Dolefulness Poems | Examples


Premium MemberHaze of Abhorrent Mystery

Sulfuric dew sonatas, rustling in a bobby reek
Vermillion of umbra and debased conundrums

Rosemary pulp extracted from the pulpy bosom.
wilting amid the cranberry tackle
blubbering irises with a tinge of snow

Crimson lava that has solidified.
painted with the scent of murdered love
No longer a viable supplement; prohibited.

Lilith's spells were drenched in blood hype.
In crisp dears, a neolithic Pandora box shivers.
It drizzled a steely dolefulness across my core.

Written: December 12, 2022
Categories: dolefulness, heart, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Song of a Little Birdie

In stillness of gazes,
the eyes behold the empty nest
of a beautiful birdie.

stripped of all she is and represents,
the beautiful birdie hovers
fragile and broken to blight. 

cloaked in the depth of despair,
tears stream down her face
in this drought of dolefulness.

still,she hovers round its nest,
awaiting the whispers of hope
in the wind.
Categories: dolefulness, africa, allegory, art, bird,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberOur Sunshine High


Bright sunshine magnifies our happiness
    with rays that spread a glow on all we see.
          It has a way of dulling dreariness
               and blocking thoughts of glum reality.

Our minds are soothed with the euphoria
     instilled from sun-splashed skies and golden views
          that numb all negative dysphoria
               as highs from sunny rays to minds infuse.

A precious gift, this sunshine we enjoy:
     its mighty power helps all nature grow;
          but added too, a psychedelic ploy
               to keep us balanced through our ebb and flow.

To help reduce our swings to dolefulness-
                Bright sunshine magnifies our happiness.
Categories: dolefulness, sunshine,
Form: Sonnet

A Broken Hearts Story

We were back to back, my fortress my solid wall
But then you stood up and left me cold,
How the world turned grey, the moment time stood still
The hourglass kept flowing, I couldnt turn back the clock, 
Life went on, there wasnt a glimmer of rememberance,
The sweet melody of our heaets, disapperead to the morning zyphr 
The wind gradually coursed through my airtight heart,
Trying to no avail to breath life into the empty spaces,
My soul fire dwindled and died, like a crescendo of white noise ,avalanches of dolefulness came crashing down on my senses
I was left numb, submerged in a roaring river of wreckage

Marooed at sea, my tears wouldnt stop flowing
The rain God hated my cries of grief and joined in my wailing heart,
Each deluge tried to wash away the pain but to nought effect
Instead my heart got carried away with the tide
Free falling into a vortex of precarious security, 
I landed smack hard on the gravity, the wind blowing through something that I once called HEART.

A life I once treasured, a moment that evaporated too soon.
Categories: dolefulness, absence, anger, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Ballad

The Patient Pantaloon

The Patient Pantaloon 
Nick Rush

With your dangling bells, and your trepid smile, your harlequin eyes, burn like coal 
With your windy heart, and your unguided fate, beyond sheer truth, lies a lost riddle
With your sunshine oozing through your tempest mask, boulders on both shoulders 
WIth your silhouette pressing from your feet to the floor, much colder each day older
With your enchanted soul, and your abstract sight, blocked by shadows, due to rue 
With your tangled thoughts, and your addled love, dolefulness heavy, que the blues
With that said you live to fight another day, or fight to live, which way will you sway?
With the glass half empty, still you can sip, imagine there is nothing, not even a drip.
Categories: dolefulness, art, bible, cheer up,
Form: I do not know?


Piano Chords

Preposterous melody won't exist,
Inside a piano without the chord's beat
Aubade is formed when dolefulness emits
Nails the body to where she always sits;
Ordering her fingers to start a writ.

Corners her world with piano as a friend
Heaves fro the melancholia life has sent
Obsolete in the past yet still remains
Rest in the hands of the hellion of dents
Deceiving the chords life composed to mend

Carted away from the womb of thy mom,
Dispatched to fosters as a surly wan
Ego disappears to the children's scrum
For years she can't find her ruined life's sum

Guided and loved with the help of the rank
An afflatus for three hearts to collide
But deep beneath, she had always been mock
Called in by her fosters as out of luck

Door to door, she lagged capitulated
Reminds herself the poem she narrated
Misses the time her heart elevated
Falls for a man who's crossed-dressing blended

Solitude before but now chaperoned
Laminated by her man's trifle tone
Timbre has echoed when they broke the stone
Do you hear the sixteen chords of her song?
Categories: dolefulness, how i feel, life,
Form: ABC

What Will You Do

What will you do
when your strongest 
eagle couldn't fly a mile?

What will you do
when your strongest 
horse 
couldn't run a mile?

What will you do
when you fastest cheetah
is outrun by a mice?

What will you do
when your everybody
becomes nobody?

What will you do
when your everything
become nothing?

What will you do
when all you could say
to express your state is
had I know?

What will you do
when the reason for your 
happiness becomes the 
source of your sadness 
and dolefulness?

What will you do
when your enemies no 
longer forster harm 
designs against you but 
you bloods and fleshes 
do?

What will you do
when you find yourself 
doing what you never 
wanted to do and not 
doing what you've 
always wanted to do?

What will you do
 when you find yourself 
in an undue situation of: 
do or do not
and all you can do is to 
do the do?

Hmmm! What will you do
when you don't even 
know what to do?
Categories: dolefulness, absence
Form: ABC

Chemical Reaction

A chemical reaction, nothing more:
Mere hormones running rampant through our veins.
But, still, we focus on it and ignore
Whatever sense or logic that remains.
It causes pain and sorrow all around,
Regardless of the happiness once had.
When misery and dolefulness abound,
We still pursue the curse that makes us mad.
Delusion plagues our hearts, our minds betrayed.
And afterwards we certainly regret
The ignorant decisions that we made.
We swear that we are wiser now, and yet--
We never learn, and persevere to find 
That once again, it's love that's left us blind.
Categories: dolefulness, lost love, love, love
Form: Sonnet

Rising Waters



Feelings can flood the soul 
resulting in torrential downpours,
the tears like crashing waves 
relieving the pressure, 
cleansing the shores.
A brave face cannot always 
dam the rising waters,
the vast reservoir 
overflowing with dolefulness.
Peaceful surface waters 
can cover tumultuous riptides.
Cathartic tears sometimes must fall 
before the ardent feelings 
of joy and contentment can return
with laughing eyes and smiling lips,
no longer hiding behind a glacial mask.
Learning to reconcile the yin and yang, 
darkness and the light, ice and heat,
is the key to a harmonious existence.
We are all desperate for an amicable union 
within ourselves, 
a balance between the internal and external worlds.
God is the harmonious balance, 
the peaceful waters,
and sometimes...tears must fall.
Categories: dolefulness, angst, happiness, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
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