Short Toughened Poems

human pin cushion
survival mode apparent
toughened narcotics...

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It’s raining again;
It seemingly never ends;
Tomorrow is wet,
As sky overflows upon
The planet Earth’s toughened skin....

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dead skeleton tree
toughened weathered by strong winds...
Lover's winter fire  >

Sponsor: Nathan
Contest: Skeleton Tree...

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Feet
 ~
 Their course ~ time has worn
 Callous from life's travels
 Toughened since we were born
 Should their history unravel
 The stories of our past
 They might cause us to gravel
 Over possibilities passed
 ~
 Feat...

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A little boy born
No choice he had
Taught to be tough
Hand toughened by dad
Often told not good enough
Never shown much love
Yearning for acceptance
Very often looking above
Innocent until grown up
Never reaching his top
Crying from old memories
Enough he cries, make them stop
Now an adult always moving fast
Trying to outlive memories of the past...

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remember you,
who do you suppose
you are to me that you feel
I ought to worry much about
how I might be or seem to you?
still you're afloat in admiring awe
at  your mirror  view of  you and you;
but then I, now profusely bleeding,
shall in time be so toughened up
by scars that in her warmth
I'll no longer have the time
to even very vaguely
remember you!...

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Listen to poem:

Through charcoal outer
Light breaks through 
The after-fire 
All flesh renew

Still tender as
Not toughened yet
But fresh to view 
With no regret

Complex review
As furnace white 
Has tempered hopes
Of burnished bright

But love remains
No smoke or stains
A rich encounter 
Not sorrow chains.


3rd September 2023
Contest: NO 1241 NEW POEM ONLY
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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I was created fragile
Meant to remain mild
To usurp all that comes with time
Upon moments I rely
For that defines my life
And with lessons I thrive

But the passing time had me shaped
Concealing the real purpose I was created
Toughened and hardened till I baked
Craving with time to be saved
For the burden in silence sails to no avail
Until there seems to be no pace
And My frailty finally broken with age...

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