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Tough Love Poems - Poems about Tough Love

Premium MemberTough Love

mom fed baby birds
      pushed out of the nest by mom
they must learn to fly
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Categories: tough love, bird, fear, food, life,
Form: Senryu

Do me wrong

Why u do me dirty, like I'm so ing dumb, u out here tryna play, but u ain't having much fun. You got me at the house, lying to my face, then go back and do it again, so this  can take  my place. Your trash to me now, there's no turning back,
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Categories: tough love, anger, feelings, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Self-Tough Love

Be careful with giving yourself too much grace and kindness. Sometimes we benefit from giving ourselves tough love too. - Strength
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Categories: tough love, care, future, love,
Form: Free verse

Tough Love

You don't need a listener,
let your heart muscles
pound out
a blind-folded poem.

Practice hand to hand combat
with your unlettered soul
until it lays down defeated.

Marshal the words,
articulate their fractured forms.

in the dark, wake up
the light,
it is your next unwritten page,
destroy its blank face.
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Categories: tough love, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tough Love

Male Parasite Stabs Female in Neck With Peenis.
Males,which live up to six hours,fly around looking
for these embedded females,with which they'll mate
and then die,After the larvae emerge from the female,
she dies too.This is called suicidal sax or lethal sax.
Pacific salmon die after spawning the chinook species.
After her first batch of eggs hatch,mothers first 
regurgitate food for
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Categories: tough love, abortion, addiction, adventure, animal,
Form: Free verse



Tough Love

I want so much to cry ,
But my feelings I must conceal.
Hold back the tears from my eyes
And also this pain that I feel.
It's already been over a year now,
Why must I still dwell?
Why can't I just let it go?
And forget about how far I fell.
Why can't I just get out there
Then see what life
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Categories: tough love, change, conflict, courage, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTough Love

clutching at straws
     struggling without cause

falling further behind
     your actions you malign

slipping into despair
     considering your life unfair

borne of self-destruction
     feeding your own seduction

whirling into frustration
     feeling deep desperation

no extended hand
    
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Categories: tough love, confidence, courage, depression, emotions,
Form: Couplet

One-Liner

I slept on it overnight so I wouldn't lash out
The words I'd have said would not have been kind
Conflicted between feelings of anger and sorrow 
I needed to pause and absorb your one-lined reply

Being your last priority has become tiresome 
So I bit my tongue, and kept my thoughts to myself 
And I've decided no
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Categories: tough love, anger, conflict, feelings, health,
Form: Rhyme

Encourage Yourself

No one encourages me, they do not realize you see

I have accomplished this, I have accomplished that

I did not get rewarded, I've done my best

I passed the test

I look great, I look nice

But they are cold as ice

They did not acknowledge me

Encourage yourself.

I did the best, I went all out of the way

Noone rewarded me,
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Categories: tough love, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Tough Love

she tossed and turned
she was missing something
but what?
the night was long already
and the clock didn’t tell
how long before morning

 
she tossed and turned
in limbo for twenty-seven
she’d be damned
if  she went one extra
without an account
to give her kinsmen

 
she tossed and turned
over dreams long gone bad
she’d found strange
comfort with sorrow
this could easily be
her tomb unless
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Categories: tough love, appreciation, black love, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Tough Love - No Regrets

I tried to give you all my love
But that for you was not enough

I wanted you to love me to
But I just never ever knew
Did you or didn’t you

I tried to give you all my love
I know now that was far too tough

Although it took a while for me to read the clue
I am glad
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Categories: tough love, deep, fate, girlfriend, independence
Form: Free verse

Tough Love

Love is a gift unconditional to blood
Flowing through veins, strong like a flood
Freely given from the womanly vessel
But oft whith which I fought and wrestle

Though The years have not always been kind
Your strange kind of love was strong in my mind
My own self destruction, to which I was blind
Your tough love was needed for myself
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Categories: tough love, growth, mom, parents,
Form: Rhyme

Tough Love Is On Display

Tough love is on display
Because, the child has been lead astray
Following the wrong crowd
And sadly, wasting her life away
Both parents are in a state of worry
They just want their child back
Words of encouragement have been given
Hopefully, she will move towards the right track
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Categories: tough love, conflict, corruption, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTough Love

There is a great hole in my heart where you fell through.

            I can see you still falling deeper and deeper, wondering where
                     
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Categories: tough love, character, emotions, love, pain,
Form: Free verse

Tough Love

Throughout life there will be many lessons
Others have come through so will you too
Until that moment we won't learn how too
Giving up it might seem the easier option
How will we learn if we don't even try it

Learning it's one of the key of living our life
Once we know those lessons are learnt
Vulnerability it's a sign
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Categories: tough love, anti bullying, depression, life,
Form: Acrostic

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