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In The Doldrums Poems - Poems about In The Doldrums

Before the brow grows cold
...lazy bones, bound in poverty’s grip in a garden, where hesitation weeds grow~ filled with s t r a n g l e d d e l i c a c i e s… a recipe of wisdom, never tasted couched like a fly in a......

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Categories: in the doldrums, encouraging, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rubicon Crossing
...I trudged to levy height, stood upon the soggy ground with serious intentions that an answer would be found To the river's rapidly flowing current, I confided my woes of troubling things that had ......

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Categories: in the doldrums, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree, things aren't the same as they used to be. When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail, I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale. Such an inj......

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Categories: in the doldrums, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sleepy Sunday
...It is hard to be enthused when you realize your team sucks. wasting a long evening witnessing that very fact Next year will be better the season just started next year never comes just the perpetu......

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Categories: in the doldrums, games,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Island of Don Di Von Kaire
...Far away from the well-traveled trade routes, In those latitudes few lubbers dare, Lies a haven of peace and contentment Called the Island of Don di von Kaire. When the climate at home turns op......

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Categories: in the doldrums, depression, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Lyric



Egomania
...The self is but a wicked dream that lifts you high to let you fall. "Inflatable", men call such boast that stretches the imagine so to propel the I to heights unknown to none save "me"......

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Categories: in the doldrums, feelings, image, integrity, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust Had Gathered
...dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stic......

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Categories: in the doldrums, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Heart, the Head and the Soul Reigns Unsullied Belief
...Beyond the Heart, the Head and the Soul reigns unsulleable Belief How he blurted in a moment of self-lacerating glory-be pique Who will in a thousand years retrieve my poems from digital rot ......

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Categories: in the doldrums, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member More Than Just Friends
...In the doldrums of a hushed space, Of a part of vacuous open to silence, Undisturbed stares party to patience, The essence shared natures reticence, Lies a formidable barrier of hinderance, Unse......

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Categories: in the doldrums, allegory, boy, character, destiny,
Form: Monorhyme
Something New
...I'm stranded on a sailboat in the doldrums of my mind, but there's comfort within jail though when I know just what I'll find. There's nothing new. Nothing new. You pushed me to the plank......

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Categories: in the doldrums, change,
Form: Rhyme
Festoons
...FESTOONS A day of festivity in fresh air Festoons forming an entry pair Gorgeous drapes of silky velour Incense having their share Festoons in the doldrums As one is one less than twelve ......

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Categories: in the doldrums, imagination, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Myriad of Scars
...Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast, She had only drank from the cool river of freedom. One fateful day it happened; she was caught unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a......

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Categories: in the doldrums, appreciation, change, hope, inspirational,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Weather Forecast
...December 2017 Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the only dark cloud on the horizon ......

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Categories: in the doldrums, humorous, life, weather, word
Form: Narrative
Endosulfan Rain
...It wasn’t monsoon but toxic rain. Diya drenched in the doldrums. Her head bloated, brain turned barren. Her body curved as a cashew nut. Her legs and arms dried. Aches and anxietie......

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Categories: in the doldrums, sad,
Form: Free verse
Loose Change With Frayed Ends
...Loose change with frayed ends, my life feels snagged on acute bends. Tangled threads surround me, they seem to wind and bind me, preventing freedom's trends. I don't know how others do it. Mi......

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Categories: in the doldrums, cute, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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