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Hard Up Poems - Poems about Hard Up

But what’s a poor boy to do
... Since the day I first saw light I was so tough and hard up for the fight I learnt the hard way as my rule The school of hard knocks made me no-ones fool But whats a poor boy to do Up in th......

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Categories: hard up, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
MOTHER SAID
... Never go out on a stomach that’s empty, Was one of my mother’s foibles. If it’s only a salad sandwich, You’ll ward off possible problems. And always drink plenty of liquid Or you’ll find you’l......

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Categories: hard up, mother,
Form: Verse



Oh, those winter blues
...I could hear the cold winds blow from the corner of my room, I'm wrapped up in by bedding and I feel like a cocoon. I've been here for days on end, shivering from the wet damp; ......

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Categories: hard up, life, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cost of Living
...The cost of living is continuing to rise With hard up family's there is no surprise. To admit you are struggling you might feel shame Unable to survive you hide the pain To pay your bills is ......

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Categories: hard up, house,
Form: Free verse
Falling Free
...Am I in control? Or is this force beyond my grasp? Things slipped out of my hold But didn't expect to fall so fast Wanted to let it go But the problems fell with me, too Wanna stay in the sky ......

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Categories: hard up, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Abc With Mummy - a Woman Scorned
...A is for Ant (and for ass, your dad is an example of an ass) B is for Bee (and for b*stard, your dad is a bast*rd - first class) C is for Chicken (and for a word I don’t want to say - but see K) ......

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Categories: hard up, anger, mom, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Size Does Matter
...she preferred a bulge the one inside my wallet now i’m just ~ hard up By David Kavanagh......

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Categories: hard up, allusion, humor, life,
Form: Senryu
New Year Poems I
...New Year Poetry Auld Lange Syne by Robert Burns translation by Michael R. Burch Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, And days f......

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Categories: hard up, birth, celebration, change, firework,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out of Ideas
...Out of ideas? I laugh in my soup. Vegetables, taters, peas, corn. Out of ideas? I drink my coffee. Pancakes, waffles, new ideas are born. Out of ideas? My muse smacks me hard up the side of my head......

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Categories: hard up, imagination, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Cash
...The gambler was hard-up for cash Didn’t get it, but instead got a rash He worked up an inch His stomach started to twitch Money hungry, the man felled and crash......

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Categories: hard up, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
Cowgirl
...Rhoda Maverick loved Tom Mix And cowboys keen on roping tricks So hard-up men Found her their hen And all her chicks were little prix......

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Categories: hard up, words,
Form: Limerick
4 Year Old Adults
...They want to reach out through Freedom Of Speech, contaminated minds reject and preach. So many only see it their own way, not on the whole, individual points of view, they say away, like dete......

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Categories: hard up, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
The Bees Knees
...The Bees Knees She was the buzz between the feathery blossom The flutter midst buds and petals in cloak of fur Rapturously delving the gene laden pollen To trap the powdery wonder upon her hair......

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Categories: hard up, insect,
Form: Blank verse
We Had Been Hard Up
...We Had Been Hard Up We had been hard up living in a tent, And for all of our sins we did repent; Garden planted; Chants canted; We are glad God gave us His consent. Jim Horn For Andrea, ......

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Categories: hard up, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
A Man Is Born, Part I
...I. Luther Deits was a good friend of whiskey, not fond of cutting herds or pushing plows, a young buck full of juice, barely twenty, he lived only for the thrill of the now. His home, a town i......

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Categories: hard up, change, character, growth, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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