Best Guts Poems

Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a carpenter,
where ink stains fight oil slicks,
where the soft susurrations of...

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Oh the venom on these lips
cold fury should you
taste it there.  Drink
deep my gathering gloom
quench your thirst for
my lies and my truths
and my muted thoughts.

Stand still frozen dead
in pools of wonder and
dread for this poison
that seeps into your
pores will not soon
leave the haunted spaces
your...

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It takes guts to do what I do…
Torturing those pathetic young women…
Laughing as their eyes roll deep back in their sockets

It takes guts to do what I do…
Making them beg for their lives
Ohh how they cry and promise me anything…
Literally, anything
Stupid tramps!

It takes guts to...

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Need a pill
Wanna die
Wanna hear
Pounding nails

Shut my eyes
Close the lid
Let it end
Please let it end

In my guts
My filthy guts
Poison rise
In my head
Dark abides
In my soul
Tantalize
Wanna die
Let it end
Please let it end

What has begging ever done
For a misbegotten rotten son

Saliva drips
From my lips
Eyelids flutter 
Painful shudder
Smashing...

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I know i have kept a lot from you.
I know its not fair. 
I know i should tell you.
I know i have to tell you.

Maybe i can tell you some, but not all.
Maybe i can keep it secret just a little longer.
Maybe i can hide...

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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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Life seems-like an ever forbidden story {!!!} one day you're happy, the very 
     next...{?}  "You know the story".  Why are we still feeling the wraft of an im-
     plicable story? "No Guts No Glory."
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GUTS and GAIN

When only hymns of old memoirs and faith starred,
as I lift my eyes, black! Blue is the sun and moon,
will shadows be my frown and sins my ground?
(Gone are the days of pleasure and days of sleep...)

Anxiety escalates clogging the wise thoughts flow,
light...

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Guts, Determination Blood Sweat and Tears 
Who can say they have not used that combination
That is the combination that makes famous people, heroes and idles  
What is the difference between famous people, heroes, idles and you 
The amount of followers 

Let’s look at 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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Success  or  Failure’s Failure


Was it success or failure’s failure,
The will to win or a refusal to lose.
No guts, no glory!! – no pain, no gain!!

He stayed the course – unnoticed,
walked early through the cold mist,
prayed to a heartless, distant god,

answered the call every...

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I see people of different race and culture
so calm and calculative i stare like the vulture.
I see mothers with babies strapped to their backs-
and men with goods in woven sacks.
I see the child with the hope of tomorrow,
so do i see the old with tears...

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Lieutenant General Georgie Patton also known as "Old Blood and Guts"

   Was so eccentric and egotistical that many people thought him nuts!

      His armored divisions delivered relief to the beleaguered at Bastogne,

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If you're willing to put yourself out there
If you are truly ready for the fight
Do not expect unicorns and sunshine
More likely you'll get bruises black as night

We're told that with guts we'll find the glory
If a few chances we're willing to take
But if we don't...

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Gotta  have   guts   to   fall   and   rise, 
To buck the trend and wrest the prize,
To   thrust  your  life   in  hands of mates,
To believe in self, tempt the fates.
Each day  give yourself a surprise.

Night's dark mantle leads to sunrise,
Rise   from  the  dust   with  this  surmise. 
Cock a...

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