LABOUR Day

First proposed in ’82,

Endorsed in ’94,

The Labour Day that we all know,

Esteemed the working doer.

 

Those hardy souls who underwrote,

The countries that we know,

Helped to make them what they are,

Ensure that they would grow.

 

Let’s celebrate them, everyone,

The working girls and guys,

Who keep our nations well and strong,

And help us all to rise!

 

But…

 

To someone wearing other than

The working man’s attire,

A Labour Day, to some of us,

Means something else entire.

 

Now we have further ways to cheer

These others we speak of,

A day marked down in early May

Is joined with equal love.

 

So Labour Day to some means one…

To some of us another,

I’ve celebrated six myself…

Each one made me a mother!

Cause Mondays do get knocked a lot,
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen, Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?

Comes with a straw, is icy cold,

Join us next week--we'll NOT withhold!

Thinking of joining us for Poetry Monday?

We'd love to welcome you!
Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)...

Labour Day (September 5) Today!

Chocolate Milk Shakes (September 12)

Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19)

Field Trips (September 26)

Name Your Car (October 3)
Octopus (or something squishy) (October 10)
Most Memorable Italian Meal (October 17)
Bathtubs (October 24)

Halloween -or- your favourite Knock-Knock Joke (October 31) 

Oatmeal (November 7)