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Work Poems | Examples of Work Poetry

Work Poems - Examples of all types of work poetry to share and read. This list of work poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of work poetry. This list of works about work is an excellent resource for examples on how to write work poems.
Mental Torture
Hardest thing to rest Is the tiredness in the mind A daily torture....Read the rest...
Categories: work, life, mental health, recovery
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Over The Waters Blue
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar" ... Samual Taylor Coleridge Over the waters blue I love to sail, many times I get to see a big whale. Some nights the wind will sigh, like...Read the rest...
Categories: work, blue, boat, love, sea,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Beginning Again
I decided to work smarter Instead of just working harder This may seem a bit trite No need to get uptight This poem is just my restarter ...Read the rest...
Categories: work, courage, creation, humor, life,
Form: Limerick
Good Work
thank you dear farmers love you and love your neat work food, fruits, and much more...Read the rest...
Categories: farm, work,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Grindstone
A red-rimmed sun of summer, of the sweat of the workers, the salt of their brows. Shoulders to the grindstone, the strength of sinew and muscle, hours of their labors. The Lord of their lives and their eternity- gives them a dreamer's ...Read the rest...
Categories: work, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Work schedules
I remember back in the day when everything was closed on Sundays and you could take a leisurely Sunday drive with your parents and not have to worry about being anywhere at any certain time...Read the rest...
Categories: work,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Over The Top
Sun up you're up time's up get up light on paste on brush up brush down brush all around chin up shave up wash up wipe up you're out kids up mom's not suit up tie on press...Read the rest...
Categories: work, character, husband, life, marriage,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member one of these days
A job defines bits of our life Though it often causes us strife We’ll find a new fit If we choose to quit And not slit our wrists with a knife...Read the rest...
Categories: work, angst, career, cry, dream,
Form: Limerick
Blue Collar, White Collar
Blue collar school, Blue collar play, Blue collar children, Blue collar praise, Blue collar words, Blue collar phrased, Blue collar work, Blue collar pay, Blue collar union, Blue collar say, Blue collar terraced, Blue collar glazed, Blue collar town, Blue collar ways, Blue collar nights, Blue collar days, Blue collar skies, Blue...Read the rest...
Categories: work, children, day, house, night,
Form: Rhyme
I can't read minds
I don't read between the lines and I can't read minds I was unsuccessful on my last three tries you asked for my opinion but what you're seeking is agreement so I toss what I was thinking in...Read the rest...
Categories: work, analogy, confusion, journey, money,
Form: Rhyme
Unwind
When you're exhausted Take a rest and breath deeply Set task for a while....Read the rest...
Categories: care, engagement, perspective, work,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Weedy Eschatology
Weedy Eschatology By Mark D. Stucky The aging street mourns its faded splendor. It remembers having red tulips and roses in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns in community yards lining its borders. But neighborhoods gradually decayed, and nobody’s planted flowers in years. The asphalt’s...Read the rest...
Categories: work, character, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Out to Lunch
Joe’s out to Lunch He’ll be back right away (Try again, sucker next Friday) Joe just stepped out ...Read the rest...
Categories: integrity, sorry, work,
Form: Rhyme
Plastic Flowers
My basket full of plastic flowers: Pricing them passes all the hours....Read the rest...
Categories: flower, jobs, work,
Form: Crystalline
I love this job
. Click Click "like this" click click click Click "under the" yeah sshhhnap oooops ...Read the rest...
Categories: work, adventure, allegory, beautiful, native
Form: Carpe Diem

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Definition | What is Work in Poetry?


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