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Languor Poems - Poems about Languor


Premium Member Ennui
The ballast of our Thursday afternoon in the countryside lays distilled in your face. Yawning like a cow in pasture eating sweet grass your words flatten the moment. Having no capacity of knowing what you might see in an endless sky you have seemingly died from boredom. Your small dreams have squandered the butterfly’s wings pathetically flapping ‘us’ into a Prantic trance, We lay...

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Categories: languor, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
I Experience Languor Getting Auld
As a bouncing baby boy syne of tragic travails in the offing tolled courtesy analogous bell think Pavlov's employ; yours truly me mama's apron strings rolled secure around stubby fingers brought joy created and garnered webbed wold between she who helped beget me thru ploy constituting biological reproduction. Peter Pan syndrome not recognized as bonafide diagnosis encapsulates mein kampf and hard times, whereby mine childhood's end dreaded,...

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Categories: languor, 12th grade, absence, analogy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Languor Afternoons
Languor Afternoons David J Walker I The odd stone was a family heirloom And a friendly oracle Always quietly thinking of the future Collecting visions of the past I stared for hours Before I asked for its wisdom It would simply smile But only for a while Before returning to its mineral leanings II The fouls flying in Single file Sang in scales Alone In...

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Categories: languor, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart
Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”) by Paul Verlaine loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch It rains in my heart As it rains on the town; Heavy languor and dark Drenches my heart. Oh, the sweet-sounding rain Cleansing pavements and roofs! For my listless heart's pain The pure song of the rain! Still it rains without reason In my overcast heart. Can it be...

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Categories: languor, french, hate, heart, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Languor
Heat ... Humidity … Sultry … Steamy… Stifling Languor … Lingering...

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Categories: languor, emotions, weather,
Form: Haiku




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