Tougher Poems - Poems about Tougher

The Enoch who wants to treasures Loot Hasn’t ever dared to cock and shoot Nor owns for Tough Doors A Tougher Boot Nor a thing tried to hit at its root: Enoch The Large-Eyed doing a hoot; An impatient car with its odd toot… Not all ideas should we simply moot, Sighting not first its succulent fruit. Whoever must take the Risky...

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Verse 1: I was brought up to think like a soldier, to guard every emotion in a tight metal cage I learned how to shut down and suck it all in but no one ever taught me how to live with my rage Chorus: I once thought I was tougher than nails and my heart was as hard as heat hardened steel rails but now I've been hammered...

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Between Caren K and her Muse I can't tell who's tougher Yet if one the other abused I think that both would suffer (Not for 'Tease' Contest)...

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Come with me now; don't you wonder sometimes what lights up my face when I glance your way, what leaps from my heartbeats into my rhymes, what makes me uncertain quite what to say? I know you can see, though pride makes me sly, and you understand, too, my armor is weak. Your sparkling mirth keeps me dreadfully shy, aware you are...

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The vermin roam the hallways looking for a taste; They’re moaning to an eerie song as if they’re giving grace. The vultures listen carefully atop a pile of bones; The insect’s searches anything they’ll even eat their...

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Often I wish I had a tougher heart One built like a hardened missile site. A heart impervious to passion’s piercing; Armored steel and Kevlar strong. A vaulted core where not grief or pain Nor, sorrow could find entry Not this tender, worthless, lump of flesh Which tears and rips and shreds and scars, Yet,...

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I'm woman with fists; a raspy voice heard, steel eyes, cold and fierce yet with soft skin, so warm when held... I'm a tougher woman you see. People see me small- a child inside- weaker than a crispy leaf of fall that dangles from a tree... But people not know, till they make me defensive- that I'm tougher than brick, stronger than concrete- I'm a tougher woman you see. So...

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