Best Gut Check Poems
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Categories:
gut check, adventure, art, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
FallenEvery 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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Categories:
gut check,
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A Hard Mix Between Heaven and HellThere 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
The First Step Is FearIf 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