Short Toils Poems

Blossoms:
Multiple pink
Flowers signal spring.
Snow spoils floral toils.
Frozen...

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He’s paid with a coin that boils
for the seeds in his soils
… the thorns of his toils....

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Whoever for the good of humanity works for our Lord toils!







© Demetrios  Trifiatis
      29 August 2022...

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Bluebird nesting box,
built with love. Toils to survive
cold spring nights, unforgiving.

Toiling, foraging
Worms, insects make a nice meal
Insatiable mouths...

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When our time on earth is finally through
as Judgment Day comes for me and you,
all of life's toils shall be rewarded finally 
in a faraway home that lasts eternally....

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sore the heart so aches 
tears flow down our faces fall
 lost filled with no joy


1/25/2022
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Tiredless toils a farmer wields
to overcrowd his fallow fields.
His seeds did snug the ground,
and rodents ran arround;
in harvest came a yellow yield.

Category B: Serious....

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Flaws and scores
Less and more
Foes and pals
Toils and malls
Walls and doors 
Ceilings and floors
Joyrides and loads
Woods and roads
There’s never a pause
That is how life goes...

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The feathery dusky violets,
Of a purplish vaulted sky royal,
Tickles the genteel soles of twilights,
It wakes to a bluing chambered hall,
Whilst ups a blanched dress as white stars sprawl...

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Labour* sweat drops
     Pursuing life dreams
          Does God approve our toils?

*Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it...

March 29, 2019...

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Sleep eludes the night
Eyes long closed but mind still toils
Head spinning with anxious thoughts

Sadness creeping still
A constant nag through and through
Tears let loose the void inside


9 May 2019...

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Air stands still
Urban anonymity heightened
Toils of the day weigh heavy
Obfuscation of scene with light and shade
Mechanical servery de-personalises 
Attempts to leave stalled by self only 
Thoughts drift but don't settle...

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Behold we toiled
Soiling our skins
expending our strength
Breaking our bones
Sweating like covers of hot pots
Toiling, soiling, expending,breaking and sweating
Yet all was vanity and yet would be
Where God toils not with us...

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Nature does a landscape well,
And in vivid hues, the sea—
Capturing each wave and swell,
Or as perfectly, a tree!

Even as she smiling toils,
Till her artistry prevails—
Then tucks away her brush and oils,
And her Masterpiece, unveils!...

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his sinewy hands
                                       looked over the vast expanse 
                                          sweat drops and meanders












            haiku toils voyage/ Copyright (C) rajat kanti chakrabarty 11/26/2014...

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 Busy Bee

You may wonder what I am doing
Sitting here knitting away
The toils of a busy bee
Are never finished
In my quest to impress my girl
The length of time it took me
To make this special gift for her
For sure I just got my girl

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His hands are so rough
As they erect buildings so others may live

His hands are so rough
As they dig the wholes, for those who then pass

His hands are so rough
As he toils in the fields so all can eat heartily

His hands are so rough
Yet, his heart is so loving and gentle...

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Toils and brawls hit hard herebelow 
Till poetry and its bliss are forgotten;
Till the joys of rhyme totter battered 
By thrusts of a world foul and rotten. 

But when the last of blows 
The versifier's nose all wet
Has left in crimson sutures, 
This quill shall scribble yet....

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I well know that the price is great
And to pay it I bid not wait,
I'll give it whole without a murmur;
I'll Shell it out without demur.

Great enterprises know their master
And his mind knows no disaster,
For I know all toils of clammy sweat
And poor their blood without a fret!...

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Constantly she toils 
in the darkness of the heaving sea
gathering treasures into her aprons deep;
twice a day she knocks, panting,
at the shoreline’s wide stretching door,
and scatters her abundant gifts
for vagabonds like me to reap.

Copyright, October 24, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Living with Hope

Gracious companion - colleague and guest;
 Sent in a new light - in darkness implored;
Troubles and toils given their rest;
 Sunlight and sight tint optimism restored.

Contest: Rithimus Divisa 3
Sponsor: Gregory Barden
Date: 4-21-20
Rhyme poem from the poem "Hope"...

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we all dig, 

in the same soil,

sail and swim,

the same seas,

sweat the same,

from our toils,

crimson, 

the only color,

we all bleed,

die a death,

when we no longer,

breathe,

heaven or hell, 

is the only thing,

that truly stands,

between,

you and me....

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I fear our votes must be scraps or spoils
No rich man knoweth our toils
Upon us he performs a curse
For he is governed by his purse
We seem to draw no wit
From our previous failing
When into the snake pit
We go a-trailing
Honey words, sweet verse
Driven to hell in the politician's hearse...

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Far from the curious and the bored
   from prying eyes and microphones
The haunt of laboratory and clipboard
   stiff backbone, late nights alone

A drive from deep inside, a primal scream
   pushing and tugging the scientist's dream
Fatigue's chains broken, he toils on 
   Discovery's Joy, a new day's dawned...

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Oh how she walks through the mist,
pistol clutched in her fist,
a dark angel she waits,
Her blood lust she sates,
the queen of the dead,
In a dress of ebony,
living in a state of harmony,
The Raven awaits,
for death she anticipates,
to fly free she needs,
but bound to the mortal coil,
she endlessly toils,
To find peace....

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