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Wage Poems - Poems about Wage

Wage
In the vast expanse of forgotten time, the now balances on the strings of eternity, cryochron-ology of the doors held ajar by the pasts frozen wings, now in a great flapping, like an Angel unknown and unveiled for...

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Categories: wage, art,
Form: Rhyme
She slept, slept her daily wage
For children’s maw a woman slept, When not, wage and daily bun slept. In hope that at late last he’d come, Windows, leaving doors open, slept. The night, shadowy more than shy, On spreading her dark omen, slept. ‘I need none whoso in all world’, My pride, in death all undone, slept. Dog-tired, enduring my burden, Me all awake, my divan slept. ________________________________ Ghazal |05.12....

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Categories: wage, irony, sleep, woman,
Form: Ghazal



Workers Wage
He remembers it before it arrives, To collect a far one hundred miles drives, To keep stalling payment his life deprives, Better he ended up in beehives… The end of every month full of meaning, It’s a female worker’s time for preening: In a sense, a life of subordination; No envying other’s ordination, Especially after allowances; Just watch out for Michael Jackson’s...

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Categories: wage, business, career, cry, hate,
Form: Rhyme
My Thoughts
No fence for cactus. ...

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Categories: wage, 3rd grade,
Form: Haiku
The Wage of Sin
THE WAGE OF SIN. What' should I call this? Fortune or misfortune? The fate of my curiosity. Akin to that of the cat. A child a blessing from God. But this seem not to be. A child out of wedlock! A bastard they'll call. My peers have forsaken me. My mama I opted for. The worst she has done to me. She disowned me. A salt that has...

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Categories: wage, abortion, confusion,
Form: Free verse



The Wage of Troublemaking
I stepped on his nerves And like a dog, he got to me Making me feel his vicious mood Like a sweet bitten apple That tastes the anger...

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Categories: wage, abuse, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
When the Rich Wage War
when the rich wage war, it is the poor who die overflowing their bank accounts as they lie hiding behind niceties as they make us slaves wars made to control us, which they create and crave when will we learn that segregation is to take? not just our lives, homes and human rights are at stake but our very souls as...

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Categories: wage, corruption, philosophy, political,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mind Battles We Wage
Mind battles we wage every day As of reflex instinct How long will our ego hold sway Mind with heart, not yet linked When we lower our guard Stupor takes us downward Our behaviour wayward Giving vent to rage Mind battles we wage 06-November-2021 Quietus (Syllables: HMS) ...

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Categories: wage, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
A Consistently Poor Wage
A consistently poor wage Licenses rage: An ugly fight against the cage, Steady enveloping of stagnant wage, A temper warning every wedge, Rising while lowered with vintage. Hirers open a sterile page, Not a complimenting line for a sage: Reflections of his usage, Not a half paragraph for his adage… The low income earner won’t this manage, Nor life in his fatiguing village: The vast hum drums...

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Categories: wage, anxiety, bullying, business, career,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Battles We Wage
Battles we wage, an ego urge A dream life, make belief Belying delight of bliss surge Soul lost; our thoughts the thief Play earth role, as assigned With pulse of love aligned Desires, to bin consigned Actor on stage Battles we wage 29-September-2021 Quietus...

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Categories: wage, anger, desire, fear, love,
Form: Rhyme
Minimum Wage
Minimum wage The olive trees in the landscape near the village, Have working-class trunks and no illusion Of becoming middle-class trees. They refuse to grow in a plant- nursery and be tampered with by botanists. They do not envy tall palm trees. Good luck to those who see the world through an elevated height. Good soil and water the plebian olive tree wants it has deep...

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Categories: wage, blessing, deep,
Form: Blank verse
A Diabetic To His Steward
A diabetic to his steward On the table is your sack letter, Beside my unfinished tea, no better; Four photocopies of it in my file, Their original to be collected by you; Sure evidence that your stewardship was all rubbish And that, henceforth, I would to you be snobbish. Your offence was the many sugar cubes in my tea, For which I had...

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Categories: wage, conflict, death, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fat End
We are the workers, call us an hour before an absent fill shift The pyramid sprouts atop of The heavy depths of broad ordinary, Breadth mopped and swept Silent cogs push motion Everywhere, rarely heralded Carpet of field mice scrambling Part of the pattern, crucial Expectations remain ingrained Pith of the fruit, flavour generic Bolster of bricks protects Lighthouse of blinding brains Scratching...

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Categories: wage, anger, business, endurance, poverty,
Form: Free verse
When the Rich Wage War
When the rich wage war Power is intimidating To the head low If not his ego Will rise his shoulder Higher beyond his Fears Then the disabled Is able to look at The world and see Their Shadows in reality When the rich wage war's The poor die Either in silent Or violence Shadow speak then But for who Is it for the dead...

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Categories: wage, africa, confidence, courage, leadership,
Form: Epic
Minimum Wage Day
Short money, long hours End of another minimum wage day Working class task, sweat gaze into a ceiling of glass Start of another yesterday factory pay Punch the clock ... job requirement is knuckle bare minimum Labor output don’t equal the paid sum Advancement ain’t an option, maximum effort is weekly inconsistent Fire the lazy ... hire the next bum Long hours, short money Start of another minimum...

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Categories: wage, jobs, money, society, work,
Form: Tristich

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