All Labor has dignity
All labor has dignity
Brown paper bagged lunches
with a cup of Joe
sitting on a counter with a waitress
standing over
rolled up newspaper in back pocket
Worn down shoes
that walk the back streets across the tracks
they earn the bread they eat
and build for those in need
They live on common ground
worn and tired swollen hands
work their youth away
They dance like tight rope walkers
on high beams of steel
in cathedrals in the sky
Jack hammers riveters and hard hats
working rhythms of hot days
beneath a setting sun
About this poem
Inspired by book All labor has dignity by Martin Luther King
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022
Modified on March 09, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3 |
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