Workhorse Poems - Poems about Workhorse

A Thought for Labor Day

...
   Is man but a workhorse
      to be slowly ground to death

   To slice his limbs to ribbons
      on a slaughterhouse machine

   To breathe in sewer muck and mire
      or hurl on tracto...

Boastful bosses 2

...Initiative, nor ambition upfront,
Hire him, he’ll be good as my assistant,
I just want a workhorse,
Not one for the racecourse,
A pony’s oft good if not adamant.
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A ...

PEN

...PEN

At first, it was just another pen
A ballpoint, as is called by some
Not one in that old clear plastic
But shiny metal, looking fantastic
A present, as fancy as they come
Quite the classy ...

Celie's Life

...Four score and many more 
And still within her prime 
In her mind and in the woods, 
Hunting, fishing, trapping, 
A workhorse of a woman. 
Watch her go- swing the axe, 
Cleaving wood, making fe...

Everything After a Nightmare

...It was here 
Here where 
Everything fell apart
Went to hell
I am to blame
A workhorse lamed

I was awake 
Alone in it
All the aftermath
You were never coming home
Not in a way that I could...

Black Men Die

...in a country where the black man is enemy number one 
where police so quick to use a gun, how do i live
 they attack one of us they attack all of us 
black men have been crucified in this country ...

Windmill On the Hill

...On the rise of a hill overlooking the bend,
where the old gravel road seems to narrow and blend,
stands the bony old legs made of timber and nail

With regal restraint, neither praise...

Viagra

...Viagra
 
I get irritable over emails about Viagra 
the pill that is about extending the natural evolution   
from stud to an old workhorse.
Everything comes to an end and to make love with 
the...

Lf52 Asv

...LF52 ASV
Farewell Independence 106,
You served our Joseph well,
From driving lessons, 
To Scottish holidays,
What stories you could tell,
Also a runaround for me,
LF52 ASV

Dearest Peugeot m...

A Horse Life

...In a horse life.We can play with a burlap feed
bag, an empty milk jug, or chew on the barn stall
door.Just to kill some time, or to kill some every
day bordom.In a horse life.We get names like
Bl...

Mary

...great aunt, kissed me yesterday
after bidding fond adieu's 
to fleeting flashbacks of youth

streaks of invincibility 
stiffened her spine when a gentleman came calling
courting her future
a l...

Beauty In the Wind

...On the rise of a hill, overlooking the bend
Where the old gravel road, seems to narrow and blend
Stands your bony remains, weathered timber and nails
Posing regal contentment, without ...

Nightmare

...dont be a nightmare
toiling on and sleepless
a workhorse in the dark...

Big Bird's Final Flight

...(To commemorate the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery)

A majestic bird flared for a picture perfect landing on this historic day.
Its tires gently kissed the welcoming earth in a magnif...

The Helicopter Flight

...One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the job at the navy repair facility, apparently...

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