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Workhorse Poems - Poems about Workhorse

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: workhorse, depression, hope, horse, men,
Form: Couplet
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. ____________________________ A ......

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Categories: workhorse, business, humor, people,
Form: Limerick



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 ......

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Categories: workhorse, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: workhorse, woman,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: workhorse, best friend, birthday, death,
Form: Free verse



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 ......

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Categories: workhorse, color, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: workhorse, beautiful, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: workhorse, blue, boxing day , bridal
Form: Blank verse
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......

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Categories: workhorse, bereavement, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: workhorse, horse, life,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: workhorse, history, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: workhorse,
Form: Free verse
Nightmare
...dont be a nightmare toiling on and sleepless a workhorse in the dark......

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Categories: workhorse, life, loss, mystery, on
Form: Senryu
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: workhorse, history, spacehome, earth, home,
Form: Rhyme
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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Categories: workhorse, adventurebody, drug,
Form: Free verse

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