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Roughest Poems - Poems about Roughest

FRIENDS THROUGH TIME

...A young girl,
An old lady,
A mother of two,
A passionate dancer—
All were friends of mine.

Across the decades,
Through Chennai floods
And Hindi classes,
They stood with courage and quiet de...
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Categories: roughest, age, fire, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Winter Withers

...Winter Withers

…… its way into the woods
and waits….and wonders….and watches
until…. No-one is looking.
Boorishly, an ally introduces itself,
an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver
the woods’ m...
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Categories: roughest, depression, nature, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberReflections In A Cemetery

...Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an insolent breeze fails...
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Categories: roughest, bereavement, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberLIVE LIKE THE OCEAN

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May you be blessed to live your life like the ocean”
You hope your days will be calm…
still some days huge waves wash over you
but even in the roughest times…
like the ocean…
may the beauty yo...
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Categories: roughest, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPitbull Martial Arts

...The roughest, toughest to ever enter the Octagon/
Beating the competition to a pulp, is what I be on/
I do not cut slack, my combinations are vicious/
They hit you back to back, the impact is stup...
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Categories: roughest, career, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Imag1ne pt 2

...Well, I think I found them. Yes they may not look the same, and yes they may not have the same personality. But it’s not always just about that, that isn’t what I'm looking for. I’m looking for the s...
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Categories: roughest, 11th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOasis

...Xanadu! Heaven in a desert! Rest of the restless!
Where the Almighty reveals a gleam of his gorgeous glimpse
Where nature reaches out her healing hands to the helpless
Where the sprig sources and ...
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Categories: roughest, life, nature, water,
Form: Sonnet

Trying

...I'm trying to be okay
Even on the roughest days
It's hard but I've come so far
I just got to survive this life
I just got to thrive
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Categories: roughest, pain, stress,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNow Laying In Boot Hill Under Frozen Ground

...Now Laying In Boot Hill Under Frozen Ground


Tony was a wicked dude carried a thirty-eight
Always raced his fast cars always cheated Fate
Carried a straight razor in his left shoe
Things that ...
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Categories: roughest, art, conflict, death, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWalk Tall

...I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I enjoyed going to school and was doing really well
Mom sang my pr...
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Categories: roughest, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative

The Pilots Poem

...Starting a new plan a project or a new business is very similar to taking a flight.
Once your plane gets off the ground, its smooth sailing through boundless skies graceful as a kite.
When prep...
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Categories: roughest, analogy, courage, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSkid Row

...Horrific attributes 
Calamities all around 
Skid row broken dreams
Roughest atmosphere 
A distorted ambiance 
Hear the jeers of morbid souls...
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Categories: roughest, character, dark, dream,
Form: Tanka

The Goddess of Death - Completely Made Up For Contest

...The Goddess of Death (completely made up! for contest)
in the new of days
when man was
but a first of
the new things
for the gods
to play with

a male child was
to be born

and many gods
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Categories: roughest, age, angel, betrayal, birth,
Form: I do not know?

Foul Play On a Football Pitch

...On a football pitch a frosty foul,
Spared by The Referee his booking howl
But not The Goalie’s condemning growl …

Just badly kicked was his jowl 
By the scorer now wearing a scowl!

“The Luck...
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Categories: roughest, bullying, career, cry, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberToast the Strumpet, Fortune

...Used to call him ‘half-pint’
  He was a sawed-off runt
He’d down his drink in seconds
  Then he’d burp and grunt

Manners had he zero
   He’d grown up down and out
Roughest patch was X-mas Tim...
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Categories: roughest, christmas, desire, drink, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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