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Best Rough Around The Edges Poems

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Makeover - Repost
You say I need a makeover,
that I'm not the man I could be
You say I'm too rough around the edges,
a little smoothing out would polish...

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Categories: rough around the edges, brother, dedication, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



My Little Green Leaf
It was the kind of day I had always dreamed of,
    a source of energy was emitted by the sun,
  ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rough around the edges, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Quatrain
You can’t please people
My words might sound to some strange, or my rhymes maybe rough around the edges 

I only write what I can arrange, I don’t need...

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Categories: rough around the edges, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Shunned
Breaking down in the heart and mind.
With all regrets that are truly not kind.
Shocked at people are, so painful to see.
Abused with hated and ecstasy.
Violated...

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Categories: rough around the edges, confusion, dark, depression, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Broken Man
No excuses needed 
Nor apologizes 
This is who I am as a person, a human being and the man that I intend to be. Take...

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Categories: rough around the edges, courage, emotions, faith, me,
Form: Lyric



Bitterness
Bitterness is a black pool of bad poison
And when it liquifies it saturates once warm and loving hearts
Leaving them ice cold,ill and frozen
Whoever it has...

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Categories: rough around the edges, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
Makeover
You say I need a makeover,
that I'm not the man I could be
You say I'm too rough around the edges,
a little smoothing out would polish...

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Categories: rough around the edges, black african american, brother,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Old Pawn Shop Guitar
In a window down on Main St.
Sits an old pawn shop guitar
Its strings are like a slinky
And its finish has been marred

But when a dreamer...

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Categories: rough around the edges, appreciation, dream, guitar, memory,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Have You Ever Done This Type of Work Before - For Contest
“Have you ever done this type of work before”?

	“they’re sheep – I’m a sheep dog – are you serious?”

“Are you aware we have a dress...

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Categories: rough around the edges, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Who Am I Lord
Who am I Lord
That you are mindful of me
A tiny drop of rain
In a wide expansive sea
What could I ever give
That you could ever need
Who...

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Categories: rough around the edges, god, introspection, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Tomboy
TomBoy, your reading about one. Most people are confused, so in a way, I'm here to explain
because i truly fit the definition.

Tomboy's are girls, that...

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Categories: rough around the edges, funny
Form: Free verse
Gender Before Race
They say you can not be both black and female,  
you can only be one and dare you ever choose to be both, 
what...

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Categories: rough around the edges, conflict, discrimination, race,
Form: Classicism
Cowboys Can'T Be Pigeonholed
So you think you know just how us cowboys should behave
But listening to your jawing, I hear Chisholm spinning in his grave
A Cowboy who don’t...

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Categories: rough around the edges, cowboy-western, funny, life, old,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Pondering On Women
I wonder why it is that,
Some women work so hard to be chased
That they forget to flirt
With the idea of being caught and embraced.
I wonder...

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Categories: rough around the edges, relationship, women,
Form: Rhyme
Lo, How a Rose E'Er Blooming
With every rose there are thorns: fear, pain, jealousy, anxiety, sadness, and grief

It takes time, love, and patience to grow a beautiful rose bush

But it's...

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Categories: rough around the edges, abuse, depression, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs