Calloused Poems - Poems about Calloused

...I've toiled in shadows, my hands calloused and worn, Laboring silently, my spirit tattered and torn. For the promise of pennies, I've bent my back low, While the masters of plenty reap what I sow.......Read the rest...

...A week was forever not to see those beautiful pale eyes. How I missed your gorgeous wide smile; I thought they were stolen from mine. As exciting as first dates, Now I got to see you once mor......Read the rest...

...wooden spoon worn smooth calloused hands’ enduring tool sleeps in a drawer......Read the rest...

...I'm not amused It's overload My brain is fused At 4am I miss my friend Insomnia will never end The poet's lot: a search for meaning Unpolished thoughts Need feathers preening The clutt......Read the rest...

...Meandering through the cracks of a Baltic horizon stripped of its lunary luminance, streams of darkness slither their way through the calloused sieve of a monochromatic midnight sunrise tha......Read the rest...

...From fields of gold to the city's cold embrace, He came a farmer, with a weathered face. Dusty clothes, hands calloused and worn, Carrying the burden of harvest born. But steel and glass denied......Read the rest...

...Gazing at the transgressive, monotonous (yet awake) mundane- burning cheeks, bottles empty of holy blood accompanied by slurred atonement lost in soft wind persevered; untainted discovery by fooli......Read the rest...

...It was not truly blank For it bore the unseen burden of promise For it held the texture Of a calloused hand The tone of tinted toil The excellence Of a gifted craftsman Inscribe on a blank can......Read the rest...

...The Revenant pt. 1 - A Blighted Vale (pt 2/2) Amongst the dead and dying trees, A Stygian crypt of crumbling stone A doorway opened, not with man-made keys, But forgotten tongue......Read the rest...

...Calloused canvas, etched with sun and rain, A map of toil, where muscles speak their pain. No crown adorns it, nor scepter's gilded shine, But in its grip, a legacy entwines. Not pharaohs' monu......Read the rest...

...Not in a palace built of gold, nor a throne of ivory carved, But in the heart where embers glow, excellence is truly served. It blooms not in the sterile gleam of trophies won on marble floors, Bu......Read the rest...

... Tumult and chaos reign around us Gushes of water spill from shattered roofs unto bodies Water does not heal the wounds of besieged people suffering ln the distance music of two misplaced cellos ......Read the rest...

...Words like daggers Straight through my heart Shredding my soul Tearing apart My dreams, in whole But saving a piece A tantalizing hope Never within the reach Of my calloused hands Barrica......Read the rest...

...Dana is pretty like Cinderella A busybody who knows nothing said. But I saw Dana, and she was clean Cinderella was always cinder full, right? She reminds me of her, the speaker said. I tried t......Read the rest...

...* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break "For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of man will be." - Matthew 24:38-40 I see them, though the......Read the rest...