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Get Up Off The Mat
Get Up Off The Mat Poems - Poems about Get Up Off The Mat
The Great Oppression
...This the great oppression, only the strong survive/ Never let them press you, stay strong or die/ Make them respect you, you gotta get it how you live/ In the field, it's real, so I can't chill/ ......
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Michael Fulkerson
Categories:
get up off the mat,
anxiety, character, conflict, courage,
Form:
Free verse
BRINGING IN A SOFA
... On the floor, off the mat We all sat, slept & ate Flooring of mud but broom laid Cream of cow dung applied. Life was simple though not smooth Bit of course with pins and needles ......
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Anuradha Sowmyanarayanan
Categories:
get up off the mat,
life, success,
Form:
Free verse
The Fight of a Lifetime
...It would be fifteen rounds against the longtime champ, But I was an upcomer, ready to make my stamp. With an undefeated record, he was well renowned. I was in good shape, with low weight, ......
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David Crandall
Categories:
get up off the mat,
age, sports, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Mouser the Distillery Cat
.... Mouser. The distillery cat was flat on his back He’d had too much to drink. The silly moggy his mind was foggy He could hardly think. It was thee day he was on his way His time was really......
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Ned Flanders
Categories:
get up off the mat,
animalscat, cat, time,
Form:
Rhyme