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Working Her Fingers To The Bone
Working Her Fingers To The Bone Poems - Poems about Working Her Fingers To The Bone
Love and Life
...Life throws so many curves at you sometimes you don't know where to turn you don't know what to do it seems that you are climbing a mountain that seems to keep going. Working your fingers to the b......
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Quondreika Cheatham
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
joy, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Daddy's Hand: Images
...Big hands of this man Who I remember as a child? Growing up in and at a time, When real men were fathers then. Supporting that family, no matter what, Working their fingers to the bone Tr......
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Kenneth R. Jenkins
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
celebration, dad, father, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Little But Oh So Mighty
...She was little but oh so mighty She had to be From a family of fourteen Self preservation the key Left home at sixteen Joined the army Married at twenty four Widowed at thirty seven with a y......
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Deb M
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
appreciation, character, inspiration, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Live Like You Get One Try
...I was working my fingers to the bone Making a half days pay Wondering what this life's really worth Always worried what people say An old man who was watching me Said he could see it in my eye......
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Kelly Hitchcock
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
adventure, appreciation, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
Unrest of Spirit
...She ran herself ragged working her fingers to the bone for she didn't want to think about him nor be left alone her feelings were a phantom mirror of her spectre self torn by grief, she had no......
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Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
A 3 N 1 For the Contests
...I thought I would try entering Three Contest With one poem-- MY POETRY SOUP RECIPE By Cindi Rockwell A NATURAL METAPHOR ......
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Jerry T Curtis
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
Truthbomb
...Natural resources plundered worldwide Everyone's a suspect Watching us and all we do Working our fingers to the bone until the day we die One world government the ultimate plan Rights to free ......
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Ben Brennan
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
life, political, social, world,
Form:
Acrostic
The Rug
...As Several look all the way up And stare at the sky Some will ask what and how Others will ask what and why. What must I do to get there And how long will it take? What did I do wrong, ......
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Damien Charles
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
allegory, life, love, magic,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Life
...Life, the simplest thing in the world we love to complicate, We fill it with theories of utopias and meaningless successes. We fight over land and power while getting furiously lost in debates. We ar......
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Joshua Torres
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
life, life, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter To Daddy
...I had just awakened from a night before drunk. I needed a tall, cold glass of refreshing water. I tried to stand but I couldn't. So I sat, and there it was. A letter fom my daughter. I reached a......
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James Chenevert
Categories:
working her fingers to the bone,
angst, recovery from..., brother,
Form:
Rhyme