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Grindstone Poems - Poems about Grindstone

Premium Member The 'Whirlwind'
... Despairing of lightening her mood ten children her burden her life spent pushing and tugging at a grindstone of darkest despair ......

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Categories: grindstone, change, dance, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Body Language
... Putting my best foot forward shoulder to the wheel nose to the grindstone my Achilles heel while sticking my neck out I soon found as with my eye on the ball ear to the gro......

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Categories: grindstone, age, body, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Found the Courage to Speak
...No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds for I couldn't lick the festering gashes clean. Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep, fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene. No mere prick or scrat......

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Categories: grindstone, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading... (on a rainy May thirteenth two thousand and twenty five) as a balm against ennui becoming engrossed, immersed, and lost in space of orrery reg......

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Categories: grindstone, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emotional Shrapnel
...Lurid looks have been thrown at me Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart Why do some insist on acting beastly waging war in attempts to tear me apart? How long can I go on pretending I'm not in......

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Categories: grindstone, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden......

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Categories: grindstone, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
back to it
...Back to black coffee back to ryo cigarettes back to the grindstone the wheel the rat race to nowhere back to it back on track back to basics the spinning wheels the hampster cage the inv......

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Categories: grindstone, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Story
...I'm just writing my story Leaving out all the glory I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen Would you read......

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Categories: grindstone, angst, deep, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
...By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright offers his unsolicited tidbits as scene courtesy the following virtually staged philosophical insight. Arch back like......

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Categories: grindstone, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Crows Nest
...3/10/24 Across the whole stretch In all directions it pulls and tempts Still the same old debts Continual gold theft Another night woke up in a cold sweat Full of stress Sinking below into......

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Categories: grindstone, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member sedulous
...pull out all the stops keep your shoulder to the wheel go the extra mile bust your chops sweat blood work your fingers to the bone bend over backwards go to great lengths put ......

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Categories: grindstone, analogy,
Form: Senryu
After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race... Planet earth (the Mother of all) breathed a collective and palpable sigh of relief, and I too deeply exhaled, ......

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Categories: grindstone, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Though no political pundit, nevertheless
...Though no political pundit, nevertheless... I trumpet the withdrawal of democratic contender from out the presidential race. Breaking headline news story courtesy rumor monger premieres show......

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Categories: grindstone, america, anxiety, blue, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grindstone
...A red-rimmed sun of summer, of the sweat of the workers, the salt of their brows. Shoulders to the grindstone, the strength of sinew and muscle, hours of their labors. The Lord of their lives ......

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Categories: grindstone, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Among the Angels
...When our grindstone comes into blossom, A hen's curse might kill an eagle. Maybe when hell freezes over, The snake that I see will bite. I am mortal but among the Angels Left but never forgott......

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Categories: grindstone, blessing, courage, encouraging, power,
Form: Free verse

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