Quagmires Poems - Poems about Quagmires

...Marshy, muddy, like the alluvial soil after rains Slippery, clutching, quaking, and giving way underfoot Pulling the solitary wayfarers with vein-nerve strains Pets and cattle, as though sailing o......Read the rest...

...Bewildering static frames the soulless— restlessly habitual, as crippled philosophies efflux amidst stunted swells, cracked and parched despite ocean whorls that coat wayward sentiments, ......Read the rest...

...Our Constitution, page-by-page, provides a guide from age-to-age. As citizens our views consist of strict or loose constructionists. Yet, we should keep - we can agree - a free, but just, society ......Read the rest...

...Before you turn those sacred pages, And corner me to a sinner's numbness, And strike the balances as raged sages, Remember I have touched holiness. Before you strike similes with a smile, And ma......Read the rest...

...Lives a poet in the United States Who's sick and tired of insolent ingrates She went on a diet And thinks you should try it It doesn't involve the food on your plates You're not allowed to tal......Read the rest...

...The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles, More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal rhythms. From t......Read the rest...

...Ragged Ragged heartbeats, Shut in But not Shut out, Tattered heartbreak, Tragedy Flung From high towers Swooping down in towering tornados Descending Ascending from foul marshes......Read the rest...

...Of pale melancholy And the infinite fall Of broken machinery Cast upon vast shores Decimation reservation The prodigal son returns Jagged reigns of jaded egos Amber suns stretching upon......Read the rest...

...One of the least talked about, yet most problematic issues for regenerating Global social-psychological mental and physical health and public safety movements Well fed and watered to e......Read the rest...

...On an empty page, my quill Does not sit to quench Its thirst to lessen this quandary To let, nay make, quintessential Inroads, biding thy quiver Of lexiconical bolts; queuing And firing for......Read the rest...

...The powers that be, undefined, ruthless, opaque authority Shapeless, bodiless, upstanding folk, coercing the majority Overseeing applications, supplications, ensuring conformity Specialists in ......Read the rest...

...Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight The sun sank low on the darkening horizon Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me With my horse’s pace ......Read the rest...

...we settle into our lonely together dozens of adrift souls drifting through the city on half-worn brake pads ears turned away from keening car neighbors they catterwaul louder than the notes......Read the rest...

...The gravity of the wave of deceit has pulled political integrity To its lowest ebb and flow, smothering morality with quagmires Of electorial power abuse and sarcastic expositions of vanity. Repub......Read the rest...

...Experience v Theory, like Both/And inducted feelings v. Either/Or deductions, like Internal Information v External ReConstructions, like Memory v ReImaging, like Cause/Effect v DNA of causal-effe......Read the rest...