Skip to content
  • Rostie Publishing Bookstore
  • Rostie Publishing
  • RECALCITRANCE PUBLISHING – an imprint of Rostie Publishing
  • Flint Poets and Writers Database
  • Home
  • ROY’S WORDS
  • GAIL’S POETRY
  • KATE’S POETRY
  • WORDS BY OTHERS

Ramblings of an Old Coot

Creative poems, thought and writings. Complaints. Insights. And more…

Tag: poetry

THE  TRAMP by Joe Hill

Tune, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Go Marching. If you all will shut your trap, I will tell you ’bout a chap, That was broke and up against it, too, for fair; He was not the kind that shirk, He was looking hard for work. But he heard the same old story everywhere. Chorus:Tramp, tramp,… Read More THE  TRAMP by Joe Hill

February 4, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

THE  OLD TOILER’S MESSAGE

THE OLD TOILER’S MESSAGEAir: “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” “Darling, I am growing old” — So the toiler told his wife — Father Time the days have tolled Of my usefulness in life. Just tonight my master told me He can’t use me anymore. Oh, my darling, do not scold me. When the wolf comes… Read More THE  OLD TOILER’S MESSAGE

February 3, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DEE-AY by Joe Hill

I had a job once threshing wheat. Worked sixteen hours with hands and feet, And when the moon was shining bright, They kept me working all the night. One-moonlight night — I hate to tell, I accidently slipped and fell: My pitchfork went right in between Some cog wheels in the thresh machine. Chorus —… Read More TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DEE-AY by Joe Hill

February 2, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

The Worker Ants 006

The little worker ants, That puff their chests out, And speak of social injustice, In unearned honor and importance.Pronounce that they represent the folks back home. The foolish that cast their votes in ignorance, Driven to a lie-filled, fearful frenzy, That became hatred and malice.While all the while, their true intentions, Hidden in lies and… Read More The Worker Ants 006

February 1, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

REVEILLE by Lola Ridge

REVEILLE by Lola RidgeCOME forth, you workers! Let the fires go cold — Let the iron spill out, out of the troughs — Let the iron run wild Like a red bramble on the floors — Leave the mill and the foundry and the mine And the shrapnel lying on the wharves — Leave the… Read More REVEILLE by Lola Ridge

January 29, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

The Star by Lola Ridge

LAST night I watched a star fall like a great pearl into the sea, Till my ego expanding encompassed sea and star, Containing both as in a trembling cup.

January 28, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

DISPOSSESSED  by Lola Ridge

TENDER and tremulous green of leaves Turned up by the wind, Twanging among the vines — Wind in the grass Blowing a clear path For the new-stripped soul to pass . . . The naked soul in the sunlight . . . Like a wisp of smoke in the sunlight On the hill-side shimmering. Dance… Read More DISPOSSESSED  by Lola Ridge

January 27, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

EARTH AND THE SEASONS by Théophile Gautier

THE rose-pink Earth in April wears The flush of youth; A maiden still, she hardly dares To meet Spring’s troth! When June comes, paler grows her brow In passion’s pain. She hides with sunburnt Summer now Among the grain. In August’s mad bacchante mood She bares her breast To Autumn, rolling in the blood Of… Read More EARTH AND THE SEASONS by Théophile Gautier

January 26, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

THE  TIDINGS by Lola Ridge

(Easter 1916) CENSORED lies that mimic truth . . . Censored truth as pale as fear . . . My heart is like a rousing bell — And but the dead to hear . . . My heart is like a mother bird, Circling ever higher, And the nest-tree rimmed about By a forest fire… Read More THE  TIDINGS by Lola Ridge

January 25, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

TO  ALEXANDER  BERKMAN by Lola Ridge

CAN you see me, Sasha? I can see you. . . . A tentacle of the vast dawn is resting on your face that floats as though detached in a sultry and greenish vapor. I cannot reach my hands to you . . . would not if I could, though I know how warmly yours… Read More TO  ALEXANDER  BERKMAN by Lola Ridge

January 24, 2025September 21, 2025 rostie06Leave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
Follow Ramblings of an Old Coot on WordPress.com

Blog Stats

  • 7,640 hits

My Facebook Page

My Facebook Page
TAGS N SUCH

Anarchist Anarchy book-review book-reviews Book of the Week Books Christmas Dead Poets of Flint Essay feminist Fiction Flint Michigan GAIL'S POETRY Gautier Théophile Gaylia Kenslow Stogsdill Genealogy General Motors Genesee County history History of Flint Horror Joe Hill KATE'S POETRY Katherine Cary Place labor Little Worker Ants Lola Ridge Music news philosophy poetry politics RECALCITRANCE PUBLISHING ROSTIE PUBLISHING Roy's Essays Roy's Poetry ROY'S WORDS Roy's Works Sitdown Socialist Travel UAW Union Voltairine de Cleyre writing

What am I currently reading?

Menu

  • Rostie Publishing Bookstore
  • Rostie Publishing
  • RECALCITRANCE PUBLISHING – an imprint of Rostie Publishing
  • Flint Poets and Writers Database
  • Home
  • ROY’S WORDS
  • GAIL’S POETRY
  • KATE’S POETRY
  • WORDS BY OTHERS

Top Posts & Pages

  • Flint Faience Tile Co. - Rostie Publishing
  • Conditional
  • Congratulations Amy by Gaylia Kenslow Stogsdill
  • May 2026
  • April 2026
  • March 2026
  • February 2026
  • January 2026
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • September 2022
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Ramblings of an Old Coot
    • Join 103 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Ramblings of an Old Coot
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...