Best Hard Put Poems

Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet


Worn down landscape
Ridden hard and put up wet over eons of time.
Buttes interspersed with ravines and wadis,
Vast irregular symmetry.

Clumps of purple...

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Trying Moments
Written: by Miracle Man
1-14-2020

Within each day exists time that is bland,
but I deal with these moments and move ahead.
Realizing that my time rests in...

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How does on measure the worth of a man?
How does one try to surmise it?
Can a man be appraised like a parcel of land?
There are...

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Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...

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Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake: Part Thirty-Six

Hardly had the CS drawn tight the net round the mosque and lake
The red phone on his desk at...

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K167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his...

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SWAK

Pucker up, my fine man, 
trim that mustache, I have a plan.
I'll write you a letter in cursive, long hand,
sealed in a kiss [from a...

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All throughout I shooed the crooked thoughts away. 
For a doll such as her Dolly, with her unrealistic
Curves and flawless skin, would be hard put...

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Dazed n confused
Not knowing how to help if its not spoken of too
Expressing is like a suggestion of how deep its roots
Dazed n confused 
Not...

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Parlous decisions
Have been made
Regarding our plants
Wrong hands played 

China now top nation
In terms of output
By manufacturing jobs
Leads USA hard put

Where do our parts
Come from for...

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Haughty
naughty

dirty 
Murty,

small nose,
fat toes.

Girl lip
did whip

put down
cause frown.

Thought smart
dart dirt

insert
to hurt

bigfoot
hard put.

Frogmouth
big drouth

cake soap
for dope.


3/1/2018

Poetry Contest:PUT YOUR FOOTLE OUT YOUR MOUTH 
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The edge of a knife
Between hell and heaven
Rode hard, put up wet
At age twenty-seven
‘Twas never in doubt 
Inspired, these artists
But those who fly high
Oft crash...

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Autumn's crisp, dry leaves crackle underfoot,
adding a crunch to the grandeur of Fall.
Squirrels scamper about as if hard-put
to gather nuts and then bury them all.

Nature...

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