Best Mirthless Poems
Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
...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 w......
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Categories:
mirthless, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen-A Collaboration With Shane Cooper
...The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.
The howling wind that claws at life,
The forest shrouded in endless white.
Skeletal ice hangs from warm lit homes,
..........
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Categories:
mirthless, autumn, halloween, winter,
Form:
Couplet
What If
...In the corner café across from the sea
he sits alone reading his book
Thinking of love while drinking his tea
and memories of chances he never took
Her name resonates gently
recalling m......
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Categories:
mirthless, fantasy, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Muddle Through Silence
...Once upon a time open windows, painted crimson, sealed shut
Words dancing in the bayside breeze blow aimlessly on by
Brilliant nighttime stars, holding a thousand wishes, no longer shine
A mirthle......
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Categories:
mirthless, farewell, silence,
Form:
Rhyme
My Beautiful Pocahontus ~
...Red Cloud....
These reminiscing waters have grown somewhat stagnant now; mirthless repose
It seems as the shimmering simile river begins its, millennials requiem
Canines still echoing somewh......
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Categories:
mirthless, life, love, time
Form:
Here In This Place Today
...V
Indeed, it is so far, far, far back where last I
Stood in sight of all her unnerving ambiguities...
This overstated manner inborn of an innate
And intimidating elegance. ......
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Categories:
mirthless, betrayal, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Bitterness
...A twinkle in her eyes tonight
evokes the thought that they invite,
though I recall, not long ago
my absence seemed more apropos.
The laughs that linger on her lips
bare more than many verbal ......
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Categories:
mirthless, love, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Frozen - a Collaboration With Michelle Mac Donald
...
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.
The howling wind that claws at life,
The forest shrouded in endless white.
Skeletal ice hangs from warm lit homes,......
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Categories:
mirthless, halloween, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Grim Thrum Epiphany
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Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab grief, of hiemal cradle
mirthless, a desolate land
shrouded in frozen dol......
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Categories:
mirthless, adventure, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form:
Free verse
Sound and Movement
..."Move!" sounds command.
I stir, arise, lift a laggard hand.
Can movement mark with magic
All latent space?
Shall thoughtless motion,
Mere mindless flurry,
Confer importance
On the empty hour?
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Categories:
mirthless, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Backstabbers
...There are people who make up misguiding lies,
use words to hurt, wound and paralyze,
they put up'walls or mountains to the skies,
of unscalable heights and unmeasurable size.
They set us adrift on ......
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Categories:
mirthless, introspection, satire, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Cthulhu Sunset
...The slash that is the roll of clouds
Above the rising darkness
That is gathering all about
......
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Categories:
mirthless, angst, dark, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Soft-Spoken Sanity
...I'm a very picky guy, getting involved
With my quality quantity
Oh oh look at how I have evolved
It's fantastic that it's reality
It's not a fantasy alone
And God answered His phone
No longe......
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Categories:
mirthless, deep, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Questions For God
..."Quesions for God"
CONTEST
There I was, missing her,
As she was lost somewhere in the snow,
The dead of winter encompassed her,
-slowly passed into oblivian.
There are no words to con......
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Categories:
mirthless, faith, grief, hope, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Revival Time
...Enrapture me, sweet radiance of beams.
As April takes her leave, I now implore
you. Fall upon me amber as in dreams
you came to me when cold was at my door.
Anoint me, oh sun, with rays of g......
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Categories:
mirthless, nature, me,
Form:
Sonnet