Best Grit Poems

Subtitled:  I'll Walk Again

Some tomorrow soon, I shall walk again,
though not as I walked in days past.
To reach that doorway - my foremost campaign
and thus I'll keep walking my last.
Therapy is pain; it's a stormy fight
taking great effort in this cast.
The doctor reports my...

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My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of fourteen I suffered personal tragedy
When my father Frank Ross was taken from me.

By a lazy good for nothing drifter that...

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Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means spleen infamy
while intercepting it invokes Victory's voice,
in the huddle a...

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Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel and elite ego,
"Mean Joe Greene" and Jack Lambert, a compulsive punisher with no front teeth
would rather be outlaws than losers...

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The acclamation Assata Shakur received came from her political activism.
Acclimation from a political asylum was not that easy.
Yet, the ease of acceptance was aes in the political world.
A wraith of admiration was given rathe.
Esprit de corps areally existed. 
Aerial Assata was in focus.
Visionary to the...

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I slipped on a teardrop and landed upright, 
With no tigers or werewolves to scare me, 
In the long silent night so salient and tight, 
Where there was no hunger and travesty.

Desiderata mounted as a goat passions one, 
Front legs up, leaning upon his spritely...

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In nightshade she rages in fumes
And  drives me to the edge  of  unrest
Inside coal eyes, my breath exhumed
Granting her to stew, I feel pressed.

Dark tresses of fire keeps burning
A passion that ignites a whirl...
This vixen’s scold reeks like a sting
But truth of...

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grueling marathon
gumption and guts required
grit is that virtue which
gifts graceful females with
greatness despite the groans
girls give all they’ve got for
glory that comes with gold


a pleaides on the letter G
for Kim's contest
written December 1, 2016...

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Hit by the spray from the gritter on the highway,
Reminds me of insomnia, eyes rough with sand from
The beaches I can’t reach whilst mapping out my ceiling. 
Run me down a road where only salt can melt the snow....

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I looked upon the color white
In dreams that whisper in the night
And saw in waves of red and blue
Photonic frequencies of hue
The whirling energies that spin
The properties of matter
And as I stood upon the void, of wonder lost
and dreams devoid, then time was king and...

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Ten years on an island
Can that really be?
Because living near sand
Has been my fantasy.


Except when sticky grit
Gets into my food.
And invades hidden cracks
That show up when I’m nude.


Well, enough about that,
Small inconvenience.
I’ll dine on a straw mat,
Which makes a lot of sense.


And during any hour
I’ll...

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It's time to circle the wagons
because were getting attacked,
we can see the arrows flying
from way up in the back,
instead of having a peace treaty,
he chose the warpath,
just because were Republican,
and he is Democrat,
frankly, I didn't see this coming,
from a fellow poet on the soup,
I thought...

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He
like a drink
      did granpa
      Shreeve
Sergeant stripes
still on his
       sleeve-
Victorian born
        buckled belt
        boots,trousers
braced
strong
 ...

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While wandering thru the forest pines
                                      A lesson...

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My mama said “never give up, whatever you do!”
You can be anything you want to be in America
I’m not entirely sure that’s altogether true
In any case, it holds more promise than Africa.

You can be anything you want to be in America
When you’re down, someone will...

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