the next time you wear that gown, of child labour....

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Feel fear forge frame
Beat bleak blunt blame


Watch wit work wild
Charm cheeky child


Wear whimsy will
Feel funny feel


Love labours light
Fling fuzzy flight


Sense sparkle sweet
Glimpse grandeur greet


Flame furious fest
Craze curious crest


Meet moments meek
Spice subtle seek




Leon Enriquez
31 August 2019
Singapore...

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She labours hard all day.
I work all afternoon.
We try to meet halfway
Between the sun and moon.

She feeds me love's buffet
A feast ending too soon.
I feel I'm misty spray
And She's this years monsoon

But as a selfish  man
I hope that I go first
For I'm not sure I can
Live with sorrow's cloudburst

I'm a spoon, She's the knife.
My typhoon, My whole life...

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Sandwiched between noisy neighbours 
We hear them putting their labours
In screaming matches 
Boisterous snatches
Seems like they're fighting with sabers 

I wish we had placed soundproof glass 
So that no sound, no noise can pass
All would be quiet 
Unlike the riot
Our neighbours create and trespass



03.20.2021



8.8.5.5.8 syllables...

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Eye catching patterns in colourful squares 
Were carefully stitched by gifted old hands

Commissioned for years to sew her fine quilts,
Her quilting designs were sought through the lands

Each blanket exquisite and full of old charm
All labours of love made at home on her farm

But time marches on and her eyes had grown tired 
And at ninety four years she is now long retired...

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When I shared a tiny piece of bread,
the eyes of an unknown hungry kid,
vented the spiritual chants, the secret
way to attain the heaven's steps.

When I prayed for others,
I felt like I was nearing the God;
Revering the labours equally,
aided me to fathom the rapport.

Nothing but a benign smile,
solaces the wilting souls;
Nothing but a compassionate word,
spreads the smile across the world....

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Love, 
sublime, 
between heart
and pain conceives 
eggs of tears; heart fondly nurtures, nurses 
labours and bursts right like a volcano
and cascading 
tears quench the 
blazing  
pyre.       

Revised

Picture 2
 
Syllable Count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 - 10, 4, 3, 2, 1 http://www.howmanysyllables.com

Nov. 2, 2020
Double Tetractys 5 Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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Time is a spartan warrior
bred in the minds of wise men
grown between phony pages
arroused by mankind`s weakness for likeness
Never knowing the unrest of the heart
faithful to his parents passes away
breaks the walls
burns  down the bridges
wipes the houses of so many souls
Mesmerized by an unsettled boundery
runs into flesh where the lively juices
conspire for a permanent emergence


Tellus, Grinta Publishing House 2012
(pen name: Calin Derzelea)...

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When she says on the bed , " 
I am your strength my love." 
She means to be with you 
Till when death will come. 

A woman who means
to be the strength
Of her husband
Is once in a blue moon
Because some women 
can speak that  to embolden 
some men as long as 
They are  not  sure 
Of what they verbalize. 

Don't put her down 
As she meant to be 
your strength. 
Love her 
As she loves you 
And you will enjoy 
The fruits of your labours. 

June 28/2023...

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Workers day
Labours in handicapped alms dish of world sufferings
World labour market always in unseen blessings

Sometimes I find happiness in the harem of have nothing
Know that I am uninvited in this radiant deaths of world
I am not pearl diver in the diary of hard stone prison
I lost myself in the consumerist human weakness

I seek the taste of freedom in the alms of reliefs
Today or tomorrow how many days will I wait for flight

01.05.2020 (Chattogram City)...

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Lurking circumspectly
Lest prey freely scampers
Labeled king of jungle
Labours for sweet triumph
Like soul-devourer*, who
Lies lifeless soon --- crushed by
Lord Saviour, God of love.

* 1 Peter 5:8   Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

March 14, 2022
3rd place, "In Search Of Prey" Pleiades Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May; judged on 3/30/2022....

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For what food I eat
For what clothes I wear
For what the eyes can see
Hoping my ears well they hear.

For what work to pursue
For what I get from my employee
For all labours renown
Hoping my inner substance I see.

For the dangers of every hour
For the security of the darkness night
For the courage sent from heaven
I absent myself from the sight.

For my blessings and hope are one
For in humble faith I wish upon
For common task seems so easy
All my troubles forgone....

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Time spurs movement here,
Space sets distance clear.


Hope feels impulse brave,
Faith knows poignant save.


Life wears weary swirls,
Love seeds happy world.


Tears come falling fast,
Smiles trace curling blast.


Needs frame labours well,
Wants stack dreamy tell.


Work bring heavy days,
Words make witty say.


Look upon this place,
See beauty spark trace.


Set the distance straight,
Walk the grandeur great.





Leon Enriquez
17 April 2015
Singapore...

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