Slogging Poems - Poems about Slogging

Slogging Through the Riff-Raff

...Fender-bender over there,
the traffic is awful,
ain’t not space left in the lot,
that’s such a load of bull,
and the punch-in barely works,
that’s almost criminal,
this is how we all start the ...

my muse

...
finally shut her trap,
did the job
of being herself,
letting me
observe
in the quiet—
god, 
the yapping
made her, 
too human
it's like she thought
she was the artist.
now look:

line ...

Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...

Cauht Under a Fallin Sky

...
A scything rain crops the high reeds.
Never saw the storm coming,
too busy rowing my mind
through its own river.

The ducks and herons have all gone
they have not flown away,
they ha...

Sorrows Lure

...
The Aspen quaked in mild calm.
A stream nearby sent riffled song.
This trail less trod now almost gone.
‘Twas barren once now grown quite long.

Around a bend and down a steep
therein the bru...

The Love Song of Frederick Usher

...Haunted towers and fallen houses,
Tell tales with bricks and mortars:
Of scions spun by sprouts of spouses,
Slogging limbs for quarters.

Each day is spent in catalepsy,
Metabolized days in sec...

The Daily Star Thursday issue

...The Daily Star Thursday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun 
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post M...

I Resolve

...

**not to start lying in wait to exact revenge on those
who cruise down my little street late at night
playing outrageously loud rap music, 
jarring me awake and sorely testing my Christianity~...

Hemmed In

...The sky has climbed over
its usual low cloud cover,
today it is high, blue and vertical
with no hand holds,
those places for the eye to cling to.

In the city we don't get 'big sky'
we get pen...

Natural Soporific Narcotic

...Natural soporific narcotic

Recurrent suicidal thoughts 
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zea...

The Daily Star Tuesday Issue

...The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Ea...

Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications

...Dream state yields deep sleep personifications

Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
...

Letter To My Mother

...Realizing a fresh life growing inside, 
What thoughts coursed through your mind, 
I still wonder, oh dear my mom. 
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or respond to it with a violent shock?

So...

Waking Up

...A distressed soul
Rising from the grave
Slogging through the morning mist

10/04/2023...

No Way Out

...Slogging swampy bogs, suction at the feet
Like pushing through molasses with a spoon
No evidence of forward progress made

Mired in a morass of foul decay
Vile filth closing in on what once was
...

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