TIME WAITS FOR NOBODYOn a sunny day
Right in my parlour
Laying on the couch
I was going through my phone
Then I paused for a moment
Because of the sound of our wall clock.
The time keeps ticking
Every second
You see how busy nature is
Why sitting without labouring?
Don't choose comfort
At the age of labour
Then you...
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Categories:
work, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic
COAL MINING GIRLSWhen their years then approach teenage
In manual work they must engage
So they’re sent out to earn a wage
Some are sent to work in the pit
A filthy world that’s candle lit
To help owner make huge profit
The collier men there hack and hack
With pick axes they break the rock
To win those tons of precious black
Those colliers are...
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Categories:
child abuse, work,
Form: Rhyme
We Are PlantsWe are spring plants
Stretching towards the sunlight,
There is no excuse for "I can't"s
If we strive and don't lose sight
We will bloom and produce fruit
As long as the summer season permits,
If we work with an earnest pursuit
In autumn we can harvest the benefits....
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Categories:
endurance, life, work,
Form: Rhyme
What Immigrants Really WantCome out of the darkness, stand in the light.
Speak from your heart and give us insight.
Don’t treat us like animals lured by honey.
Saying you care and you’ll give us your money.
Offer instead, a small thread of hope,
A plan to slow, illegal immigration, guns, dope.
Shore up our borders, build a great wall,
Help the murder and theft...
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Categories:
work, america, dark, dream, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
A Farmer's Right Proud
Tilling the fields ‘neath a hot blazing sun
Removing the weeds when the rain's pouring down
Baling the hay in the heat and humidity
Breathe the dust of the chicken coop, abject...
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Categories:
work, dedication, farm, grave, pride,
Form: Couplet
at one with nature
Categories:
work, appreciation, day, endurance, farm,
Form: Haiku
RoofersSurefooted men work hard on the roof.
Their job: to make sure it's all leak-proof.
But in the heat, they're baking
and the work is back-breaking.
Of their travails I'll not be aloof....
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Categories:
appreciation, work,
Form: Limerick
LITERATURE
To be literary
only if it is of matrix
of all colors
high writing
only if it is sculpted
iron and strength
...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, poetry, work,
Form: Couplet
Artisan at work
Categories:
work, 5th grade, girl, mom,
Form: Free verse
Algorithm And Blues
Gotta go to school it's the same old story
teach me a lesson would be good for me
learning all the rules five days of the week
don't fall behind don't think don't speak
gotta go to work it's the same sad story
get me a job that's sure to bore me
working for a wage five days of the week
don't...
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Categories:
work, blue, dance, how i
Form: Rhyme
Thieves stealing and rewriting my work ON this websiteTo to dummy that has been stealing my work
I have my original work saved on an usb
Stop rewriting and changing titles on my work
They always blame things on hackers, but this is an inside jobs
the truth is the truth,
Its time for this old patriarchial system to die
these covens will be done away with!...
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Categories:
work, religion,
Form: Free verse
On My MindWritten December 19, 2024
Constantly find myself looking for a thrill
Another day another week another year but still
I might as well be right back where it all began
Still looking in the stands for my biggest fan
Nothing compares to the fever dream
Yet I think I might be running out of steam
At times I dream of the corner...
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Categories:
work, anxiety, depression, dream, feelings,
Form: Lyric
The Noise Here is Too QuietThe city speaks in static
not loud, not soft, just
indifferent.
It hums beneath the sky's neon bruise,
where overpasses arc like broken spines
above rivers of unmoving faces.
I wait for nothing at the pedestrian bend
a chipped corner where the dust
gathers like the memory of a voice
I haven't heard since home.
The gum-stained cement remembers me.
The railings dull with a thousand...
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Categories:
silence, work,
Form: Free verse
Poem for The Black HillsThey bore the winds of time
as they rose from arid lands.
They sun poked past one peak
while my work crew waited
to move to another place on the highway,
and we knew the day would fade.
We knew
highways must always be mended
and the same with our lives.
We spoke in hushed voices
among these hills
made when the earth shifted.
Somewhere beyond rested
a...
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Categories:
work, appreciation, history, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse
Heroics of the day
Oh, hail the champions of the couch potato throne,
Whose true inspiration is laziness alone!
From the depths of sloth, great inventions arise,
A tribute to those who prefer their dreams to the skies.
The remote control, a marvel of our time,
No more adjusting; we’ve reached our prime!
With just...
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Categories:
work, funny, humorous, light,
Form: Ode
Specific Types of Work Poems
Read wonderful work poetry on the following sub-topics:
anniversary, christmas, colleague, ethic, funny, hard, inspirational, job, leaving, life, stress, teamwork,
and more.
Definition | What is Work in Poetry?
Poems Related to Work
task, industry, trial, job, production, struggle, performance, endeavor, effort, functioning, trouble, stint, commission, drudge, exertion, assignment, toil, drudgery, obligation, stress, grind, sweat, daily grind, elbow grease, grindstone