Torpor Poems - Poems about Torpor

...Just another long afternoon Of another long long day Mind numbing weariness That just won’t go away. My eyelids are heavy I just want to sleep For once no need To be counting sheep The cat i......Read the rest...

...“Activity makes my life colorful. To be quiescent is relaxing, but when it prolongs, I feel I am dead.” – By Poet Day after day passes With rarely a purpose to fulfill Thoughts a......Read the rest...

...Awakening It's not desire per say but the clinging ~ that stifles soul and stops heart from singing, but hindrances come from suffocation. Or may be en......Read the rest...

... Cold winds, the assassins of startled vegetation, blow in with late autumn. Snow arrives to cover the terrain with blankets of white, pristine feathery snow; meanwhile, some bodie......Read the rest...

...Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score – While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-ling......Read the rest...

...We noticed her at the feeder…hovering…and humming…she does not tweet a hummingbird in October….attentively watching all the other birds eat. So we put out our hummingbird feeder which immediately......Read the rest...

...Written: September 07, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ I can't sleep at night, so I stay alive. I am awake, and I search and strive. I'm no warri......Read the rest...

..."He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens." Carl Gustave Jung Be not manacled, bound or tightly tethered to a ......Read the rest...

...An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints......Read the rest...

...Convulsions with consciousness. Spasm and exaggerated sensitiveness. Alternate constipation and diarrhoea. Paralysis after apoplexy,parts cold,numb, and emaciated.Coldness of whole body and Ca......Read the rest...

...Personal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing Ever since mine late boyhood when unstoppable coded cellular processes did segue I experienced abhorrence toward yours truly, an ......Read the rest...

...After scary Halloween and its ghoulish pranks November dawns with all-saint’s and all soul’s day Carrying a pious note in the balmy wind Along with the haunting memories of our dear de......Read the rest...

...I would like to find something, perhaps a metaphor or a simile that would surprise and cut through the torpor, some volt laden charge of insight to jolt a nerve or to set a synapse off into a spa......Read the rest...

...As Rumple in blankets, I vegetate in unfilled torpor, Blind enervation adrift among Extinguished stars, among dark Torpid galaxies where I am a stranger. I find only dead planets, windswept an......Read the rest...

...Twas in September 2021, Cherbourg lost an uncle, and a country its son.' Bevan Costello, who worked for better, took a dose following advice to the letter' Trying the trust he'd built on for years,......Read the rest...