Sludge Poems - Poems about Sludge

...4/8/24 Aww shucks Still at the crux In a state of flux With reality still out of touch I've been puzzled much So I smoke a couple blunts That's a double dutch From dawn to dusk I turned my......Read the rest...

...The Naked brazen placid blue Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses Who unleashes his growing anger and fury Obliterating and defeating his enemy Proclaims a victory and unrolls his miserable ......Read the rest...

...You may be very wealthy and powerful, Yet you're doomed to fail like a fool, If you are on the wrong side of history, Where a deep sludgy hole is your final destiny. Hitler at one point found h......Read the rest...

... Time Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress 2nd Place --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Know the value of time… Whiling it away is ......Read the rest...

... Its beak is just above the black mud, head resting on the thick sludge. One black eye looks at us. There is no accusation in that gaze, no recriminatory stare not even a plea for res......Read the rest...

...I come home to great works of literature submerged in water Knee deep Dizzee Rascal at the Bull Ring The question is posed to my landlady Why Jesus? The books we've lost, included a variety of s......Read the rest...

...Climate Change Haiku by Michael R. Burch late November: climate skeptics scoff but the geese no longer migrate. The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct by Michael R. Burch Th......Read the rest...

... Abso-bloomin-lutely I'm yours Till the sky turns a pale shade of brown When pollution sucks the air from my lungs Won't feel like being a clown Abso-bloomin-lutely I'm yours Till t......Read the rest...

...Snow White has put on her grey sludge dress, turning from princess to drudge overnight, She is a pidgin that takes its ill-fed feathers to brighter patches of sky seeking less frozen crumbs. R......Read the rest...

...Fourteen is yawnful and staring, Lying around in pyjamas at noon, Wondering, ‘What to do?’ Then scooping and gulping some sludge From a tub in the fridge – Until a parent full of peeves, age......Read the rest...

...The windfalls have been trod and gnawed upon. A sweet sludge of pith is spread across a ripe carpet of cider scented soil. Here in late autumn, an amber painted orchard is the heady mulch of......Read the rest...

...Its beak is just above the oily mud. Head resting on the thick sludge. One black eye looks at us. There is no accusation in that gaze, no recriminatory stare, not even a plea for rescue. Only t......Read the rest...

...Written 22 December 2023 Forgiveness Poetry Contest Sponsored by Robert James Langouri Forgiveness Many a time I`ve been hurled down a ditch ......Read the rest...

... Unseasonal rain has kept the small pond half full of water. More than a hundred tadpoles crowd its weedy shallows which, by now, would normally be a dried out bed of sludge cracking u......Read the rest...

...The vulgar obtain degrees in sophistication, the sophisticated study vulgarity. Mice dress like men, and rats lead the wolves. No one is happy with their lot, that allotment given, or taken a......Read the rest...