Travails Poems - Poems about Travails

when it comes to the travails of the human heart logic is a poor study as Diogenes' wisdom gathers a lantern searching in vain there is a deeper reasoning among the bats gathered in the belfry ratiocination resting on a slippery slope grasping...Read the rest...

I saw a need For a time of repose Where I'd gather my Chicks in a crate Fretting for anything out of My power Has made me feel less Not so great So I rest and I pray Call...Read the rest...

These umpteen times I sought for answers, These many days I searched for a respite for my unwavering troubles, Clouded was my journey, Foggy was my pursuit, I ascended the ladder to the Divine, More were my assailants, Was...Read the rest...

~The road to happiness within trails where paths are paved with stones of sorrow! 11/12/21 Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...Read the rest...

What if the dead were meant to breathe? What if the birds were meant to be the supper Of the elders? The tapestry of our loins - a seizure What if the strength of man happens to be his...Read the rest...

Metaphorical troubled waters deluge pitched me to and fro, analogous to ghosts that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge, yours truly violently tossed impossible mission to experience refuge except when deeply engrossed between bound pages thick and juicy tome one garden variety generic bookworm doth ravish escape courtesy...Read the rest...

********* From my new blog.. Illuminations, Temptations, Life's Travails Endured Weep for Truth that man's inherent evil betrayed Zeus hurled lightning bolts, paradise dreams delayed; Intriguing words, those tales of mythological beasts Sirens tempt, alluring songs, dark orgasmic feasts: Man...Read the rest...

Like a pack of cards, Olympus fell. Like the spear of a great warrior, Senzangekhona has swallowed a stone! Who will bear the pain, Left on the heels of the archers. Whose strength shall our burden...Read the rest...

TRAVAILS OF A NON-INSOMNIAC Everything around was going peacefully and fine until a new family occupied the flat above mine. The cacophony at the day time is rather tolerable, but the noise that rattled the night is unbearable. When...Read the rest...

ALL NATURE GROANS AND TRAVAILS The winds are blowing through the trees, In autumn leaves fall rapidly. Tornadoes, typhoons, hurricanes All wreak their havoc, cause their pain. Earthquakes and fires and floods all come And leave so many without a home. All...Read the rest...

The future dubs. A pride is shattered. The philanderer moon sprawls over the candlewick. A ghost walks through the wall. A thin blade of grass, holds the sun for ransom. Fireflies flutter in head savagely. I was not able to sleep. What was the theme of the...Read the rest...

I traveled with Gulliver in his travails Often times involving in shipwreck- Or becoming prisoner of the Lilliputians of life. I sailed on the ocean of life- Getting marooned on an island called strife. I must live; but life...Read the rest...

The Doctor delivered the news like a Court Judge in a final death sentence verdict "You are HIV positive!" A the clinic corridor the Nurses had gathered Like Eagles converging on carcasses they fed fat on my 'pitiable' frame muterring and whispering in...Read the rest...

Trampling caused travails of a mare, Now hopping like a piece of flubber, While ambling with Sir Greyedalot, When he had honored the stables yesterday, She was taken out for a warm up, And she had truly ambled out, She...Read the rest...