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Slough Poems - Poems about Slough

How Now Slough
... Although it’s a hard row to hoe a rough furrow to harrow and a tough trench to plough there’s many a meadow to mow I hereby avow and tho' it may be news to you farmers have the need ......

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Categories: slough, animal, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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Categories: slough, poetry,
Form: Free verse



What do you fear?
...It's a fresh day To play in a new way To convey each light ray More pray, no delay, fair pay We stay where we lay What can I say? Stand up, quit your sit Take a breath, rest a bit Ensure y......

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Categories: slough, destiny, dream, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Frozen side of the sun
...The sun having a frozen side~ a wish like a snowball in hell, or netting the wind while oceans b o i l in f i r e. The rage of its heat needs curtailing. I'm melting... like chocolate......

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Categories: slough, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snake Skin
... On a woodland path, a near perfect sloughed off snake skin, it scales glistening in bright morning light, its owner somewhere in a new season’s growth. Call it a rite of passage ......

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Categories: slough, extended metaphor,
Form: Didactic



No objection to cold weather, but
...No objection to cold weather, but... ah jest wanna boomerang back into the womb versus being threatened courtesy beastie boy gang beating me to a pulp after accurately discerning being s......

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Categories: slough, adventure, appreciation, color, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Virtual Reality
...All of me is open for review every moment spent in time with you, the wakening with the rise of the sun washing, dressing, breakfast on the run, warmly heated cars rushing off driving along t......

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Categories: slough, analogy, imagination, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Wreath of Time
...A slough of love serenading moonlight A snowball chance in a dream Buffalo riders playing rodeo A lovers touch in spring petrified on time Absent friends on the wreath of time......

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Categories: slough, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...A slough of moonlight Singing lost love songs A firefly playing rodeo A lovers reach in petrified time Butterflies, take it on this Summer night......

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Categories: slough, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swamp
...As I watch the rain coming down in measured bursts onto the dark waters of the vast bayou. My mind notes the watery circles and bubbles that trace alligators asleep in the slough. I check my line......

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Categories: slough, adventure, animal, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
A Sweet Secret
...A sweet secret Waves of depression without waste of opportunity, Trade with season of whiff of irritation, Worthy mentioned whirlwind of smoke, Animates to weight the wiles of innocence, Tra......

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Categories: slough, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Summer Sun
...Under the summer sun The sounding skin wears dun Hurling the beauty gathered in the winter Wrinkle with the hot of sun gather Like a dry ridges undone. Why! Why this season's life so tough? J......

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Categories: slough, summer,
Form: Other
Premium Member Look Ahead
...When breathless pain of sorrow Steals the joys of each tomorrow Look ahead. Echoes peeling...of l......

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Categories: slough, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Idiomatic Chicken Tale
...An Idiomatic Chicken Tale Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, you may bite off more than you can chew. But if you do count, make sure you have a bird in the hand rather than tw......

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Categories: slough, bird,
Form: Free verse
Coasting
...I pretend I'm alright And put my best stance forward Wear my brave face Tryin to be smooth Just tripped on my shoelace What's a girl to do Busted, razed, flat broke My foot slipped off the p......

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Categories: slough, anxiety, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

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