Best Trudged Poems

Mind softened, 
watching fusions 
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming 
             ...

Read more of this work...

Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds...

Read more of this work...

PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

Read more of this work...

The balmy breeze wafted over the prairie,
Where yellow cowslips huddled in patches.
And here and there I heard a whisper echoing:
Love her, love her, love her.

...

Read more of this work...

The little girl stood outside the candy store
Pressing her nose against the window
Her lips wet 
Trying hard to swallow
What the sight of those candies 
Produced...

Read more of this work...

hanging in the air
humidity’s heaviness . . .
the river’s slow crawl


On the Mississippi lies the beautiful little city where I once lived. How many times...

Read more of this work...

My ordinary life -
like the plain stretching across the region of my birth,
has been for the most part
 rather smooth.
Though sometimes on my path, I’d...

Read more of this work...

For many years I trudged along
   (but in my heart there was a song)
         through...

Read more of this work...

Cold the winter's sun, in haze enveloped
   Ice crystal's daggers atop the glistening snow
Still his once-beating heart, portals shuttered
   Stopped his...

Read more of this work...

I wrote a great book, part memoir, part novel
Shopped it around, I ain’t too proud to grovel
Got kicked upstairs to a big publishing head
He invited...

Read more of this work...

A magic mirror told the queen that Snow White was the fairest in the land!
This put Her Majesty in a terrible snit and to the...

Read more of this work...

when life’s path
was wide and long
our dreams and goals
were one and strong

we got engaged
and then we wed
and opened doors
that lay ahead

and when rules changed
in life’s...

Read more of this work...

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

I’m giving up, can’t take no more, I’ve reached the final straw,
How do you find a flamin’ job when you’ve turned...

Read more of this work...

My penchant for writing was showing
The comments I received were ‘glowing’
But at the end of the day
I get another N/A
My success in contests is slowing!

WRITTEN...

Read more of this work...

Ode to the Unsung Hero

I salute the devotee of his craft
who diligently pursued perfection
with no recognition
but remained true to himself
and trudged along but lost 
to...

Read more of this work...