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Toughs Poems - Poems about Toughs

Premium Member The Organized Crime Rhyme
...In the 1920's labor had fights Employers hired toughs, both sides ignored rights Unions hired the Mafia, thought they’d be strong The tactic was effective, but unwise and wrong. The Mafia knew ......

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Categories: toughs, drug, freedom, rights,
Form: Lyric
Pied Piper
...Pied Piper in the village square – a man With a wooden flute and a golden plan – Whatever are you doing here? Did the elders panic, call you in To purge the town of salt and sin? Are you here ......

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Categories: toughs, music,
Form: Rhyme



Untitled
...The possessions I pray upon, Are not meant for me to grasp, Toughs of becoming a man, Is unreachable like the stars. Joy I once had turned into fear, Prayers, miracles and faith, Are words th......

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Categories: toughs, appreciation, life, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Potted
...I can’t get the moors out of my skin - me the wild bog asphodel now planted in a pot in tame Ohio. The moors grind you into peat and gritstone, they keep walking you around while the open ......

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Categories: toughs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walking With Rumi
...WALKING WITH RUMI It’s a religious routine, his impious use of scripture and prayer calling on god for salvation and sustenance, purity of heart, perhaps a way better job, or some actual proof ......

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Categories: toughs, love,
Form: Free verse



I Find Myself To Be This Longing
...I can’t get the moors out of my skin; me the indirect descendant of Jim Bowie, the wild colonial boy now planted like a ‘Wandering Jew’ in a pot, in tame Ohio. Planted in a State where few v......

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Categories: toughs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member East End, Where the Toughs Hang Out
...If you want to find out what it's all about, Go to East End, where the toughs hang out; Where street-smart girls, their skirts unfurled- Through the wicked streets whirl. Nights down there-alwa......

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Categories: toughs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Scars Bestow Ivory Grace
...Due to an injury, love's scars can be seen. In matters of love scars fade like a dream Scars of beauty they are declared. Some refer to as ugly because they're scared. Love leaves scars which mos......

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Categories: toughs, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Mother
...Mother, you surpass all Your care like layers packed Altogether to cater forever That beyond leisure you treasured Mother, the way you smiled When I wailed And the way you laughed off my to......

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Categories: toughs, appreciation, best friend, birthday,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Asylum Seekers
...Children get seized at the border; parents are led away in cuffs. Under Presidential order ICE morphed into a gang of toughs. The United States has no shame they sold their soul to the......

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Categories: toughs, 12th grade, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Toughs of Life
...Truth shall hold, and set one free Righteousness shall reign, and let one be Ornaments that fold, unfold at three Under father of rain, Son Spirit be Brighter rising against cold, sun must set f......

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Categories: toughs, angst, cry, depression, scary,
Form: Acrostic
Maxon Hadcock's Long Ride, Part Ii
......The two toughs turned, both their eyes went wide, then as one they stared in laughing, “Look at this fool, he thinks he’s a cowboy! I think his head must’ve taken a rapping.” They advanced w......

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Categories: toughs, death, evil, god, journey,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cuffs
...At protests in the 60's We were dragged away in cuffs. The cops arrested everyone - The peaceniks and the toughs. As we grew up, the only cuffs Were those found on our pants. Designers did de......

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Categories: toughs, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everything Turns Surreal
...A sassy moon hangs in the sky, the bar's full, and you're feeling spry. And amidst the laughter and jeers, the waiter shouts, "last call for beers." This tavern is the best, bar none, ......

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Categories: toughs, angst, anxiety, death, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
...Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind (*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)......

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Categories: toughs, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse

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