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Toughened Poems - Poems about Toughened

Drone
...Drone little specs down below watch them scurry to and fro streams of white and red filling an ocean at my behest with broken backs and crooked limbs their hurried toils are the subject ......

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Categories: toughened, corruption, culture, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
erosion
...while i was passing by in aisle five i overheard “get help” she happened to glance at me and by 6:03 i happened to think what if she said “get well” and i don’t know who and i wasn’t ther......

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Categories: toughened, addiction, deep, depression, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member No One Left to Remember
...Only three of us now who knew both sets of our grandparents. The three of us, 96, 94 and 88, how much time have we left? There are sepia photos from the old, first Brownie cameras, a few portra......

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Categories: toughened, family, grandparents, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SOUL SURVIVOR
...I am the soul survivor A vagrant lost amid the vagaries of life And its endless assaults I am the protector Of the hunted aspects of my being Denied Unable to be wholly who I am And yet I pers......

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Categories: toughened, growth, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’] __________ A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at......

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Categories: toughened, adventure,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Ballade of The Cliff
... Tho' bore your fate 'tis artless place you lone Your girth--your hold freedoms--your claims be more Restrained your gambled trade choice place bemoan Shewn thee frankly tho' toughened be your co......

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Categories: toughened, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Rites of Passage
...(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil) Rites of Passage Forty-six years ago, my first winter in the Pacific NW my first winter break at college, I headed out to climb Mt Stuar......

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Categories: toughened, adventure, memory, winter, youth,
Form: Narrative
Where are you from?
...I've come from hurt and the future seems uncertain and that really scares me Cause I'm afraid I'll be walking right into hurt I've come from betrayal and I'm still getting over that and wha......

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Categories: toughened, absence, depression, pain, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blackened Heart
...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 tem......

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Categories: toughened, feelings, fire, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Womb of a Mother
...Born into a world that's hard to bear, Trapped by the tree of life, with branches bare. But even in the darkest days, There's hope for a brighter tomorrow, in so many ways. We fought to be bo......

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Categories: toughened, appreciation, family, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas In My Heart
...CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART No Christmas tree, no twinkling lights No halls decked with boughs of holly No songs of Christmas sentiments sung by those making jolly No shrills of laughter of li......

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Categories: toughened, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
What We Do To Win, Part I
...I long have been a trail-runner, and my name is Art Constantine, sprinting peaks is a thigh-burner, just as tiring as it seems, I started this at seventeen. Most people thought that I was nuts......

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Categories: toughened, heart, life, meaningful, men,
Form: Narrative
Taught To Be a Bad One
...Remember failures at school in the week, my special needs I was academically weak over the weekend successful at sport, my strength and my ability growing more, You would take the prize feel......

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Categories: toughened, abuse, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rule of Threes Three
...Will you make the cut? Or settle for a shortcut? Coaches' scuttlebutt Execute the steal Professing rather than real The truth to conceal Blessing progeny Highlights God's sovereignty Not......

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Categories: toughened, bible, life, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hero
...Hero I know who you are Your secret is busted My spider sense tingles It can always be trusted The bad guys are nervous They can't see through your glasses All evil's on hold While yo......

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Categories: toughened, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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