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Quagmires Poems - Poems about Quagmires

My mercurial mind
...Never at rest, ever restive like shifting sands of the desert, my mind is a labyrinth of quagmires and booby traps, you step on it and you’ll either be sucked in or blown to smithereens… ......

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Categories: quagmires, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO APPEARS TO US BY FAITH TO BUILD OUR LIVES
...May 11 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 3-5 Key Verse – 2Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appear......

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Categories: quagmires, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain



BREAKING THE SILENCE : NO MORE
...BREAKING THE SILENCE : NO MORE Sponsored by Ink Empress Glass shattered a Saturday afternoon tea ~ Silence holds steady black fleeced momentum for its own ripping when lightning as whi......

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Categories: quagmires, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Ways Of The World
...Shadow black blood floods flow silently wailing in whirlpools Volcanoes of endless enmity erupt with vengeance. It's not humanness. Here, the mores of 'might is right' rules Against routing quagmi......

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Categories: quagmires, life, world,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unto Zion
... Unto Zion I go to find my soul Journeying through Heavenly Abodes, where the Path is Electric like a Thunder Storm and True Jerusalem Ascends Forth, Ever-Upwards where the Sacred Resides ......

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Categories: quagmires, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Quagmire
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, environment, life, nature, weather,
Form: Sonnet
Silencing Sonance
...Bewildering static frames the soulless— restlessly habitual, as crippled philosophies efflux amidst stunted swells, cracked and parched despite ocean whorls that coat wayward sentiments, ......

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Categories: quagmires, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sighting Through the Crosshairs
...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 ......

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Categories: quagmires, 12th grade, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Before, Remember
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, 12th grade, allegory, religion,
Form: Rhyme
A Political Diet
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, humor, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Deep Beneath the Ocean
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ragged
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, angst, birth, life,
Form: Free verse
The Melancholy and the Pale Machinery Part Iv
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watering Gaian Grace
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, caregiving, community, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Ink To Paper An Un Quatrainal 19nov17
...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......

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Categories: quagmires, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse

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