Cut Your Teeth Poems - Poems about Cut Your Teeth

...I came from the cracked earth, where sirens sang lullabies and gunshots kept rhythm like a mother’s heart— fast, then gone. We ate what we stole, slept where we fell, and called rusted chain......

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...And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down No fictive dream deludes for now, so her heart bleeds And weeping spirit no comfort dares to arrive She that loved him took care of his ear......

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...Cut your teeth at first On fruit and salad Don't try begin with red meat Take baby steps Walk before you can run Don't pretend or feign to know You have any idea what other people t......

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...It was an island of piety out of place in Port Adelaide’s working class sea of pubs. Off the main road, St Mary’s was a refuge for the Catholic faithful and a few wino’s pretending a prayer ......

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...Shobana sings at the Mandapam in Chennai ... which I did not see After all, my pilgrimage was only once, in 2003 He had cut his teeth in 1893 with apartheid & segregation In Africa, where today it......

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...BROTHER I HEARD YOUR WAR CRY Yes my old friend I had your challenge I couldn’t help but laugh it off…. You who just cut your teeth yesterday You I saw soil your under gametes You I saw take yo......

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...True noises from outside deep in the night of winter, snow geese cadence call too shake some sense of me. Summon me to remember who I am, Bid me to evoke who I was. I see fire in the valle......

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...Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way Let your wheels skid by letting loose grip on wheel ......

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...Man's last leg is hue and cry! When baby he is man is the honey pot; His forebears love him for what he will be. When man is man he is a toast of all; The World craves for him for what he can do.......

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...Cut your teeth on a sure thing and they’ll all fall out, too soon. The gambler loses a lifetime, while the diligent will succeed. The only certainty; the sure thing, in this life, si de......

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...You’ve got a key in your pocket, black salt in your hair. Smoke in your whispers, and rust in your stare. Tears run down your cheeks and your gaze goes cold. Face facts lil’ mama, we’re all ganna’ g......

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...BITTER LEMON. I want to cut my teeth On the rind of a bitter lemon And feel the veins of wintry night Caught in eddies on the frozen lips. To follow the paths of the sea Or to the creatures of ......

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...I creep in at night, When all lights are out. While you peacefully sleep, When no-one’s about. No stars in the sky, No fresh baked bread. Only you, Me, And my breath on your......

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...Wander and meet in wicked wind They cut their teeth on broken nails Walk across golden pond in sin Trail of tears on glacial lake pales In comparison to his frozen heart The heart of the damned cha......

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...My dreams are cutting into my fun time Fiddle faddle, diddle diddle Should have something worthwhile But eyes just ache And my heart pounds like a thing that pounds I wish I was dead Or high an......

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