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"workman" poems

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Elephants Are Different to Different PeopleWilson and Pilcer and Snack stood before the zoo elephant. / Wilson said, "What is its name? Is it from Asia or Africa? Who feeds / it? Is it a he or a she? How old is it? Do they have twins? How much does

Carl Sandburg20

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Lost LinkA proud man, / Upright and unshakable / In belief and morals,

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Bound—a trouble269 / Bound—a trouble— / And lives can bear it!

Emily Dickinson11

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White AshTHERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice. / She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three pushbuttons on the front door. / Now she is alone with a parrot and goldfish and two white mice ... but these are some of her thoughts:

Carl Sandburg15

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Peeress: What tools do you require?peeress: a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right. / ***what tools fo you require?*** / a microscope, binoculars, perhaps an observatory telescope...

@onlylovepoetry49

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The GyresTHE GYRES! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth; / Things thought too long can be no longer thought, / For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth,

William Butler Yeats24

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Winged ManThe moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, / The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, / The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar,

Stephen Vincent Benet37

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In The Moonlight“O lonely workman, standing there / In a dream, why do you stare and stare / At her grave, as no other grave where there?”

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Boys of SummerAt what point does one's status / Change from normal to elite? / Is it when a career is ended ?

@roger-turner51

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The AltarA broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears, / Made of a heart and cemented with tears; / Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;

George Herbert16

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Somethin Like A Love PoemThey were so not interested when the brother was so very available / Lonely even and longing to be needed longing to be loved it / Didn’t seem like it cuz he could be so very surly but desperately longing

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Green shoots of recoverySomething made me smile / as I passed the place today / where the beech nuts used to pile

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I'm easy like Sunday morningAs I sit here in my kitchen / I watch my lover work / *(Trying to fix the boiler!)*

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A Song of DefeatI hammered some words / Out from the quarry of my brain / They fell around in shards;

@valsa-george29

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A Valediction: Of WeepingLet me pour forth / My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here, / For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear,

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Workman's CompI can't tell you how many times I have done this before / Sliced tomatoes with a dull santoku / My ankle bells jingle

@holly-salvatore20

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of loss & primal ancestryThe workman told you to bury a curled dark lock / Of your dead baby’s hair in the earth, / A quiet offering to a quieter god

@girl-diffused28

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Sisyphean StatueI wake up on my sofa after / Work, knowing she needs / Workman's hands to hold

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Six Floors UpAlgiers, six / floors up but / still

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The Ballad of Little Boots (Enclosed in a Christmas Card to a Dear Friend)When I was younger in a different time / I had a habit on a special date, / Or on an occasion, to write a rhyme,

@thomas-newlove28

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Money WALKS . with Frank Ruland~~~ / *A rich woman / Walked down the street

@SoulSurvivor75

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Lent2/20/2015 / "*Lust too is a jewel / a sweet flower and what

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More from the warehouse.As Monday mourns the weekend's passing / men are massing / at the shipyards,steelyards,

@john-edward-smallshaw27

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JimJim / To start I am amazed and baffled why such a loser as myself has had the privilege of knowing so many uncommon people. If nature won’t tolerate a vacuum then God will not allow a deficit life so if one is incomplete he will surly surround it with the right amount of good people. / Old Abe said it right ‘It is right and fitting that we speak these words here to honor these lives so honorably lived. I can say that about Jim and this also he was a prince among men if I do this right the words will convince you.

@hal-loyd-denton13

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Kindergarten UniverseWish I could read every book / In this world. / Wish I could shake every hand

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