Best Languor Poems
I Experience Languor Getting AuldAs 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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Categories:
languor, 12th grade, absence, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Languor AfternoonsLanguor Afternoons
David J Walker
I
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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Categories:
languor, allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
languor, emotions, weather,
Form:
Haiku
Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My HeartIl 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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Categories:
languor, french, hate, heart, love,
Form:
Verse
EnnuiThe 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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Categories:
languor, character, feelings,
Form:
Free verse