Work Anyway



All I do is work all day,
and when I don’t want to work
I work anyway.

Today is one of those days
where work is on the way,
and if I stop to think why
Should I do it,
I find myself astray.

So, why think of work as
something we do not want
to do, when all we do is work,
work, work even till this day!

So pardon me lads, and
let’s get to work, as
every day, all we do is
work, work, work anyway!

About this poem

It challenges the irony of perceiving the idle hand,

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Written on June 21, 2023

Submitted by pdrossmar_1 on June 21, 2023

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Scheme ABA XAXXA CXBA XCXA
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Characters 405
Words 102
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 5, 4, 4

Rev. Dr. Priscilla Dross C. Marcial, M.Div., D.Min.Cand.

Rev. Dr. Priscilla Dross C. Marcial is an American poet and educator whose works include "You Are My Sunrise", "God is Watching", "Four Wise Men" published in the Library of Congress in Immortal Verses. more…

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