Best Toughness Poems

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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