Best Hardened Poems

When I think of what to write
often the ocean comes to mind
Endless sea of pretty blue
and stretched out horizon lines,
impossibly flat

Yet when I actually arrive
it isn't the sea that my eyes
take a liking too
Rather it's just below the waves
my mind does go...

...to the little trinkets
beside...

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LOVE HARDENED
I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that looks,
Outbrave the heart most daring of crooks,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Mock lions when they roar for a prey that stare,
In as much as I proclaim all these all through,
I won't bite more than I...

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Love is for the foolish
Ha, why did I say that?
If you are not foolish
you would not fall in love
You would not take a chance
Where else would you know 
that you would jump in before you know everything?
Love is for the hardy
It makes you hardened
Hardened for...

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Hardened Thoughts


To those who tell me what I can and can’t
I have no words to sway their mindless curse
nor would they listen should my voice unveil
the emptiness of lips echoless purse,
aspiring to restrain youths sudden joy
assuage depleted chests with stolen gold
sit idly in the chair...

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Your thought not to hate
But why I hate you so much
Lord please come into my heart 
My heart has hardened
She left me 
Left me with the boys
I loved her
But she loved the bottle
Smoke
Party 
Streets 
Friends
She was unloyal 
Had my questions DNA
But my genes run deep
Lord...

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Cruising the hardened streets,
Inhaling the bouquet
Of lively, wicked San Francisco,
Where chicks in heels
Somehow reveal,
An eloquent, famished soul,
Tending to knights,
On shiny pretty nights,
Cloaked in their fabulous
Gaberdine impressions,
Longing to seek acceptance
From ravenous forces,
Among the supple horde,
With few examples,
Ones rich in forsaken noble urges,
Change the world,
By simple stroking,
New...

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I HURT

I must be curt
and declare that I hurt
I hurt for the man who can't cross the street
without his faithful dog named Pete
and a white cane to signify
why I hurt so much which makes me cry

I stay ever alert
although I hurt
for the little girl with...

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Written October 5, 2015


Souls hardened by the stones from an eternity
of grinding salt in the wounds of this machine
Eyes fixed like a lion hunting for its sub-Saharan prey
Yet glazed
Scanning the tin rooftops and glass coffins that imprison
Wondering if repetition will ever give way...

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Throughout my life the bridges crossed
so many times I’ve loved and lost
as hopes and dreams were used and tossed;
my hardened heart had paid the cost.

I felt as though I couldn’t go on;
a darkness loomed at break of dawn;
my hopes and dreams forever gone;
I felt my...

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Barriers cracked and chipped with age
Once standing firm now tremble in rage.
To regain the solidity once defined
That now lies uncertain, its’ strength resigned....

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Wind weathered dream severed
eyes hollow stare blankly out
rough seas washed away hopes
hardened hearts die
fragile souls cry
hastily built walls
stones tumble 
broken in a blackened sky
masses filter the catacombs
steeple's raise notice
dropping down suddenly...

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Violent and miserable
had more support
than being calm and loveable
In a reality T.V. world
That's global
Love and goodness
are feigning
The future of humankind and community
is just a matter of awakening 
to what's entertaining.

5/1/2018
Kale Brereton...

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Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 83

Darkness darkened atmospheric blue to at most 95? I suggest
At least there is always a clue to a path of light darkness can't arrest 
Sound's symphony can't beat its echo no matter how loud   
So will the sky not...

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There is a sting to winter’s kiss
cold memory reignited
a vision through watery eyes
a mirage of moments blighted

weary tracks of empty snowshoes
thinning lines on crest of hill
swallowed by a cloudless sky
the stinging bite of winter’s chill

crystal tracks of hardened teardrops
frozen on love’s time numbed cheeks
wait in...

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Destroyed cosy inquisitioned in light
    Detective sun floods roof lifted abode
    Harsh ray revelation, shark menace bite
    Adrenaline daggers stab at forbode


    Fireplace safe scaffold coughs in sunken fog
    Flight...

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