Best Roughshod Poems

And as the hills yonder 
Turned red from sunset rays
As darkness engulfed the valley
And the sweet sounds of birds
Rent the cool evening air

Our cows and sheep and goats 
Hurried down the footpath
As though they were late
To a gathering of clans
Or to one of their own

And...

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Wrathful tears ripen shame
and sows conscience-stricken seeds of self-loathing.
Scourged by the storm’s desolate dirge
this flimsy canopy offers no protection
as the wind-driven rain rides roughshod over me.


Susan Ashley 
April 9, 2019...

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"Angel Through the Wires"



Are you an Angel?
Speaking 
through my words?
You stand by me always,
as I walk roughshod 
through this world.

I see your reflection 
in my eyes
Mirror Silent 
Revolution Image, 
but you are not here,
You are in my dreams, 
a cameo appearance 
every now and again,
a...

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In my youth, I am sure I was slim,
a figure both modest and trim;
but now I am old, I'm frequently told
my features are wrinkled and grim. 

As a girl, I was agile and quick,
my dancing was stylish and slick;
but sadly it’s gone, I just hobble...

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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One

Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the veritable champion of the proletariat and the downtrodden masses, and who counted among his...

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Livin' won't mean a dang thing!
If killin' is how ya survive!
Killin' does dishonor bring!
with being wanted dead or alive!

Every lawman knows yer name!
tellin' everybody what ya did!
the fastest draw gets the fame!
yet, on the run stayin' hid!

There's alway an hombre packin' tough!
a rowdy drunk or...

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A northeaster snow storm is rampaging air
A roughshod young warrior, launching ice as a spear 
Without any warning, he comes from nowhere
bending trees into sickles, while he conquers with fear

Plowing up roads with a gust and a till
Burying leaves along the gutters and streets
Furrowing rows...

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repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. 
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric. 
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts. 
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant reign. 
ratified rattlebrained rules roil reductionism.
rumbustious rapscallions rollick; render ruinous...

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There is a brush of wind sweeping roughshod over the shore
Festering foamy white caps on the crest of the waves
Disembodied voices I think I've heard before
Are rising from the mist of the liquid haze

White-feathered angel wings spreading wide and low
Swoop down below the angry crimson...

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Thy birth on January 13th – 
   cervical contractions 
   would not abate
the pesky master (papa), strove 
   to synchronize seminal bait

thence, forty-two weeks 
   after ma parents did pro create 
imminent lviii plus years ago to...

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She slow- slips feet in poems

Tears trickle from sky- high eyes
down earth's cheeks to find the stream

I love your long water veils
abseiling splashed self down, 
streaming gently life's sheer sails

Father shows me a true source- 
Tugela springs from plateau
spread out with windblown scrub.
Symbiosis exists here.

Vague...

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Hark! He is the most high and holy God
Ave!  the humble young  Christ, hung roughshod
Look at his hands – holding  spiritual  health
Listen to his heart – host of common wealth
Eureka!  how we long for - Haven of hope 
Lo! ...

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"The Very Best Is Yet To Come"


Though ominous be the clouds that
     show unexpectedly to darken
Though roughshod be the road
     that daily one does trod
Though difficult be the moments
     that try one's patience
Though...

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THE   BRAVE   MAN   STANDS    -     THE   COWARD   LEAVES.

I  stood  watching  the first snowflake’s  battle action : 
First of a horde – a  first-flake...

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A gaunt face
       wizened by time,
           portrays
              a no-nonsense
       ...

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