Best Hard As Nails Poems

A Troll in My Trunk
(Inspired by the YouTube video ‘A Monkey in your Trunk’)


Ok! Some crazy person made a YouTube video, about a monkey in...

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The trail was long and very dusty
great clouds churned up by hooves
of the vast herd being wrangled on
300 more miles of eating their dust

Bandana's tightly...

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Down in Alabam where big sweet taters grow
lives great aunt Cyndi diggin dirt with a hoe.
Up in the morn bout the crack o’ dawn
see for...

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A Comrade like Ben

A statesman like Mandela diplomatically
suspended the necessary struggle of opposites,
gummed his fragmented land together with reconciliation….
exploiters to exploited , murderers to martyrs
imperialist...

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Judo

My façade it is ‘hard as nails’, I must survive that way.
But when they got to know me well, it’s then, I heard some say.
That...

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This is it the real me, the me you haven’t met
I bet you don’t believe it, that’s if you do bet
I am tall, but not...

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He’s tender and caring in his own way,
From moving cattle to bucking hay;

He’s stubborn but gentle and hard as nails,
As he deals with all that...

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Where I grew up there’s a unique creature
Has Horns everywhere, a unique feature
Six inches in length and dinosaur like
The horns on his head stick out...

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The best fire wood to be found
If dried it cannot be split
Extremely dense and heavy
And as hard as nails

Leathery evergreen leaves
Red bark peeling from the...

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Azizam
I await the fall
The cool air
To seduce my skin
I await the kiss
Of your fall
The tumbling
Of your heart
Azizam
The world is tumbling down
Crumbling upon the ground
Like castles...

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Revisiting the past
Delving into the heart
Digging hard with nails scratching 
With banging fists and lips biting 
With locked jaws and questionable laws 
With bruised egos...

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I am a teacher

Eager beaver

Full of beans

I build bridges

And burn the candle at both ends

I am a teacher

Cap in hand

Full of the milk of human...

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“Elawishus Barker is the meanest man in Georgia. Absolutely cold as ice…and hard as nails t’ boot.
I’ve actually never met the guy, but - based...

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She's just an old lady with a slow walk
There's a little pain where a smile once was
She's not chatty, just a little small talk
Her left...

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10/3/17
IMAGE ME A POEM

In the night, dark and cold,
There gallops a stallion, strong and bold.

His beautiful coat, brown and sleek,
Slim and shiny, like polished teak.

His...

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