Best Coarseness Poems

There I was.

Inside a crowded Toys R Us
On a mid-Winter’s evening

Abrasively loud 5 year olds
And depressed fathers
Ready to throw their “angelic” brethren
Into life-size Nerf basketball...

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As morn braces against the emptiness of night
And cock crows echo in waves of yellow light

Fallen mixed colors brush along the coarseness’ of stone
As fall...

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The rock that to the climber reaches out with
jagged arms
And to the sore foot of a traveler turns a tough
rough back
Holds within its harshness
The promise...

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Pawns Brokers


“Grit is a better word or term”.
They have it – these “Grunts” - grit –
that sandpaper bearded coarseness
structure in the face of fallacy,
backbone to...

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We’ve created life that makes us see each other indifferently
In your world, I am an intruder while in mine, you are the coarseness. 
Making conflicts...

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Will you burn the earth`s  skin  to glass?. 

Yet, right there , in Harmony of `69
I bent  in adoration 
before the dusky...

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Now day follows day
Plunges into dust,
Along that old play
Between trust and thrust.


Now just for a while
Accord a kind will,
Unhinge with a smile
That coarseness you feel.


Now...

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Is Donald Trump not essentially American, 
An exemplary icon of quintessential America? 
A normal man to the loud, confident American, 
The pride of the burly,...

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Myself, a cup:

Resting quietly
in a stained glass cabinet,
I wait for Desire’s approach
upon the uppermost 
shelf:

That moment--

when the warm coarseness of His leather
dares to reach,
when the...

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Within the cold gray stone,
It lives a spiritual humming,
A strumming rhythm of natures
Raw essence.
Breathing rock inhaling, exhaling
As the earthen elemental surrounding
Conscious thought.
Knowledge’s smoothed edges, leave
Reasons...

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When long johns get religion
And you’re fallin’ out the door—
And bowels just move a smidgeon
When they need to move much more—

Then ol’ north winds come...

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I want to unburry my smiles from the dust of Kachikau covals;
I want to whistle hope beyond the edge of Life's coarseness,
I want to wade...

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once or twice I thought I saw you 
where shadow stretches long across the rock lawn 
but it was just the heat from the sun’s...

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As is each day of years to come 

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O’ blustered winds - of coarseness flow
Upon these lips atone
Yon murmured fields of slowly strolled
To quest as...

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I am both wind and whisper
as the tenderness of life's rush
mellows the passage of posterity

I am both forgiving and fiery
to the softening of obduracy

I can...

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