Let Us Honor Capital and Labor

September 10, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is labor, in honor of Labor Day, which falls on September 5.

Today’s poem is a Labor Day poem about the need to find the right balance between profit and wages.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Let us honor capital and labor,

As both must win for either not to lose.

Blessings are not always what we choose,

Overcoming what we think we favor.

Remember we must earn what we would spend;

Decent wages augur decent sales.

And little profit little pork entails,

Yielding yields too lean to long defend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/letush.html. For more Labor Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/labordaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Labor.

September 5: Lest You Think High Taxes Rob the Rich

September 6: Labor Ought to Earn a Decent Living

September 7: Labor’s a Commodity, like Fish

September 8: Let’s Not Minimize the Role of Thugs

September 9: Labor Day Officially Ends Summer

September 10: Let Us Honor Capital and Labor