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Pushing employees till they break
Categories:
work,
Form: Monoku
Young Person
Young Person
Did You Know
Miracle Man
3/15/24
Seeds of success seldom sprout,
unless watered with perspiration.
If Patience isn’t in your formula,
your shy an important ingredient.
...
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Categories:
success, work, youth,
Form: Free verse
Finding happinessAll I need is time
all I need is money
to find happiness
and what I want to do in life
until then I keep working where I am
plugging away
one day at a...
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Categories:
work,
Form: Free verse
Welcome to Social WorkMarcia makes an early start,
to try and find a space to park,
she leaves behind her playlist tunes,
for manic Monday’s duty room,
where ceremony doesn’t stand,
and days don’t turn out quite as planned,
no point wishing she’d stopped...
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Categories:
morning, work,
Form: Rhyme
Threadbarethin moon hangs in the blurring light
at the end of the day
before darkness darts onto idling pillows
a too slight shine to navigate the strain of living
wounds unstitched
like a heart unhealing from over-crowded transgressions
a feel that's...
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Categories:
change, dark, firework, light,
Form: Free verse
Life's shadowsI'm working in a warehouse loading yogurt when I should be traveling and writing. It's doing something you don't really want to do and not doing what you really want to do...
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Categories:
life, work,
Form: Monoku
Hard Work for Me is Child's Play
Categories:
humor, passion, work,
Form: Rhyme
We'll Make A Summer Man Out Of You Yet, KidWas it worth all the sleepless nights?
Days spent hunched over a computer
All to earn the right to hunch over a computer
But for wages that'd make a mute man sing
DST hit like a party drug
As spring's...
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Categories:
change, future, growth, work,
Form: Free verse
Time TrapChildhood went away
in a blink of an eye
How am I supposed
to be adult now?
Stay warm
in this cold world
where it’s seriousness
fills my veins
making me pretend
to blend in just great
Too much responsibility
I can’t take it all
it’s...
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Categories:
work, anxiety, hurt, i miss
Form: Rhyme
The hands of my brothersI've never feared a man, who went to work in boots,
Nor one that worked the fields, who grew vegetables and fruits,
Instead be on guard, for the briefcase and the suits,
Cause if they catch...
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Categories:
work, extended metaphor, integrity, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Schooldays OverThe auld fella’s auld fella left the tech
after Ripening for sixteen summers.
Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a
shovel and a pick at his lonely boots.
‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God
did he dig. there is a dignity
in breaking...
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Categories:
work, appreciation, grandfather, ireland, men,
Form: Heroic Couplet
On Your LaneStay on your lane
Where destiny has put you
There are different levels
Like different layers of soil
Do not be deceived
It's not every one but some one
that is destined to the top.
Keep working keep...
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Categories:
work, allegory, analogy, creation, identity,
Form: I do not know?
Work schedule
Categories:
work,
Form: Monoku
Freelancing
Categories:
work,
Form: Monoku
TombJohn 9:4 (KJV) I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
He has the responsibility,
Covered in dollar signs, abiding,
Beneath the shadows of...
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Categories:
work, appreciation, career, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Work Poems
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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