Long Toughen Poems

Was I ever handsome in God’s eyes? When will I take…take…
When will I take flight?
I’m counting the days to see you fly so gracefully…in the aqua-blue sky
I can’t wait to see you take wing and...

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Gory video games are playing on the television screen…everyone watches excitedly without a flinch of fear…where’s peace when I need it? Where’s love when I want it? Where’s their sanity? Is it replaced with vanity...

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Aaah!.........There you are!
Right on time as usual!
I can always count on you to appear 
and be your obnoxious, irritating,  
obstruction based, challenging self.
You seem a bit larger than the 
last time I encountered you!
Have...

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In a land far away was a family with two boys
The oldest loved sports the youngest only toys.
You should be like your big brother the father would always say
It’s time for you to toughen up...

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I was unfaithful cuz I’m insecure
I was an unfaithful guy that’s for sure
Rough road I chose for myself, true
Toughen up, it’s all on you, bud — said a woman too

In the middle of the road...

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As I write this, I start feeling emotional.
It was something that happened to me that
I will never forget.
  Growing up in the inner city in a part of
NY. It was very tough. You had...

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I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Wrapped up in spring roll pastry and thrown into the fryer. Served on a plate to a child who had nothing else to...

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10/2/12
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Reveled through the world His words are cherished
Many read the peace of His words, yet works be perished
We see the problems without the power to cure it
Lacking the wisdom we need and God’s Holy Spirit
The...

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What the Butler Heard
Extract from a memoir

Lord Illustrious Penge of Lampwicker Hall,
Welcomed local Toffs, to his Name-Dropper ball.
Noses upturned with a touch of conceit,
Hob-Knobbing with gentry and gentleman elite.
Colonel recalled, his luncheon with Churchill,
Discussing backbenchers...

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Friday night will bee our night for dancing


Humble was exhausted after his first week of work.
He had helped people before, here and there,
But today it seemed like on his back he carried the Earth.
His body...

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I guess this had to be said
The root causes for the way
I am kept awake at night 
Summer heat no sleep
My only companions are
Past events and the opinions
My soul resents. 

I guess it had to...

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Crackling like lightning the scent of rainy sundays and sweaty youth enters my lungs like undesired medication

foot steps and introduction of generations and blood lines fills my head like crazy family stories

This time of night...

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No one lied, get it out of your mind
Don't start badmouthing again, putting your foot in your mouth
knocking your teeth around 
You saw the warning signs, you are not a rodeo clown
This isn't new to...

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Take a hammer
Step up to the game
Whack a Mole?
Nope! Whack a Dummy!

You don't like staying home?
To bad, Jack! Put a lock on it!
You spend too much time bumming
Not sticking to essential stores
Your just loitering where
Your...

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I shied away from the sunlight today
I lied to myself and thought it was the truth in a way
I tell myself…as my skin above my blood begin to boil rapidly in anxiety—
Toughen up, it’s all...

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Thank you  
How I keep saying  
Deep gratitude showing  
Generosity, kindness, beauty  
The wonder and joy of giving..
 
What would I consider or measure  
The value of what is received,...

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I know we love to read of beautiful things 
Hear early morning serenades the song bird sings

See buds blooming into roses perfumed
Within majestic sunset's horizons become consumed

There's another place I lived in for a little...

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You played the game of thrones
with devious glee and amoral passion
Nothing was too low for you to stoop to
Your career-cutting teeth were honed
in staid institutions of medieval bastions
Ruling class initiations helped toughen you,
made you understand
the...

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I sit quietly, while I belittle a storm
That’s been brewing for some time. 
It crashes in a drunken rage,
And mellows out into the softening wind 
That is the next day. 
Shortly hereafter
It begins anew. 
A...

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Your only four feet tall and you got a red nose taunts the scarlet witch 
"But I have antlers strong &  sturdy and I can outshine a blood moon anytime "
You can buck your...

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So during these days I done seen 20/40 & 20/100.
Blinded by the sun and forced to hide In the dark,
And as I walk through the dark, I begin to see things I never seen, I...

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The price…the cost of my sins is too much to pay up in one day
I-I have an excuse – 
My heart has been thumping with dismay
I was a new kid, making up several excuses almost...

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Shenanigans is me game
don't ya darn well know,
I'll cover ya in green
from ya head ta ya toe.

Want me ta Irish up tha' coffee for ya?
Get ya all good and drunk,
then I could stuff ya
in me...

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Military Mind 
Military Mind 
 
 
Sexless uniformed surfaces not needing a life inside. Worthless devils fighting 
all the time and hurting all others against the flag or under orders or authorized 
this is the...

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Trees still shade the road
where Gramps and I once rode
in his old green car -- I drove --
on dusky early evenings
in my fifteenth year.
We stopped, as he insisted, at spots
where an armadillo scratched
among the tender...

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