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Best Gut Check Poems


Writing Muscle Boot Camp
10 reps of Haiku curls
10 reps of Irish Ballad presses
3X5 paragraphs of trenchant prose
5X Lyrical lunges
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Categories: gut check, adventure, art, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Fallen
Every morning that I wake now I speak your name
This gypsy life I live is the only gut check that causes me pain
I try so hard to bring myself home but time it seems so long
I try so hard looking into your eyes to see...

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A Hard Mix Between Heaven and Hell
There is a place where few have been
No beginning and no end
A place where I am prepared to go
They say you reap what you sow
I have done my share of very bad things
I flew home to piss on my ex-wife\'s grave
Drinking, smoking, lots of lust...

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Categories: gut check, places, song-husband, heaven, forgiveness,
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The First Step Is Fear
If I weren't afraid I'd never have made
   The decision that changed my life's direction
An absolute gut-check, no options carefully weighed
   My path took an abrupt mid-course correction

Raised with a bare modicum of religious instruction
   I knew I was...

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Categories: gut check, faith, fear, jewish,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things