Best Mire Poems

The Balking Mire of Fanghandrath



‘Twas late when the misted veils
Suck and drew
‘pon the reeking fetters of claxon screams
Wailing echoed dismal to

Too late for lantern to pick a path
In the trickster passages
Of the boggish marsh
The Balking Mires of Fanghandrath

Where ‘oer the shake-ed sheaves domain
The Shadow Hunter...

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My tortured weary body aches,
While my minds bright embers aglow,
The songbirds of sorrow awaits,
Reaping dark empty seeds I sow.

Lost traversing aimlessly through,
The lush spring prairies full of life,
I seem to unknowingly choose,
Desolate vast tundras of ice.

A colorless empty wasteland,
Slows down my once wondrous journey,
Turning my...

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An Entire Mire

Found poem in my mind in an entire mire
It never had any desire to try and expire
And in my three fingers poem appeared
Before twilight of life I feared ever neared.

Was brilliant beginning of a writing career
That appeared before me exactly right here
Might forget...

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Mire Without a Quag 

There once was a mire without one quag
Who had happened to look like an old hag
And bag who surely was way beyond belief
On her shoulder held a gripe and also a grief.

As you can now see I forgot to add the...

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To touch a leaf upon a tree and watch it shiver with delight 
and when the sun comes out to play to watch it swing and sway 
To gaze at shades of verdant greens intoxicated by their light     
anticipating hugs of...

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Complaining, complaining
That is all you do!
Refraining, refraining  
From the flow of negativity!
You have caused a river of pessimism 
To enhance the essence of your life
The alignment of your words to the circumstances of life
Will shelter an unbearable image 
That will put you in a...

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Myre's Mire - Horror Poetry

they wanted my eyes
they wanted to see what I had seen
they longed to see what I had seen
to know how I laid bare my step
on sugar path
on foaming hill
in raging twist 
against the wind
to throw my stones across the land
to walk,...

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Spring buds
Bursting
Like popcorn stuck on sticks
Raising my perspective to
Gallivant
In knee-high tickle grass
Nested
In the strew of stony rocks
Festooned
With sphagnum and lichen
Frothed with droplets
Of glistening crystal lather
Moored in glade and rill
Plundered in claggy stodge
Boggy green and juicy with rain
The jaunt sloshes with plunger feet

Air raids above
Signal
Whirring wispy...

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Cleared Away Mire

Cleared away mire and started to aspire;
Goals started growing higher and higher;
Though am inept,
Mission did accept;
While we wish Trump would soon expire.

Jim Horn...

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somewhere
a head lays

on a bed
upon nudge hill

and laughs
at the rain

© Harry J Horsman 2019...

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I know not one
Who is not and cannot be 
The best of the world
And be in the world of the best

I know not one who is and cannot be
The joy of the world
And have the world of joy

And, I know not one
Who is not and...

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Written: April 21, 2024 For  Andrea Dietrich Andaree Contest

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Worry and stress weigh heavy on my spirit.
Lately, scowling is my lone licit!
Donning threads I don't desire.
I heave and...

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There was no place to wade
in the stagnant pools of Corona.
The virus sank our feet into the mire.
Help was on the way, as we submerged
into the cesspool....

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It is just another day
To be used as we like
To choose joy as our companion
Or embolden friction and strife

It is just another hour
To spend as we desire
To embrace love as a mentor
Or wallow in customized mire

It is just another minute
To be valued as a prize
To...

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Their sizes alone show an overshoe,
With heavy rains a hunger for them grew.
If I put them on earlier, pours due
But not normal men do; I tell you ‘Few.’

Boots never a wonder, even The New;
In me the sight of them sweet dreams slew,
Yet, if I lost...

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