Best Melancholia Poems

Manic Melancholia

He flew high as a kite with no ceiling concealing his madness

A hawker plying his trade with all prayers lost preying on reason

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It seems the rain is coming fast for me again—
The winter ice is drenched with more space to freeze;
Before and behind shadows, the clouds blind...

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In my morning’s misty madding slumber,
I rise to face the dreams of yesteryear.
Will today have better thoughts, I wonder.
My mind's a maze of agony and...

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I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Melancholia strikes like a bolt of lightening..
A heart surrounded by gloom..
Overcast skies filled with darkness..

Wind whispers softly..
A musical expression..
Whispers of comfort..

A stream of tears falling..
A...

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Should there be such pain in 
passion of the heart?
Or does the heart, 
simply by beating, 
know the boundaries of pain 
when it can no...

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"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love....

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If my mind were a sea,
on one of its shores,
dreams would drift to me each night,
sometimes as beautiful as silken sand.

Also I might dream awake....

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The anatomy of a poet’s heart ebbs and flows~
  sometimes like the swirling ocean,
  fluent in idyllic idioms and mystical metaphors,
woven from aesthetic...

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So she broke your heart and bled you
left you to drown in dark waters
of melancholia that has kept you entombed 
so long within its frozen...

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When truly embracing life, one must 
also embrace the mortal chain of death 
as friends and family continue passing 
in harmony with the earthly seasons,...

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Tell her that she made you feel.
Because you don't feel.
Tell her what you see. 
Because she doesn't see. 

Tell her that you liked her hair,...

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Am I living a delusion, for I have
a mania, a verbo grapho obsession
oh yes, I have a fixation
for words and writing . . . 
sometimes...

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Late,
 the morning glories rise
 passionate, royal, magenta blooms trumpeting,
 helloes and goodbyes;
novice neophytes falling 
into lavender blush dream states
succumbing to a mellowed change in...

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