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Best Tooth And Nail Poems

Below are the all-time best Tooth And Nail poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tooth and nail poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: tooth and nail, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Cold War
I am winter's nemesis.I fight it tooth and nail.
In my youth it declared a war on me.
When I licked that icy rail.
Winter has many weapons...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tooth and nail, funny, seasonswar, war,
Form: Free verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes
alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with...

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Categories: tooth and nail, child, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rainbows Dreaming of Gray
Scrambling tooth and nail for a patterned fate
I approached the lofty mansion of Learning's Gate.
All cued up for a slip of paper - the one...

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Categories: tooth and nail, allegory, education, freedom, growing
Form: Alliteration
War of the Spirit
They live in mortal sin and shame
Between the lines of old and new
As us the righteous good and few
See infidels who aren't the same
How dare...

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Categories: tooth and nail, art, faith, war
Form: Italian Sonnet



Old Flossy
Old Flossy
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia

It was there on Sharpen station, ....(ranch)
west near Adavale i'd be. 
Back in the early thirties, 
worst drought you'd ever see. 
Five...

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Categories: tooth and nail, adventureold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Geronimo
His name was Mescalero Chiricahua,
Which means The One Who Yawns.
But fate had greater plans for him,
And not much would he yawn.

He was a great leader...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tooth and nail, history,
Form: Rhyme
So Called New Friends Hangers On and What Happens Afterwards
Sorry ,
My friend and confident of days old

Do not fret
Regret is wasted until the cost is met

I still hold you in high regard 
I still...

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Categories: tooth and nail, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Juxtaposed
Give me a piece of your body
before you go.
A tooth, a nail, a curled hair.
A relic, my sadness wants to keep.

By your absence I will...

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Categories: tooth and nail, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Feeling Small
The holidays is often a time of heightened feelings and emotions, whether light or dark. Please take care and try to be kind to yourself...

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Categories: tooth and nail, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Super Bowl Day
Patriots and Seahawks, today head to head
Will wear the helmets; tooth and nail fight the day
University of Phoenix stadium, the beautiful Grand Canyon state
Sweat and...

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© Nirode Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tooth and nail, football,
Form: Free verse
Another Year Has Flown By
Another year has come and gone,
but despite changes, I keep moving on.
I walk a little slower, take time to rest.
still work in the garden, is...

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Categories: tooth and nail, anniversary, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Friend
My Friend by Weston Gregory

I'm glad you are my friend
And you are interesting 
There’re no dull moments
And we can share what each 
Other thinking, 
Though...

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Categories: tooth and nail, beautiful, emotions, friend, friendship,
Form: Verse
Facing Up To Cancer
Thought I’d be fine, I just hadn’t a clue
 You never think it could happen to you.
 Shock and denial raced to the fore
 My...

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Categories: tooth and nail, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Love Story
The heart that has taken on many parts, the lead role in every play,
Stands up on stage too many times, after a while he forgets...

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Categories: tooth and nail, lost love,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs