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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Winter wears a gown of crystal and lace
            woven with ice and snow;
and life...

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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...

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