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Premium Member SPECIAL AGENT GONE BAD
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE I ALWAYS KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF WITH ALAN I MEAN AFTER ALL HE WAS ACTUALLY WORKING FOR WANNABE MOBSTERS CIRO GARGANO WHO TRULY BELIEVED...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, america, anxiety, military, thank you, write,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A WOMAN'S HIGHEST CALLING-
What is the highest calling of a woman
AGAPE LOVE IS GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR US AND THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WE CAN HAVE FOR EACH OTHER IN JESUS
Is Motherhood a Woman’s Highest Calling

To call, to come...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, spoken word,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Primary Lesson - End of Class
Here is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is more an older Anakin,
Who fooled the Nation even though he's...

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© Mick Free  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, america, patriotic, political, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 8
the future cannot be but a computation
and that's where all the problems start
one after another all at once
how are your levels of satisfaction arrived at
personally generally universally consistently
how good is your math
how good can your...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Egyptian Revolution
     The revolution
Everybody has a limit , a time when enough is enough
You must fight for what you believe in ,even when the going gets tough
In the cold 25th in the...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, adventure, hope, inspirational, day, lost, day, lost,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Challenges
CHALLENGES

By Edmund Siejka

He faced a challenge 
That forced him to use all his abilities
But doubt clouded his judgement
Caution gave way to uncertainty.
Needing help
He recalled these words:

1.	Believe in yourself
       ...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, life,
Form: Narrative
Unique Horn
Carpe Diem, seize the day
Live by the rules of the game you play
The world is your oyster, enjoy the ride
When the going gets tough, look on the bright side
Silence is golden, take that to the...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, inspirational, introspection, life, on writing and words,
Form: Couplet
To Thanksgiving
taken away by the flight 
by the primacy of our own life process
we are all flies craving for honey
or we are pebbles— 
washed but never get cleansed! 

let us not be distracted by 
the disappointment...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, courage, forgiveness, love, nature, peace, relationship, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Education Is the Key
They say education is the key. 
A key that can open all closed doors. 
A sharpener to our minds. 
Provider of brighter life and expectations.
	it's like a shining lamp in a dark world
	even better than...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, appreciation, celebration, desire, destiny, education, encouraging, places,
Form: Light Verse
Passion and Desire
Passion or Desire is not pure potential seeking manifestation.
It is the manifestation of Life's flaming sword, runic capital letter of the sacred word. 
A spark that has been sparked,  
the flint that struck it's...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Against All Odds
Despite all limitations, I want to make a name for my self, even in Hollywood, California.
Despite all of the odds stacked against me, I'm 100% living proof. Every time I tend to
take a challenge like...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, faith, inspirational, uplifting, business, life,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Sixty-Four Rulers of the Yi Jing
The Sixty-Four Rulers of the Yi Jing

When chieftains uncrowned yearn to be enthroned
They either give their daughters to princes
Or invite other chieftains and have them poisoned
Some choose the war-path without hindrances

And lose their lives wives...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, age, future, leadership, life, peace, world,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Little Things
It's always the little things 
                 That mean the most to people
       ...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, appreciation, humanity, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Lyric
The New Me
Today I feel like a new me arisen from old rubble
Of all the evil and abuse I underwent;
The fast lanes of life's changed me,
I am living life anew, going through the motions
	
When the going got...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
When the Going Gets Tough...(2003)
The glass that breaks, by none, my friend
Can ever be joined again
For, cracks remain, as scars persist
And these, no one can mend.

The waves that rise, cannot be tamed
By a child's desperate fist
Or the glare of...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, angstnight, prayer, me, night, smile,
Form: Verse
No Further Spread of Needless Fear
Sprout out the doubt
In your social, business, romantic or spiritual life aspects
Buttressed by the clout
Normally evident in several respects 

With undaunted determination to improve prospects for success
As the going gets tough
To diminish access
To debacles in...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, poems,
Form: Free verse
Tiny Tidbits of Nonsense Part 2
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy.  But he was wearing a skirt.

I bought a roll of Saran Wrap, then realized I didn't have a Saran to wrap.

My dentist told me to see a...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, funny, imagination, introspection, me, me,
Form: Burlesque
Tolerance
In this day and age that most of the things
tend to cause many of us to be haughty and callous. 
That we cannot seem to bear with those things
because we simply do not like them.

This...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, change, world,
Form: Prose Poetry
What Does a Man Do By Kenny Davis
What Does A Man Do? By Kenny Davis

What does a man do, when he is at his width’s end?
When the trials and tribulations of this world wonder how far we will bend.

What does a man...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, confusion, faith, hope, imagination, inspirational, life, peace,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Russian Roulette of the Heart
Load the chamber with your love bullet and spin the cylinder and aim the muzzle at my heart see if when you pull the trigger if everything shatters apart
Every time you fall in love, you’re...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, death, fear, heartbreak, hurt, love hurts, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Read My Poems Will Not Wait
Read My Poems Will Not Wait

Put poems in church newsletter, I certainly do dare
All poets say mine have become beyond compare
Can constantly forever hold you in suspense
Give in by reading poems and be one that...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, humorous, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Faith Hope and Love
You’ve got to have faith, hope and love
This wonderful Glorious stuff
Faith, hope and love
When push comes to shove




Faith in your life when you need to fight
Love in your heart to make things right
Hope in your...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, faith, hope, love,
Form: Lyric
Footboard Traveller
People think I am a freak

Wondering what chaos I shall wreak

Seeing me they want to gag

Just cos I am dressed in rag

Shamelessly begging for alms

Cupping my blistered palms

Destitute, I have no home

Throughout the day I...

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© Meghana S  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, lifeprayer, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Another Tiny Tad of Tom's Terrrible Tidbits
What Caesar really said; "I came, I saw, I ran like hell..."
(Speaking of Caesar, I think he's famous for going to Las Vegas and making 
salad.)
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck,...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the going gets tough, confusion, education, inspirational, on writing and words,
Form: Burlesque
When the Going Gets Tough.....
Yes I've been through the mill
but stronger for it...happier too.
Though I forgave... but cant forget
I remember the lessons I learned so well.

Think of others before yourself.
Give to others from the little you have
 share a...

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Categories: when the going gets tough, faith, day, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs