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Tough Love Poems - Poems about Tough Love

Self-Tough Love
Be careful with giving yourself too much grace and kindness. Sometimes we benefit from giving ourselves tough love too. - Strength...

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Categories: tough love, care, future, love,
Form: Free verse
Tough Love
You don't need a listener, let your heart muscles pound out a blind-folded poem. Practice hand to hand combat with your unlettered soul until it lays down defeated. Marshal the words, articulate their fractured forms. in the dark, wake up the light, it is your next unwritten page, destroy its blank face....

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Categories: tough love, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love and Tough Love
mom fed baby birds pushed out of the nest by mom they must learn to fly...

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Categories: tough love, baby, bird, flying, food,
Form: Haiku
Tough Love
Male Parasite Stabs Female in Neck With Peenis. Males,which live up to six hours,fly around looking for these embedded females,with which they'll mate and then die,After the larvae emerge from the female, she dies too.This is called suicidal sax or lethal sax. Pacific salmon die after spawning the chinook species. After her first batch of eggs hatch,mothers first regurgitate food for...

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Categories: tough love, abortion, addiction, adventure, animal,
Form: Free verse
Tough Love
I want so much to cry , But my feelings I must conceal. Hold back the tears from my eyes And also this pain that I feel. It's already been over a year now, Why must I still dwell? Why can't I just let it go? And forget about how far I fell. Why can't I just get out there Then see what life...

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Categories: tough love, change, conflict, courage, happiness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tough Love
clutching at straws struggling without cause falling further behind your actions you malign slipping into despair considering your life unfair borne of self-destruction feeding your own seduction whirling into frustration feeling deep desperation no extended hand ...

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Categories: tough love, confidence, courage, depression, emotions,
Form: Couplet
One-Liner
I slept on it overnight so I wouldn't lash out The words I'd have said would not have been kind Conflicted between feelings of anger and sorrow I needed to pause and absorb your one-lined reply Being your last priority has become tiresome So I bit my tongue, and kept my thoughts to myself And I've decided no...

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Categories: tough love, anger, conflict, feelings, health,
Form: Rhyme
Encourage Yourself
No one encourages me, they do not realize you see I have accomplished this, I have accomplished that I did not get rewarded, I've done my best I passed the test I look great, I look nice But they are cold as ice They did not acknowledge me Encourage yourself. I did the best, I went all out of the way Noone rewarded me,...

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Categories: tough love, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Tough Love
she tossed and turned she was missing something but what? the night was long already and the clock didn’t tell how long before morning she tossed and turned in limbo for twenty-seven she’d be damned if she went one extra without an account to give her kinsmen she tossed and turned over dreams long gone bad she’d found strange comfort with sorrow this could easily be her tomb unless...

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Categories: tough love, appreciation, black love, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Tough Love - No Regrets
I tried to give you all my love But that for you was not enough I wanted you to love me to But I just never ever knew Did you or didn’t you I tried to give you all my love I know now that was far too tough Although it took a while for me to read the clue I am glad...

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Categories: tough love, deep, fate, girlfriend, independence
Form: Free verse
Tough Love
Love is a gift unconditional to blood Flowing through veins, strong like a flood Freely given from the womanly vessel But oft whith which I fought and wrestle Though The years have not always been kind Your strange kind of love was strong in my mind My own self destruction, to which I was blind Your tough love was needed for myself...

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Categories: tough love, growth, mom, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Tough Love Is On Display
Tough love is on display Because, the child has been lead astray Following the wrong crowd And sadly, wasting her life away Both parents are in a state of worry They just want their child back Words of encouragement have been given Hopefully, she will move towards the right track...

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Categories: tough love, conflict, corruption, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tough Love
There is a great hole in my heart where you fell through. I can see you still falling deeper and deeper, wondering where ...

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Categories: tough love, character, emotions, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Tough Love
Throughout life there will be many lessons Others have come through so will you too Until that moment we won't learn how too Giving up it might seem the easier option How will we learn if we don't even try it Learning it's one of the key of living our life Once we know those lessons are learnt Vulnerability it's a sign...

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Categories: tough love, anti bullying, depression, life,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Competing In Tough Love Markets
We often think of how best to compete in a very tough love market. How to look and smell and sound our healthiest and highest commodified use to attract the interest of others with both similar and diverse sight and hearing and fragrance of trusting radically profound beauty; A hot package but also with a warm compassionate and curiously nimble heart. Love's core of becoming co-arises truths with...

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Categories: tough love, beauty, culture, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry

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