Poems About Professions for Free
by Nicholas Gordon

Poems about professions, poetry about professions, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose. All poems: copyright Nicholas Gordon.

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• A Receptionist Is a Person (Please Note!)
• Actors Wear a Special Mask
• An Artist Is Just like a Lake
• Beverly and Thomas Are Our Shepherds (Pastor)
• Bosses Are but Rarely Kind as You
• Composers Aren't Poseurs, One May Hope
• Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain
• Feelings Are Not Easily Counterfeited (Actor)
• Fifty-Five3 (Artist)
• Fifty-Four4 (Artist)
• Fifty-Six3 (Actor)
• Fifty-Six Devotes Himself to Beauty (Theatrical Director)
• Fifty-Three, Well Armed with Expertise (Grant Evaluator)
• Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree (Actor)
• For Someone Who Devotes His Life to Trees (Forest Ranger)
• For What Does One Live, But for Goodness and Beauty
• For You, Life Has Its Own Internal Music (Composer)
• For You There Is No Greater Good than Beauty (Director)
• For You There'll Always Be the Gift of Beauty (Artist)
• For You, Who Does Such Good, There Is a Heaven (Physician)
• For You, Who Does Such Good, There Should Be Joy (Surgeon)
• Forty-Five (Actor)
• Forty-Five6 (Composer)
• Forty-One Does Well What Few Can Do (Hand Surgeon)
• Gerontologists Are Generally Gentle
• Great Bosses Grant the Glory They Receive
• Hrithik (Actor)
• Identity Requires Memory (Historians)
• Librarians Are Those We Trust with Treasures
• Nurses Must Be Angels by Profession
• Pastors Are Supposed to Be the Shepherds
• Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art (Jazz Historian)
• Secretaries Seek Some Signs of Pleasure
• Shall There Be a Moment After All (Actor)
• Sing of Secretaries! Office Angels
• Sing of the Eternal Moment (Actor)
• So You Want to Make Your Living in the Theater
• Social Workers Put a Human Face
• Some Pass Silently Across the Stage (Artist)
• The Past Is Never Over (Archeologist/Anthropologist)
• The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls (Game Designer)
• Therapists Find Fortune in Misfortune (Therapist)
• There Is Beauty at the Heart of Business
• There Is No Better Bonus than Just You (Boss)
• There Is No Gift More Precious than One's Health (Health Professions)
• There Is No Better Painting than a Sunrise (Artist)
• There Is No Greater Passion than for Beauty (Artist)
• Thirty-Eight6 (Artist)
• Thirty-Eight8 (Hand Surgeon)
• Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder (Hand Surgeon)
• Thirty-Six4 (Archeologist/Anthropologist)
• Tiffany2 (Nurse)
• Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most (Therapist)
• To a Priest on His Retirement
• To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty (Artist)
• We Put Our Greatest Treasures in Your Hands (School Bus Drivers and Attendants)
• Win or Lose, What's at Stake Is Grace (Football Players in the World Cup)
• You Put Yourself in Harm's Way (Policemen and Firemen)

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