Long Listlessness Poems

eyeing the current environment---
the ins & outs of everyday mediocrity,
that which for most is nothing less than a mundane pledge
whereby swimming with the stream, abiding all the preformed
parameters &
echoing the culmination of
listlessness
bound by increasing sedentary...

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An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints our...

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Absent Motility Against Staid Inertia

impossible to describe listlessness
     bedeviling this body electric aye attest
motivation to counter glumness
     seizes motility temporarily

     to stave off...

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to be in the state of weariness 
you need to comprehend 
that you're way beyond tired 
fatigue at your very end
It matters not your position
weariness at some point will prevail 
it matters not the season
as...

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The mild pace of my brain
Around fancy words like tamer and solace
Calm like a crystal clear lake
High up in the mountains of Tibet
 
Bruno could do nothing but stare
On the tragic haircut of Jebediah and...

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Ennui hath taken my very soul,
 listlessness abounds me, 
dissatisfaction ravished my heart, 
no one around me. 
The sun lurking behind the cloud,
 breaks away, blazing down, 
trying to melt away my tears,
 but is...

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My hand in yours,
Your hand in mine;
Holding on tight,
Fingers entwine.

Myriad promises,
Between our palms;
Reaching out across,
With outstretched arms.

Silent troths,
Exchanged in breath;
Keeping close,
Condensed to warmth.

We danced around,
Round and round;
In a merry-go-round,
Of love profound.

Like a game of 
Ring...

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Afternoon of Goodbye to His Time

A picture of my father,
When he was my age now. 
He sits in his office, 
and I am somewhere far away.
He writes in his cramped handwriting,
scours the books where he...

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In stillness of a winter morn,
A carriage passed me by,
Treading a path old and worn,
Upon it's wheels sore and dry;

The air about had a listlessness,
I heard no other noise
Than the passing hooves of a steed,
And...

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I slept through it and then i never met you, but it's okay because we've bought clocks
elsewhere. and How the birds chirp and the ticks tock; the fist hands that broken song,
into our blood already...

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Changing the habit hasn't been easy
Jubilant lip curves to free the breezy
Many trials delivering colossal failure
My efforts to quit robbed of allure 
A new courageous attempt is again made
And a new hurting failure of higher...

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Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes,   *           for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is...

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HEAT WAVE

I can’t get over it
Last summer was so mild
But now the Gods are making up for it
“Suffer ye sinners!” they say

Aside from the obvious -
Sweat
A slight loss of appetite
Listlessness
Reluctance to rise
A sudden genius for...

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My love is like a corpse
Upon the gothic floor
Where I have wept till soul is dry
With eyes like corpses when they rise
Behold the sun which melts away
Dying daily with no shame
What shone what found I...

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“Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, each far too little and yet too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer, with...

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The other day I called it in
 
to my office, from the hall;
 
it wasn't that my muse was, "off"
 
it wasn't doing anything, for any reason, at all !
 
At the onset I thought...

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Boredom
by M. Griswold
03292020

What do you do when you have time on your hands.
When boredom sets in and is fully at your command.
No pressing matters to lead you astray or away.
From this interim of emptiness that...

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1. Hoboken (cost: faces)

green listlessness falls a cobalt bakery 5 westward arms
mists Montana purchases atrophy azure 
turned golden Midas go-go 4 melting faces ultramarine
gallows repudiate denim jeans down
cerulean cilantro eyes whispered ears 3 gaslights my...

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The ancient anguish of a hurting heart
Bequeaths no beauteous scene to me today.
It’s just a jagged chasm gashed apart,
A stream with boulders strewn in disarray.
Like rusted leaves that bleakly canvas fall
Or barren trees that bear...

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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
           ...

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She cries tears of pain
The heartache he left for her
Tears that turn to blood
By the hurt that she now feels 
Nothing is worse than this pain

She doesn’t feel now
No other understanding
Comes to her hurt mind
She’s...

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Great men return from war - though boys they went
In eager confidence – and permanent
To meet a foe with ‘mutual intent’
‘Til body, spirit, mind are stained and spent

Brief Victory! One day, one battle won
Grim ruin...

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I want a new interest
                    to heal,
         ...

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From sunrise in the morning, to sunset at night,
concerning knowledge, I have an insatiable appetite.
For the body and soul, there is ambrosia in a bowl.
Generous servings have me attaining my goal.
Progressive thought, both systematic and...

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As day progresses,
her spirits begin to sink 
as if on command.

When did it begin,
this feeling of listlessness,
of being useless?

Not so long ago,
her days were filled with the joy
of being needed.

Now the grandchildren
she cared for daily...

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