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Four Poems Of Earning And Pondering

These are original poems created through the course between work and pondering joy.

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Four Poems Of Earning And Pondering
Gavin Glen Johnson

At this point of summer, I write alone as I ponder memories alone. If I was the same clueless person from four summers ago, it would be hard to imagine and to take advantage the daily life's finest hours. Sometimes, you have to feel lucky to even walk anywhere with some protection on your feet. We all work to earn. We all learn to receive. Memories may only last with its significance like how I try to compare size of a Northern Pike close to my upper body. (The cover photo was taken around the end of August 2012.)

I present four poems of trimphing the real world with the simpler pleasures towards the end:


1. Steel-Toe

More overtime shifts result

the hours eating up insanity.

You push, crush and grind at the mines.


Leaving dusts everywhere traceable,

the working man lives up and stays tough

like he walks everywhere in steel-toe boots.

He grows hefty branches from his feeding roots.

He supports his family- protective like leather-

his branches does grow money

while his roots settle on a bed of rocks.


A tensed laborer kicks around steel-toe boots.


2. Too Much On Top, Too Little On Bottom

Every morning before the boss comes

Roger races against time.

Hectic hours- minutes of misery-

entitles the working class.

Roger stays low as a dishwasher

while he does the mental math of equal pay.


The boss cannot add up his morals

or subtract the facts with his own opinion.

He lives on top of an improper fraction

while the bottom works for very little.


3. Not Wanting To Wake Up

Body glued to the bed.

Both shoulders planted in the sheets.

I cannot move

within the first few minutes

of my alarm going off.

I sit up more after a loud yawn

over all of that buzzing.

I lay back down

because my pillow is too soft

to even row around.

The comforter restrains me

from a well-made bed

carrying on mornings of comfort.


4. Angling Fight

My arms tan and soak the August sun.

The lake calms the boat finally.

The tip of my rod flexes more

after a few twitches.


I set the hook on the Northern Pike-

tugging by its bottom lip.

Before the drag got tighter,

the fish became a fighter-

only captured by the net.


Holding under its bottom lip,

I let loose my trusty lure.

Celebrating smile, colored wrists

and a slimy left hand attracts

the a glorious catch.

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