Toughness Poems - Poems about 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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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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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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I am bleeding less, now that my index finger's in the wound, sir! 1/27/2019 (fiction!)...

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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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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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