Disconsolate Poems - Poems about Disconsolate

... Breathless, words like cordyceps adhere to my throat, Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords. Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways, Yet the more I str......

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... ghosts … of Christmases past wander through this disconsolate house weary but hearty hearts that once thrummed, eager and one their echoes … soft-whispering me of what’s imperfectly precio......

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... Disconsolate obsidian waves crash over crumbling dunes, Sweeping afflicted grains of sand back into the depths, Dragging my paralysed soul with them. Engulfed in despondent riptides, I gasp......

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... unsettling waves farewell... to his monument disconsolate... shards ......

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... I don't know of anyone who's been successful in an attempt to capture the encumbrance of a love pledged and then withdrawn, nor how to heal a heart from its fallibility. So, I'm left wo......

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...Dream Song of the Thunders Chippewa saying translation by Michael R. Burch Sometimes I bemoan my “plight” when all the while the wind bears me across the immense sky. What is life? The f......

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...Behold the abominable annals of the Storm domicile, A living, groaning edifice of lumber and bureaucratic despair— Where Allen Storm, the paternal prodigal of procedural pedantry, Treads upon its ......

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...The affection of my mother, a solemn silence of apathy and burning, the affection that assisted my inevitable yearning, yearning for fondness, empathy, passion and love, a cemented wish from......

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... Written: January 05, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori Poem Inspired by the Hughes Turner Project, ____________________________________ Stars ......

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...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS Sonnet XIV by Petrarch translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire to banish every virtue from mankind, replaced by evil in hi......

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...Xmas tide, a time for familial gatherings, The golden chain of friendship …and companions Sweet on each other, parading arm in arm Together to share a feast and gift giving ...Nativity sce......

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...Gefunden (“Found”) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Into the woodlands, alone, I went. Seeking nothing, my sole intent. But I saw a flower......

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...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi Upon my quest for quintessence. I was an amorist, positive in poetic philosophies. Elysian and empyrean effigies, enlightened i......

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...A run-on sentence, free verse/rhyme poem… Baptizing myself miraculously in the benevolent, bubbly bathtub…playing in the cleansing water like a beloved cub Rubbing my blitheless, blessed body wit......

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... Written: May 23, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I call you a Venus-blooded princess deity related to grace and love you, alone, lost track of your r......

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