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Short Hardened Poems

Short Hardened Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Hardened by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Hardened by length and keyword.


Man of Clay
soft, malleable
manipulated deftly
hardened in a kiln...

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Categories: hardened, humanity,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Peace
…Oh, blow into them with hardened hearts, and rest within......

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Categories: hardened, peace,
Form: Monoku
Tragedy
withering petals
gently fall on hardened earth
autumn's tragedy...

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Categories: hardened, death, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Clarity Bestowed
The aqua tide lies serene clarity at the feet of the hardened earth....

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© Luke Irwin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hardened, nature,
Form: Monoku
Rocky Ledge
Lone rocky outcrop
Isolated hardened heart
Cold wind scours surface...

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Categories: hardened, depression
Form: Haiku



Mandela
Sometimes vision breaks
stone walls and hardened hearts
and leads to freedom....

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hardened, africa, inspiration,
Form: Haiku
Passion
Passion
never awaits
upon untrue intent
she only endures hardened
texts learned...

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Categories: hardened, life, love, passion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clay
There was an old lady 
who lay in the clay
It hardened like concrete
so there she will stay....

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Categories: hardened, death, funny, grandmother, old, satire, sleep, woman,
Form: Quatrain
Tender of the Hearth
Hestia,
Tender of the hearth.
Tender of the flame.
Oh, Hestia
Soften my hardened eyes
Warm my frozen heart...

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Categories: hardened, mythology,
Form: Lyric
Kiai Fire
Samurai writer
Bushido inspired
Katana withdrawn
Edge hardened by fire

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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Categories: hardened, war, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Laugh a Lot
Laugh a lot
Because when you do
The edges of hardened problems
Crumple away to dust... Smile! 


Akkina R Downing...

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Categories: hardened, happy, inspiration, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow Strangulation
heart invites us in our hardened stance heeds it not ~ a strange defiance 22-May-2022
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Categories: hardened, heart, love,
Form: Haiku
Bluebirds
Rough rains
bounce off

the hardened
ground.

Beyond bare
trees-

empty
of leaves,

no bluebirds
can be found...

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Categories: hardened, bird, blue, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Awakening
a warrior awakes
full~ hardened at sunrise
love breaks his fasting
young squaw with belly rounded
quickening~ a warrior wakes...

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Categories: hardened, adventure, family, love, mother, native american, nature,
Form: Tanka
Gun In Hand
Bitter hardened steel of death
Warm soft tissue fed by breath

From the breath steel comes to life
From cold steel a breathless wife...

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Categories: hardened, death,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silent Screams-
Quietly The voice screams it inflames softly hardened rigids of joy and pains~


12/8/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Categories: hardened, analogy, cheer up, community, confusion, meaningful,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Decorative Offspring
Clinging membranes grow baubles Encased, wood-like, hardened seeds Bough releases many fall Acorns dress the ground.
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Categories: hardened, earth, earth day, environment, nature, tree,
Form: Dodoitsu
Unbreakable?
Tyranny thrust upon mine heart.
Yet hardened more by ruthless heartbreak.
Steel may never pierce my chest.
But must i be impervious to love?...

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Categories: hardened, loss, lost love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Innocent and Softer Time
meadow larks melodic songs
uplift the most hardened hearts
reminding us of grandmothers
hollyhocks, and bleeding hearts
an innocent and softer time....

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Categories: hardened, flower, nostalgia,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Promise of Mowpheth
chazaq, qasheh, (harden, harden)
chazaq, chazaq  (harden, harden)

kabad, kabed, (hardened, hardened)
chazaq, kabad (harden, hardened)

don't worry Siria...

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Categories: hardened, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Clipped
Clipped are my wings
Gouged and feasted upon by inners sins
Once pure now diluted
once diluted now corrupted
Lostwrapped in the chaos of my hardened blood....

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Categories: hardened, life,
Form: Free verse
Chance To Love
love, where old soil
decays among elder trees--
like buds wanting to grow

seasons don't arrive
in lush wakes of affection
--a hardened clay in wintry life...

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Categories: hardened, lost love,
Form: Sedoka
Stones
Name: Gary S. Watkins
Contest: Just Ten Words
Date: 04/09/2014



Hardened, 
           precious,
beautfiful.

I wish
     my 
          heart
     was
one . . ....

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Categories: hardened, heart, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Hardened Heart
Barriers cracked and chipped with age
Once standing firm now tremble in rage.
To regain the solidity once defined
That now lies uncertain, its’ strength resigned....

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Categories: hardened, angst, hope, sad,
Form: Couplet
Noteworthy
Joe Doaks was a hardened criminal
the truth about him wasn’t subliminal.
Then he met a sweetheart
who gave him a new start.
Now he leads a prison choir with a hymnal....

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Categories: hardened, change, music,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs