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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 ~ illuminated by moonbeams

floating on currents o'er the sea ~ never asks,...

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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 I feel I am a moth caught fast in the fire,
And about to be burnt, when...

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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 zeal
into the waves 

grand & unbiased

while perching with 
a quintessence unclasps

to the orbs thence
& the musings of yours
undying zest 

for morrowing unfolding

in yearnings
& beyond.

1St...

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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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 
word wormy willy wally whilst wonk wails 
worthless words in causal clits of  
I...

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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 nest.
Sharply shoved by hurried gust
and mistral maidens in a huff,
who twirl up toward yellow glare
to greet abashed doldrum air.
Green eye below,...

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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 grey
Preying on the public treasury
Fleecing the unassuming with
Alacrity akin to mediaeval thieves
Leaving the leaching wound


Letting...

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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 they'll never do that!" In its vacuum stare, a seagull
encourages...

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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 lonesome nights owl hoots knock glum
   None to hear silent...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doldrum, fantasy, lost, lost,
Form: Villanelle
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 better promise of togetherness.
Anxieties mounts against Babel's towers rising
Lattitude to pain, when will the chrysallis from
Imago change again...

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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 yours
Always God’s will is
the best.

But we fail to catch up
Underestimate His patience
Over desires humanly weak
Until we succumb to misdeeds.

Unwavering...

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Categories: doldrum, life
Form: Free verse
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
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 heart
is a broken part
Relationships
are what
I am running from.
I am gone
to my private Doldrum

My appetite for life
is gone
those
artificial
words
rest bitterly on my
laughing tongue
Nauseated
to all thats good
is who I've...

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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
...

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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.

Put a poem together and then combine
After having read all of it line...

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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