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Best Doldrum Poems


Premium Member Mortality Smothers
...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 stray strand of hair

fragile wanderer in doldrum streams ~ illumin......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member I Am
...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 am mired in confusion.
Sometimes ......

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Categories: doldrum, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zealous Waves
...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 ......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, analogy, appreciation, character, deep,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member In the Fecal Folly of the Scheme of Things Puke Poetic, Sorry
...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 redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting 
w......

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Categories: doldrum, adventure, dedication, judgement, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
First Flight
...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 ......

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Categories: doldrum, bird, flying, freedom, nature,
Form:
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...Close-cropped, careless cast,
Body blunted by each week's
Doldrum-diving fast.......

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, age, depression, jobs, life,
Form: Haiku



Masquerade
...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 uncover


Clothed more in shades of ......

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Categories: doldrum, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Part Two: Escape From Pandemic
...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," I say, but a voice laughs in my head,
"Yeah, but the......

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Categories: doldrum, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Villanelle: Lodged In Our Cockles Aladdin Lamps Hum
...Villanelle : Lodged in our cockles Aladdin lamps hum

Lodged in our cockles Aladdin lamps hum
   Always to heart stings awakened to soothe
That in lost coves and caves melodious strum

When in dark l......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, fantasy, lost, lost,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member What Makes You Feel
...Topic.2

when my friend drifted, despondent I grew, drowning into dull doldrum.......

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Categories: doldrum, friend, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form: Monoku
Capitalism Dilemma
...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 shining
Towards a bette......

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Categories: doldrum, political
Form: Acrostic
Routine
...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 to......

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Categories: doldrum, life
Form: Free verse
Gone
...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 ......

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, angst, life, passion,
Form:
Premium Member Hazard
...the troglodyte span
                      
                 scribbling doldrum brain power
      
                                   the halcyon days......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, allusion, analogy, power,
Form: Haiku
Either Top To Bottom Or Side To Side
...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 had become
Works equaling to total of each sum.

......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, encouraging,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry