Troughs Poems - Poems about Troughs

Glimpses

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The grass waved hello
the birds called back.
Telegraph poles stood still 
like tall slender trees.
the birds liked that.
the crickets a constant tickle in the ear,
swathes of brown grass boun...

Trident of Living

...Yesterday is wrapped loosely
in the barbs and silky vapor of memory
Tomorrow is a Mahogony wall of steep hope 
slippery anxiety -
the what if ascensions and virtual vertical falls
the Present is...

Glass seeds

...Life is a starburst gift 
conceived in the gilded soil of angel hearts. 
Living on the other hand thrives in the salty eyes of swells and troughs
needles woven into bike bells and ice cream cones....

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...

Memories Buried In Time

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My migratory mind indomitably mobile,
recedes with the ebb of time, seeks the shore of the past,
as the spirited surfer on the wandering waves of life, 
surging on curled crests carrying the f...

Trials of the Sea

...A scenic blue are ocean’s crested waves
with tufts of white that spill in feathered sprays
amidst the troughs and valleys of the sea.
Will time or tempest bring God back to me?
 
Horizons hold n...

Moon Spoon Serenade

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Written: March 3rd, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

Quote" There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it". By Rumi

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Life's troughs

...no more time
to shed
tears

no more lies
to feel
truth

no reason
to be
nice

nothing left
to fear
loss

no vision
to see
God...

In Spring

...In Spring

In spring water troughs 
fart all the 
musical notes, butterflies go to 
Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit 
bulldogs, placemats collect bits of 
string to 
make balls, lich...

A New Year Wish - Intrinsic Motivation

...Intrinsic motivation 
The cogs to elevation
To tick over and over
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock 
To persevere, persist and permeate 
Whatever life may throw 
To ride the peaks & troughs
Till a perfec...

Green Water Avalanche

...T -shirt man took his cell phone for a walk
his mutt, was just a four-legged after-thought
sniffing out an angel from the wildflower troughs...
but T-shirt man jerked him by the neck
over and ove...

I Invoke the Sandman

...I forgot how to endure,
Having relied on external things.
Decades lost to troughs, filling anxious voids with nonsense thoughts.

I forgot that I am.
Forgot how I always was.
This night, I ...

Drunken delight

...Pleasant pulsations manifest;
boons bestowed by bliss magnetism,
wherein troughs, which once were the crest,
biding their time in body prism,
resurrect at our heart’s behest,
creating for us a n...

The Midas Mind

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The migratory mind indomitable,
the spirited surfer on surging waves of life, 
creates the curled crests of fractured moon,
and the dark troughs of sinking fallen stars.
The swell rec...

The Only Ride That’s Free

...Live to work or work to live?
C’mon, let’s get this over with
The money’s stashed in the couch near the TV
Let’s get going on the only ride that’s free

Don’t believe that old thing they say
Th...

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