Home Work Poems

Written 28 April 2024

“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
          Joseph Joubert

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Extreme cleaning my house is wearing me out,
but I’ll get through. There can be no doubt. 
Straining and scrubbing’s required.
Buckets, I’ve perspired.
I’m beyond
tired.
Though not fond
of...

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(This is something different. Playing around and having some creative fun. One word per line, three lines per stanza. What do you think? Tear it...

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All I want to do
 is just work
 just do my job 
go home 
and do it 
all over again 
40 hours 
A week
no strings
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that call, a face
    porcelain 
pressed against glass
and dead eyes wrought
from an attic room
    watching us

her name badge was
irrelevant
...

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what’s the bloodiest, the goriest 
it’s what they’re really hoping for
but bread and butter routine falls
uninjured, aging vulnerables
just needing putting back to bed
or in their...

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From morning light until 6pm at night,
I'm behind the scenes curating delight. 
With tones that echo on your radio,
blending local stories into audio.

In the heart...

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She's thirty-three, single,
her Mom babysits her
five year old son.
She reassures herself it's
just two more hours,
then it's the blessed weekend.
Which means delicious sleep.
She has no nest...

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Quote By Poet "Time is a funny thing. It is here, it is gone.
Never to be found again." 

As l get older,
I find the same...

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Work Walk

Breath fogs the space between the situation I left, for the space I am to inherit.
Just by walking the meandering path to my employ,
Mustering...

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My partner called out cars she sent
as we stood at opposite ends
of the work zone, and when
hers had passed, I called out mine
sending them along...

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...I think many of them forget
how precarious all this is,
civilization only works
if success is what we all give.
If the plumber does not succeed
that we’re all...

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With this sweaty ooze
Worker's, in a heat
Thoughts, drop by drop now repeat
Yesterday's mantra:
"Home and rest, long for.
Cool blown, heavenly.
As what yon skied do see.
Puffy for...

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How I feel sometimes after giving my employer 100% and there's nothing left for home life...

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I am now up and half asleep, 
quiet I must not make a peep, 
others are still sleeping like sheep, 
need to get dressed and...

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