Short Roughest Poems

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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Horrific attributes 
Calamities all around 
Skid row broken dreams
Roughest atmosphere 
A distorted ambiance 
Hear the jeers of morbid souls...

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An ocean so big and waves so high 

Tears falling down , voices whispering 

as i am watched by the eye 

the sorrow and the pain can't be taken away 

not even by the perfect storm 

not even in its roughest form...

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Flowing waterfalls of this journey;
Along the way 
encountering villains and would be knights; 
Maybe I am writing my own fairytale;
 In the roughest currents 
I am what my inner damsel seeks; 
I am the one who will save me....

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Your kisses are like explosions 
for my lips, 
Your touches are electric shocks 
for my skin,
Your smile is like chamomile to 
my spirit, 
Your embrace is my safe haven 
in the roughest of storms,  
Your voice is my addiction and 
Your love will be my complete 
destruction....

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Life with the boys 
Is chaotic at best
Organized destruction 
Challenges continue

The roughest I've met 
Except maybe dad
A boy for all boys
Fearless if that

A world of teaching 
And learning 
Yearning to explore
To be their own

Individual voices
Imaginative minds
Sensitive souls
Polite as their mom...

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Author Dana Redricks
February 21, 2018

As I sit here reminiscing 
about all God has done for me
Joy floods my soul
He has brought me through 
the roughest storms
and the darkest nights
He has comforted when
my heart was broken
and he has done 
so much more
I have known many
people in my life,
but none compares to him...

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Silence lingers above my head
The man that's lost at sea; afloat
And underneath are fish not fed
All staring at my makeshift boat

I never knew exactly how
A piece of wood could feel so safe
For not even the toughest bow
Has saved me from this constant strafe

I guess I must be grateful, then
For still to live is such a gift
Yet Sea has claimed the roughest men
And I'm a weak one set adrift...

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I have traversed through the thickest jungles

Fought off exotic bees

Searched aperch the highest mountains and sailed the roughest seas

Tried medicines from tribal men 

Sled the North Pole in the coldest degrees

Looked inside of Lions Mouths and picked them of their fleas

My Search goes on and on and on

Quite indefinitely

All I need is for you to do as I like

And put my mind at ease...

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There is silence in this grief
There is friction in the heart
There's a mountain filled with sorrows
That tears the joys apart.

On this woesome road of life
Kissed by the fumes of pain
When not a shed or an open cover
To shelter from the rain.

But beyond a moment of grind
Is the gleaming light of hope
But its hard to see the rainbow
Beyond the roughest slope.

Woesome seas of anguish
Drifting through the wind
Crashing on the seashores
Of a life ablazed in rend....

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IF LIFE’S UNFAIR

If ‘twas my lot to carry heavy loads,
I’m afraid, however, I will not refuse
to tread on to the roughest of roads,
and test the limits of my sinews.

If you can just choose, will you transit
only the roads straight and smooth?
Or will you brave the long winding route
that grants wisdom and strength of spirit?

If life’s unfair to you and me,
unfair to them and to many,
then life is fair, fair share of sore.
To life we must complain no more....

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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 Time
   All alone, he’d bawl and pout

But then came New Year’s Day
  when this runt became a king
He’d toast the Strumpet, Fortune
  removing her g-string… 

In the morning he’d awaken
  and reach for his good luck
But he’d clutch an empty pillow
  ~ back seat of a pick-up truck...

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