Short On Work Poems

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Premium Member Side Lined (Naga-Uta Form)

over qualified
redundant and out of work,
too old to fit in -
downtown,it is pouring down,
the umbrella's in the hall
Form: Lyric


Weakness

Work; worry;
Everyday!
Action ~ reaction!
Kindness? Never!
Needs not met.
Eventual eruption!
Somebody WILL
suffer!
Form: Acrostic

Tunnel

Tunnel

A mountain the man blasting through it. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form:  Monoku
Form: Monoku

Mary the Truckin' Queen

Mary, Mary, the truckin' queen
Runs from Raleigh to Abilene
Makin' sixty cents a mile,
Squashin' squirrels all the while.
Form: Rhyme

Mover

give a call
we move walls
so don't stall
pick up the phone
your not along
we a move
gover
ok do it today
call
MOVER


Idleness

What hardship
Is joblessness? 
Soul searching endlessly
Roving depth in height
Beasting and feasting
On treacherous quagmire

Get On Line

this is a new day
you have to pay
no to much
you can stay in touch
it not more than a dine
kept this in mine
GET ON LINE

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Beware the Addict

Darkness in my Veins
Impossible Aimless Energy
Soothing all my Pains
for a price
for just a fee
My Soul Addiction
Coffee.
© Arden Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Cockcrow's Chill

Oh you— 
gentle versifier, 
why 
still awake 
in the cockcrow’s chill? Is there a lust, blooming 
in the beak of your pen?

Humility

Humble yourself now
Or be humiliated
Later in this life

With other people
In your career, with money,
sex and possessions.
Form: Senryu

All Work and No Play

I’d think about
Work without Play -
And doubt my mind…

For Nancy’s If I didn't think what I think, here's what I'd think contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Than-Bauk

Studying the Room

I sit in the study, a typing
The students around me revising
I punch at the keys
For as long as I please
My mind and body aligning
Form: Limerick

Bus Drivers

some smile
at a child
getting on
some look stone
they are bold
there face it show
some ex plane diver
theyer our
BUS DRIVER

A Day At the Flea Market

Dealers arriving
Merchandise appearing.
Bargain hunters searching
Treasures departing.
Dealers exiting
with pockets a-jingling.
Form: Rhyme

Identity Crisis

I asked her who she was and
she told me what she did;
when she lost the job, the expense account,
she no longer knew who she was.

Public Serpents

often, those who piously claim to be

                  taxpayers' servile servants

                    are but public serpents!
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Skyscrapers

Architectural Giants, our desire to build Higher than before http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/life-2.php
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Promotion

In order to get ahead today, one doesn't need an education.
By just snooping around my bosses desk, I landed an unexpected promotion.
Form: Rhyme

Going Places

your on  you way
might be anyday
you got what it take
your real not fake
you mixs with all races
and faces
you are
GOING PLACES

Queen Unseen

ants live, die not weaned ..

                    from toil for colony queen ..

                              their mother unseen.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Beechwoods

the polished blade glides
precisely to and fro
dusting the mulch below,
the angled wedge shapes the fall-
timber...the echoed call.

I Need To Know

i need to know
why it is so
but first i know
i know it's no

i need to grow
and shine, and glow
and start to blow
my life in tow
Form: Rhyme

The Schema of Life

Select All Scenes from MyLife
Where Memories like ‘shining stars’
And In between MyHopes and Fears
Or not Forever in (‘my’, ‘dreams’)

Candle Ballet

A burning desire,
Wax sweat glistens her figure: 
A scented routine.

Passion on the wall,
Illuminated shadow:
Ballet of the flame.
Form: Choka

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