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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 MemberFAITH 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



Silent Mission

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Glass shattered Saturday afternoon tea for  S I L E N C E

holding steady raven momentum for its own  r i p p i n g
fire from heartbeat slashes its void to tumble wounds of ...
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Categories: quagmires, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWays 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 MemberUnto 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 MemberQuagmire

...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 MemberSighting 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 MemberDeep 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 MemberRagged

...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 MemberWatering 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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