Dolefully Poems - Poems about Dolefully

Tempest

...distempered winds rise
our bodies of water swell
overcoming land
children shriek dolefully
as gunfire rain rings out...

Evening

...Evenings chill lingers
into the  blue light
a wayfarer  of fine form 
dolefully finds himself

A listless man wishes
on brazen stars
burning deep into his dreamy glare

Against the dark elm
...

The Quest for Restless Orbit

...Wandering alone with a heart that’s aching evidence  
The fences you’re always sitting on, more numerous than my internal injustices 
Not that I can really talk 
Choking on all my hypocrisies 
An...

Remind Me Not, Our Love Was Lost

...
I first read Lord Byron's poetry, after a love was lost.
Each of us going separate ways; sorrow, the high cost.
Byron wrote of his grieving in 'When We Two Parted,' 
of how lovers might leav...

Life is a Song

...
"Life is a song," I find it intriguing,
how often the roads we journey upon 
allude to lyrics like variant moods of songs.
Some days I endeavor to sing, 
but the words come out all wrong.
...

Silence

...
Deafening
Disturbance 
Does
Dolefully 
Dictate a
Detraction

Dancing
Diligently
Despite the
Daring
Departure
Decision; for
Diminution of
Distance,
Derogation of
Distraction, 
Depre...

The Mill Town House

...Grandfather's house, knocked to the ground - to dust:
The windows wept when the bulldozer came
Timeworn and dirty and wheezing black smoke,
Just like the drab mills where grandfather moiled.

Ch...

Taj Mahal

...Fantastic story in milky marble,
In honor of a wife, so praiseworthy (?)
Though seems overflow of fidelity,
Tajmahal is Muslim art, painterly;
From around world he brought so precious stones.
He...

A Shout Into the Void

...Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent, in...

The Price of 'Progress', Part I

...If you are now reading this note
I am hoping you’ll understand,
I didn’t mean for any of this,
was trying to be a good man.
All that I was trying to do
was support my only son, Dan.
It started ...

The Jilted Seeks Again

...-The Jilted Seeks Again-

When my fortunes tilted,
I was by my winsome love jilted.
And my heart heavily bled;
Happiness and half my life fled-
Dolefully, I cooed like a dove.

But after a sp...

Dizain Contest

...Tear-stained envelope, left by the deceased,
Sorrowful words inscribed to whomever,
Expressed dolefully by our local priest,
Tender dove, thought she would fly forever,
Artist, pianis...

Condolences Forever Invoked - 9 11 2001

...Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

(I sit corrected for typing year 201, when most of America untrammeled by hordes of humanity, and probably far more similar to the garden of Eden, which app...

Condolences Forever Invoked 9 11 201

...Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

Many unsuspecting innocent lives
     unwittingly found themselves
     at ground zero
     with absolutely no time
     to bid loved ones adieu,
and t...

Vengeful Revenant

...Oh, there are some hurts that nobody reckons
when a rush of rage, pain and revenge beckons 
about a wanton act of mayhem and spiteful action,
In the silent nights it beckons, oh how it beckons
be...

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