In Stitches and In Toughness
The tongue, the tooth or today,
Or then, the gaze with memories and sweat,
Left of the misery, the haze, or the blurred set,
The thoughts tied to the codes for the day,
The tongue, the tooth or the say today.
The better character to talk of for casuals,
Worth the keep, the dialogues and perusals,
Mirrored in own self, the beauty
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Categories:
toughness, absence, anger, heart, heartbroken,
Form: ABC
Photograph of a Pioneer Woman
She has sat too long in the wind.
It stretched every plane of her face into smiles
Except for the sad mouth.
She carries her happy, laughing, children
Every one, on her shoulders,
Where their dead father would have.
She coughs, and sighs, and curses, and grits,
Until all that is left
Is the halves of dreams.
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Categories:
toughness, absence, appreciation, mother, remember,
Form: Free verse
Me Little Mother
She turns me around
Forty years ago
At High School graduation
And she says…
Something I can’t remember
It was probably something like,
‘Well, lookit that!’ or
‘Boy, Howdy!’ or
Some such encouragement
And… though I cannot remember it
Now, I would not part with it
For all the treasures riding
In all the ships on the sea
Music!
She gave me music!
Wagner and Mendelssohn
Beethoven and Duke
Ella Fitzgerald and
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Categories:
toughness, appreciation, faith, humor, mother,
Form: Free verse
Wounded
I am bleeding less, now that my index finger's in the wound, sir!
1/27/2019
(fiction!)
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Categories:
toughness, humorous, hurt, military, pain,
Form: Monoku
Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness
Written: by Tom Wright
6/16/2018
Mental toughness drives tough old birds,
It sums up our lives with just two words.
An optimistic attitude is what we bring,
And motivates us beyond issues that ding;
Our glass is half full each minute of time,
We march lockstep to our own paradigm.
This defines who we are and who you see,
I happily say,
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Categories:
toughness, perspective, truth,
Form: Lyric
My Mental Toughness
My mental toughness wasn't anywhere to be found when you started bullying me.
I didn't think much of myself; your bullying made me feel small and weak.
I spent a lot of time being angry and crying. I didn't laugh like before, not very much
joy in my life at all.
You were winning, and what little
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Categories:
toughness, bullying, character, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme