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Muddiest Poems

Enough

...I've been to dark places
I've lost myself and all the basics
I've crawled on my hands and knees
Fighting to stand up again 

Gritting my teeth
Tears down my face
I will never be the same
No o...

Categories: muddiest, confidence, dark, i am,
Form: Free verse

Homegrown Blackberries Rule

...Recalling how chiggers can itch
I'll still cross the muddiest ditch
the biggest blackberries to find.
Deet sends most critters to their niche.

Wrestling briers, a path I'll stake
while dreamin...

Categories: muddiest, 11th grade, angst, boyfriend,
Form: Quatrain

Unsettling Feeling

...I just can’t get over this unsettling feeling
 That has my spirit reeling
I just cannot get over this unsettling feeling
That keeps me yearning
If someone had hit me with a stone
Then I would ha...

Categories: muddiest, betrayal, community, conflict, divorce,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Thank You Women

...Women rise not only when needed but when noticing
Things need to be changed, 
Wanting more fairness, more community, 
Inspired by hope, and joy, 
Wanting to better the future for their children's...

Categories: muddiest, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Brother Mine

...by Dawne Zacharias

He came to me in tears
A plane of thin weightless wood
Fit together by a center groove
A propeller with a rubber band to wind
“Where is it?” I asked

He pointed, “over the...

Categories: muddiest, brother, cry, feelings, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Rainy Play Day

...Slosh Sploshes
in my Galoshes
reveling in the rain

Muddle Muck
I am a Duck
and cannot be contained

Flap Slap
something Madcap
waddling soaking wet

My mother says
I am the Muddiest
th...

Categories: muddiest, assonance, childhood, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Red Lotus

...oh, the immaculate red lotus
the queen of flowers
the seat of buddhas
tell me, this grown-up foetus
the secret of your excellent status
in spite of the trotting trend
that you grow in the muddi...

Categories: muddiest, change, character, future, growing
Form: Free verse

Julie

...There was a girl that no-one knew her name
Everybody took for a silly little game

Every day she was crying
Every day she was lying

Until one day, she found a place to hide
And then she tried to com...

Categories: muddiest, life, lonely, pain, sorrow,
Form: Couplet