Best Tough Poems

He said, “Chick-flicks I do not like.”
As they settled into place.
“I need violence, shoot-up scenes,
And at least one good car chase.”
But he promised to watch...

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There is a great hole in my heart where you fell through.

            I can...

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Stoic, is my demeanor
Masculine through and through
I’m as tough as the tough guys come
More manly than all of you

Emotions are for sissies
My tears had never...

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Put your hands up baby
let them dukes fly
If you’re wanting tough enough
then I’m the right guy

I’ve got the swagger
I know what you need
Let loose those...

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Being seen 
With poker face
Mistaken 
As who does not give a damn

Cool and distant
Unfriendly aura
On the way
With people's stares and whispers
That she is a bad...

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Sometimes life's a competition of how far we can throw,
Or simply having the greatest mind to win an intelligence show.
Certainly, there is still one thing...

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pandemic crisis
hospital overload
unprecedented 
panic mode
double shifts
no time for tears
no one signed up 
for a suicide mission 
taking its toll
heroes collapsing
one after the other
earning their wings



AP:...

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Tough Love

Sometimes with such strict parents, a tendancy to lend;
overlooking boundaries crossed to be your child's best friend.
I love my son with all my heart...

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Just like football we’re hard hitting and rough,
If you want to hang with us, you’ve gotta be tough;

No sissies allowed, we don’t cry when we’re...

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Today’s the day.
Our training is to be put on display.
Upon each is a test of the heart.
Guts to do it all from the start.
Here we...

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I never will forget in junior high
this girl who was a two-faced friend of mine.
I can’t remember now the reason why,
but she got mad for...

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Said contrary and crabby Miss Muffet
“Hey eight-legs! Kiss my bare Tuffet!” 
From above and beyond, Charlotte dropped a fine line
And bit the old bag where...

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Things may appear to be tough 
But, you have to hang in there
Embrace those challenges that life throws at you 
Build strength in order to...

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I wish I was a tough guy
The kind you meet in books 
Made of rock hard muscle
With rugged hard man looks
A Raymond Chandler hero 
Exuding...

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Leanne was a farm girl at heart
She loved playing with her special cow
She used to eat her mums freshly made tart
Leanne didn't like her brothers...

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