Drabness Poems - Poems about Drabness

A Good Sense of Humour Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality

...I try to crack a joke to tame a tense situation,
As a way of blowing up the slow building steam.
With a joke, I see all resentments flitting away,
And watch, how a happy mood begins to stream....

spring into it

...Spring semester has started.
We’re all immersed in the ritual of change
and totally committed to that descent into madness
to the relentless drabness, the flatness, the blandness
for the hours, d...

What will it cost

...I can't really think of a number.? If seems almost irrelevant
Now.' It well might be? plus twenty million, if the lawyers
Get involved? anyhow.' For giving wrong terms to your
Prisoner out of 'con...

Tribute To Sheila

...Sheila was blowsy, frowsy, frumpish, dowdy.
matching her unkempt messy, sloppy abode.
gone to seed, meanies said in a nasty way.
we kids saw through Sheila’s shabby drabness.
she was entertaining...

Grandma's Vase

...Grandma’s Vase

I remember the old yellow vase
that grandma kept on the kitchen table
she filled it each day with flowers she cut
from the beds in the backyard garden

in spring it held purple...

Still Your Date, Dear Jude

...Be happy 
For the peace of mind
Be scrappy
And celebrate to go blind 
Of the joy you've find

Never permit 
The drabness in your situation
Never admit 
It could stoke up your reason's activa...

Ritual Unique

...To a learned philosopher
Or to a logical thinker
The gesture of this lone lady
Wrapping linens around this tree
Might look like a modern madness
Or drabness rooted on slackness...
Only one with...

Hey, Unwelcome Monotony

...Hey, unwelcome monotony...
my moods are darker than the Squawk's melody;
all the swans have deserted the nearby pond...
will another thunder shake trees and ground, 
making the rest of the huddle...

Ricochet

...My old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the glen.

I worked through those golden days, but most evenings st...

Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv

...(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tub...

Love Poem - To Life

...How do I love thee...like sparkling diamonds
that promise undying magnificence, 
a sky an intricate lace gilded with stars at night, 
pulling my soul into depths of wonderment.

How do I love th...

Year's End

...With lockdowns and fear the past year was drear.
Today it is dark and dank and dripping,
slate grey. The sun refuses to appear.
Wild winds have eased to drabness as nothing.
Winter solstice offer...

Thy Gift To Earth

...In deep dark caverns flowed her lush hair
coats crystal lined caves with sunlight flare.  
The golden honey that draws a bear 
your gold flecked eyes, its color will dare.

The blue of your eyes...

Missing You

...When you’re near me, 
the sky is no longer blue.
You’re the pink lenses
I see the world through.

When you leave me,
you take away your spell.
The drabness returns, 
making me want to yell.
...

Missing You

...When you’re near me, the sky is no longer blue.
You’re the pink lenses I see the world through.

When you leave me, you take away your spell.
The drabness returns, making me want to yell.

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