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Doldrum Poems - Poems about Doldrum

Premium Member Why 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 Member What 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 Member Cerulean Mood
... 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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Categories: doldrum, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Daydream Escapes
... I drift. Through the doldrum of the day - downstream of indifference… a daydream escapes. Flower clouds at dusk. I dare, Odilon's deli......

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Categories: doldrum, art, day, dream, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I 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 Member Mortality 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
Premium Member Jonah
...Man o' mine, bravest o’ sailors, singing sea shanties with death, he wades through icy glaciers, o’ the frostiest breath. Cling to vein and steady this vessel, doldrum this destine my love, J......

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Categories: doldrum, death, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Narrative
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 Member Zealous 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 Member The 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 Member Hazard
...the troglodyte span scribbling doldrum brain power the halcyon days......

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Categories: doldrum, allusion, analogy, power,
Form: Haiku

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