Short Manpower Poems

I feel like writing,
Writing for my people.
But the pen is heavy,
All filled with thickness,
An ink so black,
Blue sometimes!

Manpower it's a pre.
To a non writer it's a stone,
A rock not so easy to roll,
Not so easy to comprehend.

I feel like writing,
writing for my people!
But the desk is so high,
Higher than a tower could reach

I feel like...?...

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Unworthy one cent coins
Make up the consuming world
Unworthy coarse sand under your feet
Makes up the wonderful garden
Unworthy sweating manual workers
Make up the manpower
Unworthy short minutes
Make up the precious lifetime
Unworthy strenuous struggling
Makes up the patience to win
Everyone and everything will have their values 
And may deserve 
our respects or attentions...

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betrayed by the pen
a corporate, seal touches
workforce breaks of day


contacts eventide
an official, seal touches
manpower morning


before the fingers
a strong, prayerful hands touches
the pen that betrayed 

in God we should trust
a corporate, seal touches
in God we all trust


before the fingers
betrayed by the pen
God’s our only true friend

8/16/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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Sanctified, sealed, once written in blood

Shipped on the seas and fought in the mud

Swords and arrows and battering rams

Sparing the rich to sacrifice lambs

Multitudes sent to battle by hand

Manpower spent to confiscate land

Another war by the King's decree

Fought by the poor and always will be

Sadly though, many lives they barter

Proudly though, many souls they martyr

Death from wars are always repeated

Kings, in time, are always defeated 

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