Slough Poems - Poems about Slough

The Wabi-Sabi of Tintern Abbey

...Things bloom more beautiful when breaking down.
The nave now ploughs through foams of flowering trees,
a frozen caravel.  Kissed by the breeze,
the river surface suddenly seems to frown
exquisite...

Dweller of Our Heart

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Written: August 02, 2025,  
 
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There is a palimpsest etched in our bones,
Our dyspneic fire, a palingenesis hone—
A solar sprout rising from...

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
...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Look Ahead

...When breathless pain of sorrow 

                          Steals the joys of each tomorrow

                                        Look ahead.

                          Echoes peeling...of l...

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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