Best Hard Man Poems

...Here I stand alone upon this stage,
You prance and mock, a beast to test,
This night, ordeal, more like all the rest.
Your burnt out eyes; defunct yet full of rage.

I use your words, as fodder ......

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...I wish I was a tough guy
The kind you meet in books 
Made of rock hard muscle
With rugged hard man looks
A Raymond Chandler hero 
Exuding macho charm
A super spy or villain
With a beauty on ea......

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...Mae West
one of Brooklyn's best
her quotes were more witty than kind
like "A hard man is good to find"

contest: For Andrea's  - Seeking a fresh crop of clerihews -
9-27-2012

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...In the iron grey days of the 1950's change changed everything, good or bad,
Tom, who was the local coal-man for this area, a hard man of steel but kind,
He tried to speak but no words would come, he ......

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...The poems have been flowing like a river

Must take advantage while it happens

I think they say, “while the iron is hot!”



Other very familiar idioms like...

“A bigger bang for ......

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...all teeth and eyes
the road-man wears diesel and grease
he wears leather and jeans
his is the hard life
but he lives it like no other
the road-man is a mouthful of bullets and bones
and his eye......

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...Johnney Ringo a hard man a cowboy a clute
Leads Stallion and mares to the valley and bute
This white rearing beauty looms large on two legs
Call on a price who sells or who begs

Sweep down to the ra......

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...Pop was quite a poet,
though his bio wouldn’t show it,
with the exception of this little poem
which I really do feel I owe him.

He was happiest working in the wood,
and did so when ere he coul......

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...I once was a farmer
I worked the land
I reaped the corn 
With a scythe in my hand

I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed 
I grew my crops
My family to feed

One day hot and thirsty 
With th......

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...A hard man
That is why women
Do not flock to him......

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...Hard man,

sad man in disguise

trying to cover up

what’s behind the lies

look into his face

see behind the eyes

the pain and the hurt

he’s suffered in his life.

Hard man

tri......

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...For example a Dachshund dog was thrown 5 floors to his death
The owner photographed this and posted it online
His dog looked like he was sleeping but was dead

I tracked the Dachshund Dog’s Kille......

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...Scent of a memory

16/05/2015

The old man ambled by, a scent caught my eye.

A memory long dispatched, elicited and slowly hatched.

My Pops lounge room, musty never seen a broom.

His kin......

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...The words of a hard man sitting alone
Lighting fire beneath the hand, beneath him
It’s not his way, to be accident prone

Can he be caught, by the other one slim
Those that bite. can seem to mul......

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...ACE CANNONS' CANON 

Through the morning, shimmering with colors that wavering, fade
from a desert where heat is a hue, and history's due
cactus and trees, knotted and sparse, a portrait some mad......

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