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Best Slough Poems

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Premium Member Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow 

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Categories: slough, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Shedding Thin Skin
Held unyielding in your narrow mind
is the ignorance which keeps you blind.
Building dams will only hold you back
from accepting that white is not black.
Like a...

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Categories: slough, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Wreath of Time
A slough of love
serenading moonlight
A snowball chance in a dream
Buffalo riders playing rodeo
A lovers touch in spring
petrified on time
Absent friends
on the wreath of time...

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Categories: slough, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Downcast In the Rain
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Categories: slough, imagery, missing you, rain,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, Sitting
So many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing 
January's record accumulation.

Weeks of hour...

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Categories: slough, death, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Egal
Egal your hurly-burly city,
Egal your stress bureaucracy;
Saturday I shall visit my garden,
Where I will bury all your plights
Like a slough snake long forgotten.

There await me...

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Categories: slough, city, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slough, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Halloween Ghouls
HALLOWEEN GHOULS 


Run as fast as your legs can move 
Move much faster,this's no time to prove 
You're so brave and not scared of any...

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Categories: slough, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Chirping Dawn
Flying, jumping from this bough to the bough
Chirping sharp, calling the friends over slough
The foggy smokes are walking away slowly
For the adult winter the rising...

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Categories: slough, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Should I Wow You
SHOULD I WOW YOU

Should I essay to wow you I trow
That my words shall be honest I vow
No mere rhymes such as ‘How now brown...

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Categories: slough, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Pruning
deadhead any grudges
slough off wilted feelings
instill a will to replenish
what was lost with more
abhor stagnation
regain greater growth

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Categories: slough, change, death, garden, growth,
Form: Free verse
Coy To His Mistress
When two people fall in love,
   there's one thing that they long to do.
It's true for birds and bees and doves,
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Categories: slough, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Coasting
I pretend I'm alright
And put my best stance forward
Wear my brave face
Tryin to be smooth
Just tripped on my shoelace
What's a girl to do

Busted, razed, flat...

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Categories: slough, anxiety, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mastering My Life
The day was short and I was tall,
oops, got that backwards after my fall,
for I was mixed up and worried,  befuddled I say
on this...

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Categories: slough, addiction, adventure, age, career,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Nit Picks and Picnics
~~Upon the banks of big piney slough,
   I recall a picnic with old blue,
   and my granddaughter at age two.
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Categories: slough, funnydog, dog, granddaughter,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs