Best Pugilist Poems

PINOCCHIO WAS PUGILIST
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A pugilist and a whistle-blower  

I never thought much of boxing 
but I liked Muhammad Ali`s forthrightness 
steadfast stood against the storm of
hatred and...

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Pugilist,
(Pick Your Arena Then Make Your Opponent Earn It)
Written: by Tom Wright
2/9/2018

At times in life I’ve exceeded my expectations,*
Often being driven by my earlier laid...

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"The Ways"     
Failure, my grey haired mentor 
Toil with me once more 
Send me into bowels of competition 
Content with loss,...

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Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a...

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I flow like the river and fall like a spring
Dazzling many like a pugilist on a ring,
Interact with many people and classes,
Making young men to...

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and I remember the pilled-doctor 
rolling by, rolling by, and the beery
priest, in the sky, in the sky

and the woman in the taxi, oh my,
oh...

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Late hours
Rainy winds wet;
Igloo feeling

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Dance deep strokes
Chinese pugilist;
Savvy moves

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Darkness falls deep
Applause of insects;
Stars twinkle

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Karaoke bars
Pretty sexy faces;
Booze entice

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Midnight club fest
Tipsy following;
Taxicab queue

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Eatery junction
Motley congregation;
Hot humid...

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Most everything written
(and learned ya in school)
     Yukon coon sitter, (and bet
     your bottom dollar) tibia bunch
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Thunder and lightning proclaimed his birth,
On a stormy day in Louisville Kentucky.
His young life spent in cloudy weather of Louisville,
Training at a farm near Reading,...

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A selfish act, a separation; departing from this life at ones own hand seemingly without
care made everything go away and I now I’m left confused....

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Cages of Angels



Have you hungered enough
As you lay bereft of sleep
The changing seconds in dead red digital light
Stare you blankly into thoughts
Seeping from your pours...

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Beginnings Know Only Beginnings
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Punch to the left, punch to the right,
Hold nothing back, in a boxing match,
Show him no pity, hit him real tight,
One in the tummy, punch...

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Another Senseless Killing...

IOWA CITY, Iowa
     (killingly, jarringly inexplicable,
     horribly, gruesomely, and forlornly),
     the...

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