Best Doldrum Poems

life is a feather on the wind ~ fallen from a sparrow who's not sinned

borne and adrift upon the air ~ brushed away like a...

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Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I...

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Clad in doldrum
with yarns of fuchsia

hemmed here & there
twisted amidst the layers

& simulacrum

esoteric verse
slicked in ethereal

& outvying
of vehemences, I goad

to scatter zeal
into the waves 

grand...

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OMG this is what I think as I am reading? 
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with 
rancid rhyme scheme...

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Assuming hand from above
guiding fretful pinioned glove
past waltzing pines and drunken oaks,
cheerful friends yet frightened folk.
Swelling fear puffs spotted breast,
no watchful eye, no woven nest.
Sharply...

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Close-cropped, careless cast,
Body blunted by each week's
Doldrum-diving fast....

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Colourful fanciful with myriads of mirage
Hidden in public glare
The more you look the less you see
Opened in hidden trenches
The more you dig the less you...

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I wave vaguely toward a boat in the distance, but
can't think of what I would say if they invited me on board.
"That seems excessive kindness,"...

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ROUTINE


There’s an enroute
To everything
A direction God
Gave us to trek
You and I have to prove
Make the most out of it.

Life has to begin
Its travails
Sometimes not in
Consonance...

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Clawed eyes bleeding the red acid of tears
Anguished hearts with piper's music in their ears
Pleasures throves of greed and selfishness
Indicts our vision of the citadel's...

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Villanelle : Lodged in our cockles Aladdin lamps hum

Lodged in our cockles Aladdin lamps hum
   Always to heart stings awakened to soothe
That in...

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Either Top To Bottom or Side to Side

When his mind had become hemispheric
He then could write great rhyme or lyric
Of things in his mind that...

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the troglodyte span
                      
...

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I
am
lost in your hands
lost to your
smile
lost to the world
Gone

Gone from your sight
out of this world
We are not
Intertwined
Imperceptible
to
loves eternal
promise

My withering heart
is a broken part
Relationships
are what
I am...

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It’s a recurring thought–
Over and over again–
echoing in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like...

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