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Toilers Poems - Poems about Toilers

Premium Member Passed The Bell
...Nights of flying dream world, who might chase a raucous laugh, or seek indeed mirthful excitement, the sort that has embroidered twists, as is generally perceived by intention, but epic hurdle......

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Categories: toilers, art, city, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Beyond Doubt
...A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair, stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper, overt orange, deep vein red, pallid yellow, scaly amber, jumble upon bright clad jumble, earthbound mattress on a g......

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Categories: toilers, autumn, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped Earth
...Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents, iridescent earth sun trap poised to garner sympathy, dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble, toxic deluge drenches mudbank plot as toile......

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Categories: toilers, anxiety, art, august, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tenebrous Night
...Tenebrous night steals autumn days, Invading ink subtracts the breath of light, With tarnished mingling edge, With dusty dusk’s laments. Tenebrous night of immutable grave, Infiltrating melani......

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Categories: toilers, class, death, international, night,
Form: Didactic
Cantos of Time
...Moments are not the retinue of time. There is one which decides the turning point of mankind. I can’t hand over to sighs that time which stands and beckons me. To hell with the shades to rec......

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Categories: toilers, angst, anxiety, leadership,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Wedding Kermesse
...Wedding Kermesse Common folk with few wants (Toilers reaping earth’s bounty) Enjoy life’s pleasantries To escape harsh realities Of day-to-day existence Expressed in a ‘Kermesse’...

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Categories: toilers, celebration, culture, dance, wedding,
Form: Ekphrasis
The River of Benafim
...The river of Benafim A long time ago (everything is in the past) a river ran near the houses its water was calm and fresh it came from the upland. Parts of the river runs quite deep we could ......

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Categories: toilers, deep, devotion, earth day,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Warning
...Slaves of wages for generations long forgotten in history’s screenplay. Each hand for a moment has held the torch. The people are waiting in lines. All toilers have resisted. All skins have f......

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Categories: toilers, america, class, poverty, rights,
Form: Political Verse
Saboteur
...Gleeful roses turn to sullen churls, And virgin smiles of shyest brides Soonest morph into widowed furls; Sad victims of your ill-bladed tides. Swearing lovers of staunchest troth Must sample......

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Categories: toilers, age, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Pixie Ghosts
...Verd meadow yon shadowed sequoias, Patterns has lent the scope neath the petals, Pixies wake on the tips of true choices, Heightens an ochered sun amidst voices, Looms about a faint trac......

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Categories: toilers, allegory, crush, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Villanelle
No Sharing Here
...An horrific situation happened in a country town. The districts big employer has closed their factory down. Twenty men had lost their job; the town had lost its soul. Not one man was happy about g......

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Categories: toilers, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Crucifixion of Barna, Part 1 of 2
...(In the late 1300's, veteran painter Barna of Siena was killed when he fell from the scaffolding whilst working on "The Crucifixion", the final panel of his fresco cycle in the Church of the Co......

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Categories: toilers,
Form: Blank verse
Matchstick Bikes
...Matchstick Bikes To tinkers and toilers I salute, From mending boilers to weaving jute, Man and boy for generations, I will unemploy your occupations. To bre......

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Categories: toilers, society,
Form: Rhyme
A Modern Faery Tale
...Once upon a time There was a man Who lost his job And his home And his car And he slept under a tree. Simpleton that he was, He never gave thought To asking the oak's permission. But the......

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Categories: toilers, adventure, fairy, inspirational, magic,
Form: Free verse
The Swallows
...The Swallows Like dotted foreheads of women, our land was dotted with swallows; They had rap dances on the farmers’ ploughs and bulls’ yokes in the field With feathery steps to the toilers’ foot......

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Categories: toilers, anxiety, bird, destiny, missing,
Form: Sonnet

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