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Sweatshop Poems - Poems about Sweatshop

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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. ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, jobs,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, earth, environment, farm, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, evil, fantasy, good night,
Form: Rhyme
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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, society, world, , western,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, pride, work,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, africa, america, pain, peace,
Form: Free verse
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, perspective,
Form: I do not know?
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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, fire, new york, youth,
Form: Free verse
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......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, allusion, america, remember, ,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, business,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, death, world,
Form: Acrostic
Why Not To Have That Hamburger
...Why Not to Have That Hamburger By Elton Camp Of course I like the taste of hamburger just fine But in here, to explain why to avoid it, I’m tryin’ One burger can contain dioxin 300 times more......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, food,
Form: Rhyme
An Outrageous Case of Illegal Immigration
...An Outrageous Case of Illegal Immigration By Elton Camp We hear much about invasion from Mexico But the U.S. northern border is the way to go Aliens can, and do, cross with greatest ease For......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshop, funnypeople, people,
Form: Rhyme

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