Best Harshly Poems

In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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We learn
right from wrong by
the zenith of our youth
but do we learn moral lessons
in the exact way, and
do some learn them
at all?

We show
distaste toward
those whose...

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Oh, how I long, day full of snow
When dawns in gelid breezes moan
And nights anguish in frozen glow,
Now that autumn has left its throne.

As dull...

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Take me beat me and mold me
I am yours to do with what you wish
No matter what you do with me
I am still considered quite...

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Like the pompous pied piper leading the way,
chirping his tune of a dawning new day,
frustrations were championed, oh how we followed,
the ego stuffed shirt of...

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A mile in her shoes
You look at her and wonder
and simply do not at all understand
You would think she would leave him
Before things really get...

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When farthest fields of tall
           grasses are dry and harshly mown. 
Then, wildflowers to the...

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In this wild sea                     ...

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#2 Rumi Quote:
If you are irritated by every rub,
How will your mirror be polished?
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Be not perturbed when life presents hurdles,
Nothing worthwhile comes sans struggle;
Do not...

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I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply...

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"Wolves"



Pulchritude is not a beautiful word.

Dark can be beautiful
when walking with wolves
hearing their stories
sad songs of love lost 
soft they begin 
and then hungry
for the...

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From my breaking point, i try to reframe
All my thoughts seem to sway
My heart hates what my mind became

Every emotion in my body, i try...

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Oh, this impish ill!
this mystic flock of ever-roaming pain;
You now possess fully
my body and my life.
I am at your full attention and mercy;
Do you not...

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‘     ‘ ‘   ‘      ‘   ‘’’’’’’

Angular hips now more round than grapes
grieving...

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Some things I thought would never change - 
it would always be "us three",
I try so hard to understand 
why that wasn't meant to be.
The...

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