Best Coarseness Poems


Premium Member The Next Isle Over
...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 ho......

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Categories: coarseness, fun, heart, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mirrors Age
...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 would have them, these leaves of gold
......

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Categories: coarseness, age, allegory, autumn, creation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Spiced Pains
...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 of swift marches
To they who aspire ......

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Categories: coarseness, inspiration, success, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

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Stuck In a Rut
...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 that are war like with little understanding of......

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Categories: coarseness, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pawns Brokers
...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 support the flaws
of th......

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Categories: coarseness, military, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Harmony 69 Movement 5
...Will you burn the earth`s  skin  to glass?. 

Yet, right there , in Harmony of `69
I bent  in adoration 
before the dusky pearl of your forehead
the soft slopes of your never-ending body
shifti......

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Categories: coarseness, history, hope, love, me,
Form: Epic


Premium Member Chores
...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 if you......

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Categories: coarseness, change,
Form: Quatrain
The Quantum Problem With Trump
...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, bullish pedestrian?  
 
Freedom of......

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Categories: coarseness, america, image, leadership, people,
Form: Rhyme
China Girl
...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,
......

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Categories: coarseness, inspirational, love, people, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cathedral of Stone
...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.
Knowledg......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coarseness, devotion, faith, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Love Lost Then Love Found
...Love lost that fiery feeling
babbling bitterness,
Much mundane coarseness came
pausing prime progress.
Though interval inspired
tantalising tone,
Where gracious grieving gratitude
brought the ......

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Categories: coarseness, fire, lost love, love,
Form: Alliteration
A Waterfront Wish On Mother's Day
...Mom, I embrace the SunShine
Mom, I embrace the Rain
Mom, I alleviate the coarseness of the grind
Mom, I eliminate all pain
Mom, I welcome all rhythms that move me
Mom, I relax the most easily tr......

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coarseness, mothers day, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
When Long Johns Get Religion
...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 knockin’
And it’s then that you sure k......

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coarseness, confusion, cowboy-western, funny,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Once Or Twice
...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 rays 
a mirage that evaporates into evening dust 

once or twice I thought......

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coarseness, introspection,
Form: Free verse
As Is Each Day of Years To Come
...As is each day of years to come 

~

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

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Categories: coarseness, love,
Form: Rhyme
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