Short Nose To The Grindstone Poems

Be resilient is the mainstay
For trouble and strife can be a moment away
Don’t overthink or wonder too long
For strength in adversity is needed along
With you nose to the grindstone and not on the air 
Don’t be weighed down but show you care.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Education starts at home
  Work kids' fingers to the bone
Pile up the chores after school
  Then on to homework
               --  That's the rule

No TV shows or quick little breaks
  Nose to the grindstone 'til it aches
If you want them to taste freedom
  Prepare kids to counter Red China's Kingdom...

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Putting my best foot forward
shoulder to the wheel
nose to the grindstone
my Achilles heel
while sticking my neck out
I soon found
as
with my eye on the ball
ear to the ground
when I put my back into it
not with tongue in cheek
but to keep my chin up
heard joints creak
the onset of old age memory loss
an early taste
for in the end I forgot to bend
at the knees and not the waist
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Urination reigns rains flowing 
Covering the firmaments grasses 
Backing splashing on the oak tree
Nose to the grindstone Kentucky bluegrass
Sniffs out allergens striving to mark a path
Marking at territorial arenas grasp
A leg up Or just a squat
Relinquishing rains
Watch the green grasses 
Now yellow patches 
From yellow rain
Puring down tween a dog's leg


1/24/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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I forgot.

When was it
the word withered
the phrases fled?

When did vigilance for the lines
crumble laxly into the air.

Was it when I, unfaithful
to my craft, forgot to work;

in nonchalance to practice;
lost nose to the grindstone.

I thought, poetic as I was,
the majestic write would

upon me light like 
pollen in the breeze.

Write it down, when it comes.
I'll bet that's what Dr. Seuss did.

Kathryn Collins
May 8, 20016...

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