waterfall murmurs
a poem of golden light,
celebrating labor
Copyright 2018 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Happy Labor Day for those of us in the USA, celebrating workers whose collective determination brought about the end of child labor and workdays exceeding twelve hours. My kids start school tomorrow, always a bittersweet day. Their labor is just beginning, but at least they are not in factories trying to earn enough to eat. When demonizing regulations, remember that five-year-olds used to work in fields and factories for pennies before regulations forbid it.
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What a lovely pond!
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It was a beautiful place.
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good to remember how lucky we are –
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You know it.
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Love this!
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Thanks!
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You’re welcome.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
LOOKS LIKE THAT YOUNG ONE MIGHT BE CONSIDERING A SHORT SWIM AND SHE’S ALREADY IN HER BIRTHDAY SUIT JUST IN CASE!
i LOVE HOW BRENDA CAN USE HER HAIKU FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CONCERNS! GOOD STUFF!
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I’m glad you aren’t going to come down on the side of the man. We workers have to stick together.
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OH? SO THE LITTLE GIRL IS…IN HER BIRTHDAY SUIT? DIDN’T SEE ANY WINGS TO MAKE HER BE A FAIRY. SEEMS AN AWFULLY SMALL POND, THOUGH? I KNOW I WOULDN’T FIT! 🙂 EEVEN NAKED!
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Sculptor’s choice. I thought she was lovely and contemplative.
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She is! I have no idea what it’s like having kids—just stories from others!
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I’m not sure whether to envy you or feel sad. I’m so tired after the summer, yet I have no idea what I’d do if I wasn’t tending the kids and planning for their futures all the time. Hugs to you and your wife.
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THAT’S OKAY–SHE and I have our hands full with each other! 🙂 Your family and ours are both very blessed!
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Yes, we feel quite blessed.
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EVEN though we both wanted children, wee feel having each other is a blessing, too!
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You are blessed to have each other. We all have a purpose, and we are all loved.
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Beautiful picture! Is this in your garden?
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I wish! No, this the Elm Bank botanical garden in Wellesley, MA.
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This was so lovely, Loved the image too
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Thank you!
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Great poem, perfect sentiment. It would be great to trust people to do the right thing, but history has taught us that lack of regulation leads to abuse. Happy Labor Day!
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Exactly right. That’s why the rich people of the 1800’s were called Robber Barons.
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Thank you, Brenda, for the gentle reminder of what Labour Day is all about! I love the poem expresses peace after a long and struggle for the fair treatment of workers and their families.
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Peaceful struggle is what our country is all about, the give and take of different points of view.
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Happy Labour Day, and I hope the new school year is wonderful for your children. Our Labour Day is in October. I would like people to pay more attention to what it means. 🙂
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I feel like it’s a shell game where rich people talk about how much better off we’d be with them paying less taxes and having less regulations, but history is against that argument. The richer and more entitled they get, the less everyone else has.
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Sadly, it’s very old talk which has been proven flawed many times over. Why it keeps coming up again and again I really don’t know. Our business community here is ‘packing a sad’ (business confidence is down) because our new Government wants better regulations and living wages for workers. Yet, because the Govt has already improved conditions for workers and given more support to struggling families, retail sales were well up recently. The business community should be smiling!
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Business are always griping about their profit margin, as if they are entitled to a certain degree of wealth.
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😦 😦
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So true Brenda Happy Labor Day to you ⭐️🙏As you say not gone back to the Victorians who shoved children up chimneys
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That’s right! Kids were apprenticed quite young then, weren’t they?
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Oh yes not quite that old ….. but seeing so much of this in third world countries and cheap labor to fill the coffers of the rich and celebs God Help US If We Return To Those Days
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They are already indenturing young people with horrible educational debt.
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Reblogged this on Ace Friends & Bloggers News.
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