Best Fists Poems

Teeth clutched in furious fists,
Miles high above the mists,
Eyes thrust on identity’s this,
A smile wandering far amiss.

So this is the face of a simile,
Resting peacefully in eternity,
Here’s a figure of stoic rectitude,
Reflecting over mass ineptitude.

Of time I once knew,
When my lady a sword withdrew,
A flirt...

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Written August 28, 2015


Just another night at the disco
Just another night puting on a show
Pouring our souls over the sweat drenched fists pumping on the dance floor
They scream out like flowers in a spring bloom
Dancing on E Street with Crazy Horse
Breaking hearts in the back...

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crouched in the corner
her head is covered
face blood smothered
when the bruises fade
their replaced with another
she looks in the mirror
with makeup she covers
drops to her knees
hangs her head and she cries
each day that passes, another piece of her dies
he sees her crying and calls her weak
hits...

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unclench your fists
there's no fighting here
why are you so hostile?...

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Sometimes the pain hits me in the face
Sometimes I need your fingers and lace...

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Ó my steel fists, see, I rolled up the sleeves with subtle splendor;
to see my strength my beard rigid,
my darkness behind these my eyes
bewitched...[...]
that took away the spell
to see the curves,and the wheels,
 and the weights of my consciences,
ye fools, Ó my handles of steel,
they...

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He said "Look what you made me do!"
his words that had turned her black and blue.

Her children's eyes are scarred for life,
they saw their father beating his wife.

They don't 
remember what their daddy did,
a child's memories can be sadly dismissed..

They grow up claiming their father's...

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Rocky Marciano was the only Heavyweight champion who couldn't be beat.
In all of his forty-nine prizefights, he never once suffered a defeat.
This awesome boxer had heart, stamina and he was strong.
Some people also thought that Mike Tyson couldn't be beat but they were wrong.
Marciano was...

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A regal black Prince stood atop a college curb.
Standing majestically at 5'4 however, slightly more than I atop the stone.
He was narrating a past fight he had fought with a tall white antagonist; who was not I for me and the Prince were friends.
I was...

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they look up
hands cuff
its saying things
like there a change
to let you know
this is a no show
and we can't miss
if we do this
doing itwith
a
STRONG FISTS...

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    His plaintive cry pierced the air
       pleading to travel somewhere

    Sympathizers marched in a faraway square
       their fists clenched in slogans
  
   ...

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    the public thoroughfare
      pummeled, profaned
    verbal fists rumble from 
      amped-up throats...  

    a generation or two
      with nothing...

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Since he first walked, he made the outdoors his
while at home, paternal love was shown with fists.
His Mother’s love wasn’t enough for him to resist
leaving home and his Father’s frequent body hits.
He fell to his knees, “God, I need to be a man
and I’m only...

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