Short Mired Poems

Attention mired in ego craving
Go in oh hermit, reclaiming bliss enlivening!

28-September-2020...

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Adorned feelings, inspired,
Nonchalance and serenity acquired,
Lucidity and clarity desired,
In ink, mired,

A forever-ignited fire…...

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The answer never welcome…
   ‘The Price Of Joy Is Pain’

A question forever mired
  —in perpetual disdain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Its answer never welcome…
   “The Price Of Joy Is Pain”

The question forever mired
   —in perpetual disdain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Mired in a quagmire
Of quicksand and sin
Why not forsake rayless
Dusk for the eternal
Dawn of blissful Bodhi?


All rights released into Public Domain...

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Republican head
Democrat heart
Mired in conflict
Forever apart
Symbiotic division
Zero Sum in intent
Mutual destruction
—broken not bent

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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Clinton's Presidential Albatrosses

Former President Clinton
Faced impeachment like Nixon.
Mired by Whitewater investigation most foul,
Also by a controversial spotted owl....

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Long ago and far away
  In a marsh of murky waters 
Did two young tadpoles play 

Mired deep inside the bog
  Succumbing to relentless fog
~ Divers only found a pair of frogs...

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All the neurons that misfired,
all the synapses blocked and mired,
all the random thoughts and fears,
all the head-bumps through the years,
all of us, of humanity,
are just a nudge from insanity....

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Summer heat ramps up.
My plans proceed in despair.
My spirit mired
~
My garden is parched.
I water plants as I can.
I fear some are missed.
~
They call out to me.
I can hear them in my dreams.
I sleep uneasy...

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Your head’s in the sand
  the canary at hand

The beggar inside you
  his kingdom commands

Mired in apathy
  lost in denial

One last Armageddon
  —the price of your wile

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Your head’s in the sand,
  the canary at hand

The coward inside you,
  his kingdom commands

Mired in apathy,
  lost in denial

One last Armageddon
  —the price of your wile

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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We see furtive looks
Mired in gluey fears
Their minds hypnotised
In ego bubbles
Imaginary

Help is at hand
In glowing heart
Each breath we take 
Offers fresh start

What to say
What to do
But to pray

Become
Empty

Now

29-December-2020...

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Limerick : Once a dashing Damsel with tough biceps

Once a dashing Damsel with tough biceps
Tried to bulge her pectorals with triceps
Compressed air back-fired
To where moon was mired
Since then carries pec-pumps in contracepts.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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I’m not wishful anymore
or here to ride the wave
My feet both mired in aging mud,
my heart now turned away

I’m not here to save the world,
nobility be damned
Time on trial my last denial
—on distant Ronan land

(Henderson North Carolina: October, 2021)...

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separating wheat from the chaff
we laugh at our gaffe
being spirit and not mind-body
sometimes mired in thoughts shoddy
so refining consciousness bit by bit
threefold flame of Christ in heart lit
we delight beholding form transform
swept away in a benign bliss storm...

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Death, the inevitable
a path we follow
stepped out in paces
intervals by chance
no escape, the icy tendrils.

In its wake,
swallowed by the vortex
enveloped in grief
mired to a past.

Time brings salvation,
it's healing rays
thaws the heart
from shallow grave....

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Love has been lost
Pleasure is my mired domain
All that I could say
Falling away 
Lust wretches my face
My life shall waste....

Taken from you
All of those things that you've consumed
Each trace of the flesh
You cannot see
What you've left with me,
All alone......

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When churches of honor decay

                    Mired in cynicism's wet glue

                    She splints the feet of hobbled faith

                    To believe as the unbroken do.


          
9/27/20

For 'Writing Challenge - Decay' contest
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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My life is merely a cardboard cut-out that just fell over... 
Lies and nothing more...
Been acting like things were good...
Like I wasn't walking out the door...
I realized as it all fell apart, 
how fragile life can be...
How opaque, extreme, mired and cold...
In a prison, yet you're free......

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The earth form born, will one day die
Why then do we, in deep grief sigh
Ephemeral not eternal
What makes us then delusional

Moment to moment in stillness 
We recognise true being-ness
Yet mired in attachments, we grieve
How may we, threads of clear truth weave

(syllabic rhyme)

21-January-2021...

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Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh—a genius artist par excellence  
As most famously he was known to all,
Whilst mired deep in shades of a frenzied, frantic confusion 
Slices off his left ear he does—faster than he could slice a pear!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
December 15, 2018 (Clerihew)...

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Forgive the beastliness
As born with, earth-sired;
Charges, unchallenged, thereaft
Conditioned, earth-mired.

Woman, soft eyed, soft voiced
Know this, pitieously
What each such, a man at heart
Seeks out, needily.

Against these advances
Appeals to soothe, tame
Resistless, have worship-dropped
Gods of warring fame!...

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Dreams within dreams
offer us this cue:
what are doing therein
as our attention renews

Baton of our awareness
reins in hands of thought:
are we unbound & free
or mired in a narrow slot

Consciousness expanding
as of innate affinity:
is our reflex instinct distinct
bliss enlivened in continuity 

27-September-2020...

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Loud we sway, those battle hymns
raunchy in bare light
Boulders broken are thrown wispy 
Celebrating day
Some have lost pebbles, dancer's
glowing method
at last fortune

Blows us bare to rust mired blue
Our poison palms
Heavy coughs let moist unto
Salivation ringing
Whereby lust so proud gathers
Beneath potent sky
on borrowed time...

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