Short Plodding Poems

Short Plodding Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Plodding by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Plodding by length and keyword.


Dinosaurs-A Triceratops

Dinosaurs-A Triceratops by Rick Rucker A triceratops, Plodding along so slowly, Suddenly he stops
Form: Haiku


Snail

Each morning without fail,
I see my little,brown-shelled snail,
Plodding along with his home on his back,
Leaving a long, tiny, silver track,
I think he likes blazing a trail.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Labyrinth

hazy memory recalls
muffled, echoing footfalls,
and, even a rat can learn,
just as I, again, discern,
plodding down cold empty halls,
stuck inside life's unseen walls, 
"oh no, another wrong turn".
Form: Verse

Premium Member Into Its Mocking Belly

the wind
breathes harshly
against my tired face

it tells me I'm finished but I keep going
on -- plodding, plodding 
onward into its mocking belly

if you're not moving forward in life
you're moving backward

Heart; How It Identifies With Its Surrounds

Sorrow draws its own heart
Out a pool, stagnant.
Quail-tracked this quag around
Hear its plodding sound.

Gladness, from out sunned airs'
Vital-zephyr flows.
Finch-traced this field about
Hear its zealous shout.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member A Long Trip

Life must be traveled with faith in tomorrow,
Though we can't be certain tomorrow will be.
There will be days we'll be plodding in sorrow,
But just as certain, some sunshine we'll see.
Accepting it all, will you travel with me?
Form: Rhyme

The Wave

boldly rushing and retreating,
plodding in and withdrawing,
unsure making up its mind,
pushing and then hesitating;

in the end nothing remains
of its brief, sorry existence,
but for the noise it created
with no difference made.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Journey of the Sunflower

Sun setting
sunflower growing wings
flying toward the pinkish horizon
praying for the warmth that it may bring.
Sun rising
sunflower plodding back to its plot
flashing its great yellow lion mane
smiling to the yellow children 
at a bus stop in the rain.

Premium Member Tongue Twister Time

His ponderous stature often mistaken for apathy
he patiently bore the feeble lash upon his thick hide,
plodding in the peaceful gait of his pachyderm ancestry.


Tongue Twister Line: Patiently the ponderous pachyderm plodded in peaceful apathy.

11/15/2016
Form: Verse

Hakuna metata

Hakuna metata

In the fields
of broiling air
plump lambs gambol.
The daytime star
smiles and whirs;
a lone tortoise toils
in plodding rhythm.
His docile baritone sings
the timeless chorus
“Hakuna metata!”
to fretting lions 
who grapple tousled 
and tangled.

Premium Member Drive Hard and Drive Fast Until

Camaro
                                Sleek, fast
                       Racing, flirting, streaking
                 Sexy, fine, cumbersome, chunky,
                    Plodding, plugging, inching,
                     Serviceable, dependable
                               Minivan
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Lance Out I Strike With Line Lickety Split Giddy Up Horse

Lance Out I Strike With Line LICKETY SPLIT GIDDY UP HORSE


L-   Lingeringly lively
I-   Instants in a jiffy
C-  Chop-chop
K-  Kwikly plodding
E-  Expeditious struck wit whip
Y-  Yippee ki-yay, giddy up horsey 


04/08/18  2018©

For contest Lickety Split
Sponsored by : Debbie Guzzi
Form: Acrostic

Waltzing Dawn

The estrangement of
a cruising day,
plodding onto the 
dormant senses.

Ancestral musings
strewn with monotonous
contours, 
faded into crevices 
of streaming melancholy.

Smudged against the
sugary tea,
dripping hair,
soiled feet,
the erroneous space between,
the cuckoo sang 
better.

Aftermath

There’s something stagnant in the day’s slow heat
It lies unnoticed by plodding feet

The air is there, though somewhat near
Hanging loosely in abated fear

But upon the wall the magpie sits
No scream or shout, but passing flits

Electric buzz of the cold hard screen
Reminds once more of what has been
Form: Rhyme

We the Arcane

We, the Arcane, plod along,
Our faith keeps us strong,
If folk listen to us,
There'd be Peace, no fuss,
Far better than a bomb,
Prayers unite with aplomb,
Peace now! Damn right!
No need to get uptight,
Cost annihilation,
Faith leads liberation,
our faith keeps us strong,
Humans, plodding along...
Form: Rhyme

Desolate Pathway

Unhurried, loose, easy 
Meandering, forlorn pathway 
Nightfall, greatness
Scenes, unfurl in obsess
Strolling byway, late day sounds
Dazzling splendors surround 
Among squeaking treetops crowned 
Seeing falling leaves, flicking 
Glimmering mist, crickets ticking 
With heavy steps, leisurely, plodding

Why Does the Wind Whisper Foreboding

why does the wind whisper
foreboding?
and the sky bid gloom upon me
though the sea has no love either
she holds back the ill tide of noon
warns me to seek high ground soon
though the earth tells me neither
of the flower embraced bee
still I wonder as I am plodding
why does the wind whisper foreboding?
Form: Rhyme

Recalcitrance

From a homemade
golden pen you went on
exploring,
the young erotica.
It was a moment of
the funeral, plodding
through the extinct memories
of misadventures.
Time had stood still
on the sea of faces.
The great wall of frozen
dreams brings a chill
in blazing sun of enigma.

A bridge becomes a
derived fossil !


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Memory of Youth

Chuckling coy damsels lurked behind iron curtains,
   And eyed the prodding boys in the plodding streets,
   Hunting hearts, beat when love is in the air,
   And consummated by the raging fire of passion,
   Colliding and swelling mounds of groundbreaking motion,
   Shielding and shedding the core coiling emerging
   volcanoes,
   A testimony to gyrating and spinning sinful
   world.

Slippers

I never wear slippers,
Though most people do;
I don't feel in need of
An in-the-house shoe.

When plodding around,
My feet often go bare
Or they're covered with socks
Which, in winter, is fair.

Though slippers look cozy,
They aren't for me
And that's just the way
That I want it to be.

We each have our preferences - 
Thus, I suppose,
If you happen to visit,
Expect to see toes!
Form: Rhyme

Death

Death you are a mystery profound
Different stories about you abound

You are most feared of all 
For you whole world is small

You are impeccable, immaculate at work
Plodding incessantly never you shirk

You are sudden, silent and quick
At opportune time lives you pick

You painlessly end all earthly life
Putting an end to every life's strife

In reverence, I bow unto you 
Oh Death! None can equal you
Form: Ode

Hope Is a Tireless Toddler

.

Hope is a tireless,
wide-eyed toddler
who happily drools 
at the thought of again 
taking tentative 

... steps.


         She sways sideways, 
         reels backwards,
         staggers forward, 
         falls down again
         on bruised 

         ... knees.


Again, she gets up, 
starts walking, plodding,
innocently undaunted, 
fumbling, tirelessly
toddling on tiny 

... feet.

.

Premium Member Plodding Footsteps Respect No Rhythm

  
	       plodding footsteps respect no rhythm
                 life’s forward tilt, a sneer
               what passes for ho or hum
                  sucks the vigor from its beer

                but complaints wear out
                   a million frowns
                and peeves are hope upside down

                So, on they trudge, footsteps plodding 
                   scuff life's wedding gown
Form: Rhyme

Alone

My mortality is speaking
Breaking words over my bed
A cracked ceiling for comfort
Speckled reflections unsaid

My mortality is speaking
Undaunted and unknown
Days numbered for posterity 
Chiseled into nameless stone

My mortality is speaking
Conspicuously confined
Patiently plodding
Stalking a paralyzed mind

My mortality is speaking
Breaking silence with death
Blinking in affirmation
This is my last breath
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Our Stupor

Life not quite simply black and white, my friend.
We wear many hats, chosen at random,
sometimes a saint, at other times a fiend,
as sways fickle attention pendulum,
with unconditional love shown seldom.
Plodding through life, like a dead man walking,
seeing not ego, silently stalking,
we suffer because we choose to suffer,
blocking divine light, within heart glowing,
gift of life ruined in frivolous caper.

03-April-2021
Form: Dizain

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