Best Hard Pressed Poems

A land unto its own as old as dirt
Condemned by voguish northern state of mind
This realm you'd be hard-pressed to disconcert
Though his'try would prefer it...

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I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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ONLY HEALTH AND JOY

I believe You Father God is in control.

Tell me more...
I want to know what else You want me to do;
I want to...

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Because of eyes as warm as honey, I
was melting, but the love I first believed
was shown me in his gaze was but a lie.
He uttered...

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 Nice and slow, I feel you coming on
Persistent, messy, though fragile
You are over me, under me, beyond me
Crushing my lingering patience,
So that it no...

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The Shifting sands
Kingdoms of Dunes
Desolate sands
No life. Low tide
Landfalls now twixt mud and sand
And then the seals appear
Their sad calls staying in my memory

I walk...

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Axe the old Don, a trump peter n piper
   of incredulous hellish crud - be gone
ha air brushed pompous ****
   Sunkist...

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South Of The (United States) Border...
(Reigns A Welter Of Disorder)

Caravans comprising multitudinous
     peoples plodded a steady course
analogous to iron filings drawn...

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Yeah, I know,
It's "My Problem"...
No sweat to you...
Even though I might beg,
For help or advise what to do...

I'm cut off from the internet...
My last human...

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I can watch the neighbors from my front porch 
My favorite is a child of barely three
With curls gracing her head in a shining glow...

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Timothy, name of Greek origin, meaning 'God’s honor'
Intellectual, spiritual and profoundly connected with nature
Man of strength and simplicity who deeply feels compassion
On his lifelong journey...

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Straight-up the arrows,
hard-pressed the doors
to all the rooms
in all the houses
on Clark Street.

Father Coughlin brought blessings
thinned with broth
from potato peelings.

Women poured tears
into fringed shawls,
and buried...

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Of all the treasures that life can lay at our feet
True friendships stand among the very best
To support you when living hands you defeat

Of your...

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Even Honest Abe Lincoln admitted himself that he wasn't all that pretty,

   But you'll be hard-pressed to find a president who was more...

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Les Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan

(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she...

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