Best Languor Poems

As a bouncing baby boy
syne of tragic travails in the offing tolled
courtesy analogous bell think Pavlov's employ;
yours truly me mama's apron strings rolled
secure around stubby fingers brought joy
created and garnered webbed wold
between she who helped beget me thru ploy
constituting biological reproduction.

Peter Pan syndrome
not recognized as...

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Languor Afternoons
David J Walker

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The odd stone was a family heirloom 
And a friendly oracle 
Always quietly 
thinking of the future
Collecting visions of the past

I stared for hours 
Before I asked 
for its wisdom
It would simply smile
		But only for a while
Before returning to its mineral leanings...

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Heat ... Humidity … 
   
   Sultry …  Steamy… Stifling 

      Languor … Lingering...

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Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”)
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town;
Heavy languor and dark
Drenches my heart.

Oh, the sweet-sounding rain
Cleansing pavements and roofs!
For my listless heart's pain
The pure song of the...

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The ballast of our Thursday afternoon
in the countryside lays distilled in your face.
Yawning like a cow in pasture eating sweet grass
your words flatten the moment.
Having no capacity of knowing
what you might see in an endless sky
you have seemingly died from boredom.
Your small dreams have squandered...

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