Best Slog Poems

With virgin miles yet pining for tireless tread, 
You know a lot of hard travelling lies ahead; 
For the goal unclaimed stands beyond reach, 
Where triumph basks on the gleaming beach.

But the blistered feet do pinch with spiking pain, 
Immobilizing wounds that hatch soaring cramps;...

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Sanctuary at Dawn
by Michael R. Burch

I have walked these thirteen miles
just to stand outside your door.
The rain has dogged my footsteps
for thirteen miles, for thirty years,
through the monsoon seasons ...
and now my tears
have all been washed away.

Through thirteen miles of rain I slogged,
I stumbled and...

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Time is a sieve through 
which everything slips
what once mattered 
rendered meaningless
as our lifeblood drips 
onto the clay creating 
a muddy bog that in 
our well worn boots 
we wearily slog 
like tired Tommies 
in the trenches waiting 
with bated breath 
for the shrill sound...

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