Best Hardiest Poems

It's difficult
for anything to grow
in completely dry ground
hard earth crusted over 
gritty like sandpaper
abrasive
yet crumbling
at mere touch
unable to hold together
or support weight

Yet rain doesn't always
help that much
when it's too hard
or too fast
or not long enough to last

The best help of all
is a gentle sprinkle
now and...

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“With patience and perseverance
We can win the hardiest race.”- By author
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In homage to the waters around the UK and all those who sail them...


Late at night and early dawn
Like clockwork - every day are heard
Those dulcet tones “set fair” to warn
With poetic, most prophetic words
What lies in wait just off our shores?
(Which seem so very...

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she is a blatant caricature in loud technicolor
her presence shouts sexual innuendo  
alluring with dark undertones
her past shadows her every word
like clouds passing over a weak sun
she is the road untold but by the few hardiest of souls
her skin tangles his mind
as she watches...

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Early in the spring the variable winds and rains fall heavy on grass meadows,
Adding a spring in the turf, waking the mosses on stone walls and stone paths
Purple stems of woodspurge hang in the wet winds with its pale green flowers,
Ancient orchards left unattended have...

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At the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating panic attacks

Upon waiting for vehicular repair 
today November 19th, 2019 at:
CJ'S TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
(1405 S Township Line Rd,
Royersford, PA 19468),
yours truly, i.e. mister re: man
registered lamentable paroxysm.

All thru mein kampf inferiority complex
analogous invisible muscular...

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Featured Poem On Poetry Soup W/O 12/10/2018

I'm just a person 
not a tree to be climbed,
Or trampoline to jump on
when so inclined.
A Frisbee I'm not,
to be tossed in the wind,
Or a carrier pigeon
so me, please don't send.
I'm no welcome mat
to be laid at one's door,
To...

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Painted desert skies
blanket the shifting sands.
Hiding secret surprise
in the quiet badlands.

Hardiest creatures known
walk the hot, scorching earth
living under a stone
proving their robust worth.

Scorpions, spiders, snakes
and more native species
survive where the earth bakes
and little relief sees.

Birds, gazelles, and camels
all graze the barren land,
among many mammals
that flourish...

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At the mercy of interminable anticipatory anxiety, hence...

viz hitted courtesy debilitating 
one after another panic attack
analogous being bombarded with flak
worse fate then death
or being tortured on the rack,
no mortal experience compares 
regarding psychological paralysis
just ask me who would even choose
electroconvulsive therapy  
making my body...

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Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...

illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone fits and starts increments
(as a licensed once in a lifetime...

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After Cain murdered Abel, and moved to the east,
evil and violence continued and never ceased.
The devil lives in the hearts of all men.
I must tear everything down and start again.

There is only one man and his family of worth.
I shall spare them to repopulate the...

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Why spoiled misses princess...
never wishes to awaken from pleasant snooze

Appellation (with trailing switchback
and/or additional colorful turns
of phrases) emphasizing assigned
nom de plume "princess goldilocks"
hardly flattering compliment

gently aforementioned sobriquet mocks,
jabs, and stings painful as botox
analogous when the Daily's
(mean neighbors on Lantern Lane
out in vinyl city Audubon Boondocks)
hurled...

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Winter wears a gown of crystal and lace
            woven with ice and snow;
and life shelters in place
when Her frigid winds start to blow.
           ...

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There once was a loud laughing star
Whose laugh was hardiest of har-hars,
She was asked to be quiet
Which she thought was a riot,
So they made her into a headlight for cars....

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Broken glass and shattered dreams
Living a loveless life 
It cuts deep into the soul like a sharpened knife
Blood flows from the wounds of living alone,
wounds that only grow deeper and fester with time
Fight it as best you can,
for living this life can fell the hardiest...

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