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Doldrum Poems - Poems about Doldrum

World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who

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Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf

The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
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Categories: doldrum, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhy I Feel Empty

...“Emptiness is an all- pervasive feeling of lack of movement or fulfilment in life. It is a hollowness that can’t be filled. It is stagnancy like doldrum”~ By Poet


 Of late, I am haunted by a...
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Categories: doldrum, anxiety, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWhat Makes You Feel

...Topic.2

when my friend drifted, despondent I grew, drowning into dull doldrum....
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Categories: doldrum, friend, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberCerulean Mood

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Written: March 16, 2025, for a contest Sponsored By Cobstance la France

Quote: Like the sun, show mercy, and like the night, hide others' flaws.   Give like water and be humble li...
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Categories: doldrum, autumn, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

White Mongoose

...Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers.
Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers.
Doldrum office charts demons...
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Categories: doldrum, animal,
Form: Free verse



White Mongoose

...Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers.
Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers.
Doldrum office charts demons...
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Continue reading...
Categories: doldrum, animal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Am

...Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I am mired in confusion.
Sometimes ...
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Categories: doldrum, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMortality Smothers

...life is a feather on the wind ~ fallen from a sparrow who's not sinned

borne and adrift upon the air ~ brushed away like a stray strand of hair

fragile wanderer in doldrum streams ~ illumin...
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Categories: doldrum, how i feel,
Form: Monoku

Recurring Thoughts

...It’s a recurring thought–
Over and over again–
echoing in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like a song stuck in your ...
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Categories: doldrum, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse

Symmetrical Thought Shifts

...Doldrum days, nothing i say make them go on their way. Away with their festering pain, smiting down the mentally sane. Bright burning light in the day bringing the sight to the brave is so close, for...
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Categories: doldrum, angst,
Form: Free verse

Latex Condom Speaks

...Sure, we all are in Gods kingdom,
Not in Satan's perverse Dukedom,
And should well clear steer of whoredom,
A big challenge to clinched stardom
Often igniting sex freedom;
Never Saint Stephen's ...
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Categories: doldrum, death, education, health, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZealous Waves

...Clad in doldrum
with yarns of fuchsia

hemmed here & there
twisted amidst the layers

& simulacrum

esoteric verse
slicked in ethereal

& outvying
of vehemences, I goad

to scatter ...
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Categories: doldrum, analogy, appreciation, character, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Beauty Outside

...My husband and I went out today.
For a country ride,
It was a glorious day,
Too good to waste inside.

The scenery was magnificent,
Mother Nature at her best.
No one would be equivalent,
If t...
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Categories: doldrum, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHazard

...the troglodyte span
                      
                 scribbling doldrum brain power
      
                                   the halcyon days...
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Categories: doldrum, allusion, analogy, power,
Form: Haiku

Part Two: Escape From Pandemic

...I wave vaguely toward a boat in the distance, but
can't think of what I would say if they invited me on board.
"That seems excessive kindness," I say, but a voice laughs in my head,
"Yeah, but the...
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Categories: doldrum, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

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