Short Bogged Poems

if only a rainbow would grace the sky — bearable Noah’s ark

1/18/2019...

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Try to Live for the Moment

Why relive the past?
Why worry about the future?
Each new day has its own promise
Why get bogged down in what can’t be changed?
I just try to live for the moment.
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Stephen Hawking was bogged down in space.
Just one eye moved around in his face.
But in spacetime he leapt
like a quantum and kept
all of us far behind his great pace....

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Bogged down in the details,
truth is undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
milk overruns

Looking at the forest,
seeing just trees

Life micromanaged
—big picture tease

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Bogged down in the details,
  truth comes undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
  milk overruns 

Looking at the forest,
  seeing just trees

Pieces micromanaged,
 —big picture tease

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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True courage is a firm and steady rock
Amid the quicksand of sinking despair
If you are bogged down with worry and care
And really wish to get away from there
Stand on the rock and get out of the muck








envelope quintet
(a,b,b,b,a, rhyme scheme
10 syllables per line)...

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I walked without her through a tentacled forest. Skulls broke beneath butters. A scarlet-and-gold clad Legionnaire, unequipped for darkness, richer than Deutsch chocolate. A lance bogged in moist marsh. Stripped bare and skull dragged, I broke free, into the forest. I walked there, without her....

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A thousand miles to go,
I wander on the mysterious paths of life
Believing in the divine
Bogged down by the strenuous journey,
Yet unabashedly marching forthright.
Challenges, fears, troubles, I overcome,
Grow, look back, perplexed, at the momentum
At which I conquer the demons of my fate....

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Many a dream
    of virtues eventually

get bogged down
    by the weight of the worldly,

ensnared by the foul fangs
    of the profane,

swallowed whole
    by the maw of the mundane;

yet, there are those
    who boldly persevere,

who, by their lives,
    improve our now and here....

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The thing about being alive
Is knowing we are bogged down
We struggle to overcome
And sometimes we succeed
But we often see the best in ourselves
In the trying

Bravery is in accepting
Wishing is the fool’s refuge

Chance dare’s us
To shine temporarily

Our bequest
Is their memory

©dbyrne april 3013...

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Bogged down at a red light. 
At Ascension cemetery and St. Mary's drive
I gazed a graveside service.
The mourners spaced few and far between,
mostly in black-still as wet granite.
All were covid masked... properly. 
   
The newly departed performed social distancing-flawlessly.
My prayer was answered when the light turned halo green....

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In times like these,
Where to find peace?

World under lockdown,
By fear, people bogged down,

They say it's a virus,
It sure does perspire us,

Many deaths have been caused,
Our round-the-clock lives are paused,

Yes, it's the last days,
Rapture will soon take place,

In God alone we have our hope,
Through His peace alone, we cope.

04.21.2020...

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Have you ever been
Bogged down
Wallerin in
All whopper-jawed
Neck deep in it
That's a boonedoggle

Have you ever been
So katty-whompus
That you sold your mule
To buy a plow
That's a boonedoggle

Have you ever seen
Folks fixin and piddelin
Like a dime
Holding up a dollar
That a boonedoggle

Favorite Word Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
8/15/19...

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I travel all around the world
And I am loved by boys and girls
But when I travel I take no luggage
I am not bogged down by baggage

Like little Jack Horner 
I am usually kept in a corner
I wear many  faces  but I am not a spy
I can be Queen Victoria, or a  butterfly

I am almost 200 years old
My many colors  include blue and gold
I can be bought and sold
In your hand I can hold
       What am I ?...

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I SEE THE BEND

When I'm bogged down by fears, 
Crumbling under life's great load,
When I'm blinded by tears 
Nearing the end of the road, 

Then my God interferes,
As my True Friend on the road,
He carries me and cheers,
I feel His mercy bestowed;

When He's LORD of all spheres,
It's not the end of the road, 
My mind's fog disappears,
I see the bend of the road.


01~12~17
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Let not my mind be 
                       bogged down by the 
                       darkness of avarice, jealousy
                       ego and conceit; instead 
                       Let the 'Light' of thoughts 
                       of 'Service to suffering humanity 
                       pervade my heart and mind
                       on this day of auspiciousness, 
                       Deepavali....

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Harry, a tiger salamander stole a woman’s blackberry
Quickly swam with it out to the bogged down Derby ferry
He was chased by a great crested newt named Terry
Terry wanted the device for his Great Aunt Mary

Mary heard of this and said to her brother Larry
Who wants an obsolete stupid antiquated blackberry?
Larry did not tell her, but he had hired Terry
To steal the blackberry back from the tiger salamander Harry....

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A plant I thought was dead is not;
It needed water, quite a lot.
Yet from its soil, I’d have bet
That it was moist or even wet.

It made me think that people, too,
May not be what you thought you knew
For those bogged down by stress or strife
Might be, with care, brought back to life.

The trick is knowing what they need,
Though some attention’s guaranteed
To even reach the ones most glum,
Despite the lack of verdant thumb....

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