Drudging Poems - Poems about Drudging

spring into it

...Spring semester has started.
We’re all immersed in the ritual of change
and totally committed to that descent into madness
to the relentless drabness, the flatness, the blandness
for the hours, d...

Defiance

...Cling not, to currents of kleptocracy.
Seek not, slithering shortcuts.
Like molding wood in molten guts -
Revolutionary, make that your story. 

Slanderous slogans of snakes
dull deep, deaden d...

Powerful Togetherness

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Written: December 11, 2023
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While drudging impresses to cease,
        Within the ethereal forbearance of night
        And the c...

Sister

...
for Judy, who stole my heart before I could part with my fears

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?”—Alice Walker.

Not my sister, yet it felt
Li...

Just Rain At Dusk

...those drudging blues
spat upon by smudging greys
pulsating with suns
sinking tendrils
rains might has bent each leaf head
and from its benevolent praise
nights perfume cloud
slowly infiltrates...

Gloomy

...
It’s a gloomy day ~
All the clouds are grey
They seem in dismay
Sun’s not come to play
The wind does not stay
The leaves do not sway
No charming display
A drudging weekday
What ...

A Jackson

...The pearl-gray sky of early morning
harmonized with my mood;
color without color
life without meaning;
as I wandered through the streets
at a loss; no job.

My downcast eyes;
eye contact unso...

Don'T Even Think About It

...Imagine this- you are on earth, seeing everyone's heartbreak and love for you  and you try to apologize to them and plead that they listen to you then you realize they can neither see not hear you. O...

Never Made Dinner

...It's a tale of a hero
And his sale as zero
He held his hopes in the morning
And end in the blend of the moaning

He had hopes of a champion
He used the strength of a stallion
His toiling visib...

Tortured Souls

...Drudging at the foot of despondency 
I dwell
floating in-between the far and the now
too tired to stand
knowing I'll be knocked back down
kicked and beaten 
by my own inner beast
a feast of un...

Thundering

...A silence
Drawing
Drudging
Driving
Drumming
Drilling
Louder than
A drone
Rushing like a river
A mill
A power plant
In a hurry
Wild with fury
Roaring past
Resounding
Late for the 
End ...

Swim Away--

......Quietly commands the waters,
swiftly like a dead sailor;
Why does the tuna smell?
Small, stormy ships calmly command a warm, 
Dolphins laugh and chatter;
What happens and where is ...

Dawn

...Black is the night filled with fright.
The darkness hiding things from sight.
 A pain inside, such a feeling you cannot hide.
 Overwhelmed by emotion, can’t shake the notion.
 Eyelids sharp as ra...

Mama's Diary, Part I

...I was a “why child”
but unlike many others
didn't ask my questions
right out loud
for they never elicited satisfaction-
only bizarre grown-up reactions
discomfort shown
in odd looks or awkward...

Hope

...HOPE

Oh, I have landed myself in a bad way
It is a
              very
                         very 
                                       dark place I am stuck.
Alas, a friend lets me now t...

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