Short Tough Poems
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I've known men so tough
that they worked with broken bones
yet cry when dogs die
date-3/17/2019
some or tall
some or small
build like a wall
working in a bad places
them you have the faces
here's why
we call them
TOUGH GUY
Be careful with giving yourself too much grace and kindness. Sometimes we benefit from giving ourselves tough love too. - Strength
Short & Sweet...
I Don’t Care Who
You Think You Are:
You're Not That Important.
SILENCE!
-Gray Squirrel
12-04-2025
theyer everywhere
here and there
well underthe stood
theyer in the hood
some chop would
and the reason why
is to be a
TOUGH GUY
Our class teacher is Mr.Luff,
He's really strict and very tuff.
And the ratio of class to fun
is a measly twelve to one!
FICTION!!
Poor child crying his eyes out;
Clutching on with vice-like grip...
Peeling her child off her legs;
Sad mom heads to work.
So, She KICKS
Me In The Ass,
Instead've KISSssing
Me Goodbye,
And Says:
"Get Out Of The Way..."
Shorty.
-Gray Squirrel
10-15-2025
He was tough. He was no wimp.
He was a suitcase thrown by a chimp.
He broke his chains and got on outta there,
charged up by the electric chair.
Tough Old Birds
Miracle Man
8/10/2024
Life is not a game,
where only the strong survive,
though most days, strength helps.
An explorer's life can be tough
when it is time to use a rough
bridge to cross a ravine
and flee an indigene.
Is the thirteenth board strong enough?
Between-the-cracks and nasty beneath-the-surface stuff
creeps up on me; then getting rid of it becomes too tough!
For Susan Burch's Couplet Challenge
I used to wear a watch in my pocket
Times got tough and I had to hock it
Now if I do a crime
I cannot do the time
Because I haven’t the timepiece to clock it
Love is tough.
Love is a fight.
Climbing a rope,
full of spikes.
Get to the top.
You are on safegrounds.
The love you were looking for
has finally been found.
Form:
I remember as a kid this one little guy
tough as nails and quick with a lie
he showed up with a shiner
but he wasn't a whiner
said he, I hit his fist with my eye
Life is made,
but it's not toilsome, unless
we perform weakly...
life is fair,
if we offer it fair value...
We serve and we are served,
we live, and we are
lived... !
Everyone teased him, thought Sean was prissy
His mean roommates even called him 'Missy'
Did Sean feel abused?
Not at all! He mused:
What am I? ~ A sissy or a cissy?!
Ouchica grouchica
Monica Hunt-Summers
Freed of staid husband her
Eyes flashing bright
Sashayed to Florida
Ultra-spontaneously
Surveyed the options and
Quick said goodnight.
Tough times have fallen on the North Pole
COVID-19's shrunk employer payrolls
So, the good Lord's invoked the grandfather clause
To increase the pension due Santa Claus
What Would The World
Be Like If Everyone Thought
They Were Saving The World
In Their Own Peculiar Way?
Would It Be Any Different
Than Today?
-Gray Squirrel
11-06-2025
What tool will freak out Iran’s folk?
Big bombs to regime change invoke!
Since soft will not do
Seems Lindsey can’t chew
Graham Crackers on which he did choke
Long ago and far away,
I drank a glass of wine one day,
But I was allergic to grapes,
Wine o'clock for me don't rate,
Just listening to you is enough,
Whine o'clock now, tough!
Trails on Tough Trek
Twisted through trails on a tough trek;
Then we finally ended up at Quebec;
Water would run;
We had much fun,
Until cold water was up to our neck.
Jim Horn
TOILING THESE TOUGH TIMES
Trumped towers tilting
Towards treacherous times:
Tenacity taught:-
Today’s themes, true trials:
Thundering tribulations,
Tremendously testing:-
Pain, torture is rough
with diamond in the rough
life is not enough
we drill with slough
tough enough we do
curious and patient ado
difficulties becomes my boo
and blood is my goo.