Sweatshop Poems - Poems about Sweatshop

The System Isn't Broken, The People Running It Are

...There’s no difference 
between a classroom 
and a 
Chinese 
sweatshop. 

No thinking, 
No talking, 
No creative 
expression 
whatsoever. 

Give us your
whole day and 
you will receive 
...

Though no political pundit, nevertheless

...Though no political pundit, nevertheless...

I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.

Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
show...

Flashback Forward

...Tired eyes within an expression of lies.
Modesty sold to both youth and old.
Peering out of an unseen future.
Days spent in a sweatshop to pay rent on a house occupied by a phantom with no name.
...

Cotton Fields

...The devil’s dry fields
dirt farm, not much yields
damn sun
one forlorn tree shields
Texas battlefields
the one
recline that appeals
low water reveals
not done

no reprieve day’s sun...

Vanishing Point

...The ironing on hold,
she donned a teddy for a span,
gazed at her reflection in the mirror
through puffy eyes
tucked beneath a coonskin cap,
hand-sewn in some god-forsaken sweatshop,
then grabbe...

The End Times

...*Image of Contrary To Popular Belief by Medium.

The End Times

A locomotive train chugs remote wails,
The tempest brews a calamitous stunt,
Falls of exiting steam, moist teary tail...

T I G H T R O P E

...As if there were a tightrope on which we walk
a perilous pathway strung down the middle of our lives
balanced by a blindfold
each footstep to be placed when and where we're told

Children with g...

The Boss

...When he walks in
  all talking stops
No tomfoolery
  in his sweatshop

Do it right the first time
  That's why you were hired
Repeat a mistake
  You'll likely be fired

Start precisely on t...

Elusive Fate of Africa

...Six decades after the slavers were gone
Came along the dragon
With fire to melt our mineral ore, trees to chop
And heat for a sweatshop
Politicians shake hands with eyes closed, as few hands get ...

World Leaders Respect

...The world needs leaders, that it can respect,
lying to people builds distrust,
granted people can and do make up false beliefs,
conspiracy theories, 

The Russian people turned against the Czar
...

Props

...We struggle through life, through the stress, through the strife, it cuts like a knife but onward we travel crawling through the dirt, through the gravel while watching our lives unravel.

As we go...

On Occurrence In New York At Four Forty-Five Pm On March 25th 1911

...An Occurrence in New York at 4.45 pm on March 25th, 1911

True faith, liberty, the flag,  our holy soil!
Is it the cause that grants the martyr’s crown?
Should martyrs owe this crown to tyrants o...

Everything Is Not As It Seems

...Back in '63,
I remember vividly,
only 6 years old,
and watching our
black and white tv,
showing Lee Harvey Oswald
being escorted down the hall,
handcuffed and under arrest,
when out of the bl...

In the Sweatshop

...Working for peanuts,
Peta was sewing,
knowing her garments
would grace Princess Grace

Working, still smiling,
the dollars weren't piling
up in her piggy bank
down at the bank

Working for ...

Sweatshop Sumei Dead

...She was only three years old
When she was sold, forced to   
Enter a world of slavery, 
Amongst other children laboring,
To glue on buttons or “flair,” to
Sew pockets on shirts she’ll never wear, or
...

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