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Roughening Poems - Poems about Roughening


Premium MemberNo Body Parts Rejected

...Well well well how interesting
About to write about things stiffening
Like body parts selected
No body parts rejected
But be careful absolutely no roughening...
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Categories: roughening, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberOne Day

...We've been through
Roughening waves,
But we sat and never threw
Ourselves out of furious rave.

One day my heart
Will be glad that
We haven't yet fallen apart
And are not as sad as before.

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Categories: roughening, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



You'Ve Got To Tell Your Story

...Walls explode, windows crash
Lightning in the middle, ceremoniously mash
the safety of my core, the distressed world of my being
that has given me a reality, gazing into the sky, seeing
the truth...
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Categories: roughening, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSufficient To Exist

...There’s a yearning within me
to flee to my place of peace.
I want to sit in solitude
on the side of a hill and
drink in nature’s performance.

Sitting there I would taste
the sweet breath of t...
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Categories: roughening, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse

When I Dance

...I seize time when funky drummer songs break
into my body robbing feeling of nerves making me fly
off floors with hips bouncing and shoes sweeping soot on concrete
I leave my history on any ground ...
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Categories: roughening, culture, dance, earth, humanity,
Form: Sestina



At Doomsday-Dreaming

...o, the young night’s roughening
palms solid upon
the drowsy faces of niger-lads –
the slow current of the stream
of sleep drifting
the niger’s world –
& we went a-stupor like old troy
besieged...
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Categories: roughening, allegoryold, old,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things