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Underemployed Poems - Poems about Underemployed

Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken

...While reading Charles Bukowski poetry? 
On the metro ride home? 
Listening to Buddha bar music? 
On my oh too hip iPod? 
 
I begin to see myself as I was? 
Over 30 years ago when I was merely a...

Categories: underemployed, absence, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse

Ironic Revolutions

...Interesting
is it not?

Not so Grand Children of immigrants from Europe,
seeking religious freedom
and economic advantage
and almost certainly of self-examined HAVE-NOT status,

Because, if n...

Categories: underemployed, culture, health, heaven, history,
Form: Political Verse

Un-

...underemployed now
so simultaneously
also unemployed 

somewhat but not yet
also still not retired 
like the sparrow,  God

shall provide my needs
So simultaneously
encouraging me...

Categories: underemployed, blessing, caregiving, devotion, god,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

What Am I To Be Sad About

...God bless those who are the readers of these words
Well God bless the people that read these verses or In this passage our truth be told from my experience
 these are the facts and the truths that ...

Categories: underemployed, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Just Practicing

...My shoes are the strong silent type in that
they rarely throw fits about the weather
as flip-flops do nor demand tit-for-tat
consideration when worn together
with socks.  It should come as little...

Categories: underemployed, writing,
Form: Sonnet

Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen

...Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen
 
While reading Charles Bukowski poetry
On the metro ride home
Listening to Buddha bar music
On my oh too hip IPod
 
I begin to see myself as I was
Over 30 ye...

Categories: underemployed, anger, anxiety, career, change,
Form: Free verse

Adnate To the Funicle

...Accepting aloneness, incomplete solitude, imperfect rest. The garden
wasted, pumpkin patch planted late, potatoes untasted left in ground.

      A thousand email addresses, each unique represents...

Categories: underemployed, death, depression, dream, garden,
Form: Verse

Untitled

...Daddy's underemployed cain't pay all the BILLS
When it gets so hard U see y people STEAL
Trust Me Bruh, I know how ya FEEL
Exhausted from runnin, trouble nippin at ya HEELZ

Brotha slow down, ain't u...

Categories: underemployed, black african american, brother,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Jurisprudence

...Across the cracked concrete slabs,
past a fallen dogwoods left lying like so much litter;
at the red brick base of the courthouse, the jurors strode.

Through the doors too heavy for a mere woman...

Categories: underemployed, introspection, politicallonging,
Form: Free verse

The Process Or Kafka's Dream Part 3 (Revised)

...Could anyone think this uneducated?
and undereducated mass of unemployed
or underemployed, aged humanity,
should, could or would,
be able to rightly determine anyone’s fate?

What farce, this d...

Categories: underemployed, allegory, education, history, political
Form: Narrative