Best Nadir Poems

Sometimes, reflections from my mirror,
recall when I slumbered at nature's nadir,
as naysayers whispered in whiskey breaths.
Bewildered, I wandered in the wilderness,
until the mercy of verse reversed the curse.

Poetry you've always been the legacy of my heritage,
a shimmering nimbus, where my words reside by petals,
but if...

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Summer's salty doom knocked
ruggedly as I lay on the
sheets of tormented
threats and turmoil.
Jerks at the slightest beep. 
Gasps at a faint knock. 
Soaked in muddy debts
of frauds. A muscle pull of shame, 
death's soulful companion. 
The world didn't stop cascading. 
I did. My brain froze....

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When the smoky quartz sun 
slumbers into a cold winter, 
    we see the aftermath of a garnet twilight, 
   it is then, we find rose stars 
that refuse to abandon us in shivering solitude, 
  and beneath snake-skinned...

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Ripples of pain weave circles round her.
memories sad and stark crucify her.
at night she encounters mindless phantoms
vampires who come to suck her blood,
and tear her flesh.

She seeks a shelter where she could fall asleep,
breathing dark secrets into her crumpled pillow.
when questions rise from all corners,
putting...

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I wandered round the lonely graveyard.
The few mourners did not bother to look at me.
I ought to know the paths so well
Ah there it was, unembellished as I had left it.

Silence reigned everywhere, except for some bugs
I began to wonder what I was doing there.
Then...

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      Two full cups of wine
         even before we dine
      
      Two more later, raised in song
     ...

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The worst nadir in my young years
that brings me still to shed sad tears;
while I was pregnant- months to wait-
September, nineteen fifty-eight.

My new friend's child was six weeks old,
and for a while, left me to hold
and watch her for an hour or two
while she ran...

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Neither there’s zenith nor nadir of the soul
Death is a fathomless pit, a dead-end--
Lo, the spirit wilts when death takes its toll
No one's meant to know what’s up the bend.

Live life zealously; it’s an absolute end,
There’s no afterlife and no heaven,
Past death, who cares where...

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He had a house and money he could spend.
But that was not enough; he wanted more.
He met a person posing as a friend,
and she could see that greed was at his core.
She flattered him. His mentor she became.
She got him to invest all that he...

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Tabled all my thoughts to keep them empty
Walked alone to make the voices die
Never thought pebbles would make waves that crested over all the sunlight
and brought my hopes down with the colors of the sky

Nothing there to balance what is spinning
I cannot let the phantoms...

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Born into a landscape,
Not quite littered with landmines, 
But the occasional hole - 
Holes that seem inescapable,
Like quicksand -
When I fall, I just keep falling.  
Where is the bottom, the nadir?
It's impossible to know.
It's impossible to get out, 
Like being captured in a whirlpool,
My...

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Sleep escaped,
Without a farewell,
She had not the grace
To aspire my light,
She proved to be darker
Than her gaze,
Glaring, glowering,
Glowing with madness,
Bipolar’s destroyer – two sides of the coin
Despair, dread, doubt – depression
Delight, elation, wired – manic
Stages of dark and light,
Day and night,
A breath, a prayer, a...

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zenith
             maximum, highest
     attaining, climbing, reaching
peak, acme, ascendant, pessimism
    descending, plunging, sinking
              ...

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Life faces two extremes, acme and nadir, 
When we ascend to acme, we glow in its glory, 
Self-confidence grows, sometimes ego too, 
Seldom we reach out to people in need. 

When we are down to the nadir point in life, 
There is no hope, no...

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The sky was streaking in the most
amazing blazing hearten colors.

I thought that I was impregnable
from the outside, quite challenging,
competitive world it commands.

Behind my desk I sit in my study.
The sun casts shadows through
the large windows, upon the large
exposed darkened room.

Piles of unopened bills spread out
I've...

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