Roughed Poems - Poems about Roughed

...In the middle ages these roughed and scuffed decades between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin I earned the right to wear sapphires and bur......

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...You thought his woman weren’t half-bad, cared not that he was a good dad, stole his wife, made his children sad, now hell’s coming with him. You thought he didn’t need that land, and looked at......

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...#Patience_cooked_a_stone Sitting here twitching and fidgeting, butterflies in my stomach wrestling, my heart took a wrong detour, taste of blood in my saliva, something is bleeding inside of me, fee......

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...Absurdity, chaos, strife: The poet chooses virtuous reality. Sisyphus, a titanic wave of metamorphosis, waiting, salted nausea: The thinker roughed by sand a solitary tree in a barren de......

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...It's not easy becoming a Legendary Major League Baseball pitcher. It never was and will never be. You get put through the wringer and hung out to dry. From time to time you'll get little or no......

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...Trip tripping over the words Wheres the same in the strange I've lost my way Since the pain Comes the rain Walk down my hall of shame No explanations for these reasons The places my mind trave......

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...AMBUSH There are times when you walk down the hall to yet another meeting, walk from your car to the strip mall pharmacy that dispenses your Viagra, or stand before a classroom of dedicated s......

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...She brought her fish with her To remind her of home And because she trusted no one to feed them like she did She was persnickety like that They were not nice to her today, roughed her up a bit......

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...12/23/20 Been one heck of a year and some month Recently got a buzz cut I'm buzzed yup I was down and I was up No longer such a young buck Always f***ed up What a f*** up Shut up And hush ......

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...SONNET FOR WINDS OF CHANGE Cross cirrus sky swift brush strokes paint mares' tails Tree tops are in restless susurration, While cumbrous clouds traverse in vapour trails Mead grass is fanned in......

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...I posed a'cross the garden gates rouged and roughed and slightly warped - unmoving - a vision thru the netherness ~ green vines harnessed upon gasps of breath strangled more tha......

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...A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes thrown down on a dare to be won or lost till it became a pape......

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...Devil:Marlboro Black It started with a knock at the door And a polite request to go with them If there was any resistance it was dealt with By taser or silenced pistol Those taken are cuffed and......

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...Silver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught Two hundred and forty six plus months into twenty first century celeb and anonymous folks alike gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb b......

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...Poems oft have me musing with my muse, sorting phrases so as not to reuse. A thesaurus is indispensable to make esoteric words sensible. And to brighten my vocabulary I consult......

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