The Second To The Last Straw
...The Second To The Last Straw
Just Forgiving One More Time,
This Isn’t A Super-Wide Camel's
Back With A Minor Tolerance In Mind.
The Conditions For Unconditional
Can Quickly Toughen Love To S...
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Categories:
toughen, life,
Form: Free verse
DAILY GRATITUDE L R KNOST
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Today I’m grateful to revisit the words of L. R. Knost…
She wrote:
It’s not our job to toughen our children up
to face a world that is heartless and cruel…
It is our job to raise children,
w...
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Categories:
toughen, children,
Form: Rhyme
Timid Tom
...Timid Tom had a typical token,
a tiny teddybear,
a tasty taco,
a tattered tophat
Tom had his things taken by taunting Tess
, but Tom toughen
So he told the tall teacher
Now he is no longer ...
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Categories:
toughen, anti bullying,
Form: Alliteration
Thank You
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Thank you
How I keep saying
Deep gratitude showing
Generosity, kindness, beauty
The wonder and joy of giving..
What would I consider or measure
The value of what is received, the...
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Categories:
toughen, beauty, dedication, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
So Naive
...Who am l kidding
It means nothing at all
Just another pile of bullsh*t
Into l fall
Am l so gullible
Thinking the best
To be disappointed, disillusioned
My heart put to the test
Toughen ...
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Categories:
toughen, confusion, hurt, self,
Form: Rhyme
Vanilla Pudding
...nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape
my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our shared chil...
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Categories:
toughen, angst, bullying, caregiving, child
Form: Free verse
Ogre
...I’m not much of an ogre he thought
As a chipmunk nibbled his twisted toe nail.
Nope, I like my fur fluffed and clean
And my nails…well, not painted
But neatly buffed and filed.
Damn! I hate me...
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Categories:
toughen, humor,
Form: Free verse
Old Green Bottle
...Get drunk oh bottle
dance through the market Square
Covering your shame with linens of lies
a repulse and comic act
While easing into the saucer
Get drunk oh bottle
beat ember of tired fla...
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Categories:
toughen, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
What If God Said
...What if God said
“I cannot love you all.”
“you will have to toughen up,
look after each other,
love one another.”
“What!!! How can I love
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Categories:
toughen, god, love, people,
Form: Free verse
Wanda and Rudolph
...Your only four feet tall and you got a red nose taunts the scarlet witch
"But I have antlers strong & sturdy and I can outshine a blood moon anytime "
You can buck your horns but you can't delive...
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Categories:
toughen, appreciation, humorous, relationship,
Form: Narrative
Oh, Insecurities
...I was unfaithful cuz I’m insecure
I was an unfaithful guy that’s for sure
Rough road I chose for myself, true
Toughen up, it’s all on you, bud — said a woman too
In the middle of the road in Ne...
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Categories:
toughen, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Lyric
Resilient and Bold
...I shied away from the sunlight today
I lied to myself and thought it was the truth in a way
I tell myself…as my skin above my blood begin to boil rapidly in anxiety—
Toughen up, it’s all on you, b...
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Categories:
toughen, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Lyric
Marmite Man Found Hiding In His Jar
...Sir Tom aka Marmite Man
It’s obvious you are the people’s choice
“But do not” rest on your laurels
As I too have a voice!!
I’ve noticed when addressing the people
There’s a recurring whinge of...
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Categories:
toughen, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Truth
...Truth lies within us all
Tarnished by our egos,
Taunting evil voices
Trusting bad decisions,
Toughen, bruised and shattered...
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Categories:
toughen, betrayal, conflict, lost, truth,
Form: Pleiades
Ocean Waves
...They hit shores like never before
Wonder what they were thinking about
To feel so sore
Why were they so rough
Was it time to toughen up
Sand and pebbles on my feet
With grumpy waves beneath my ...
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Categories:
toughen, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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