Short Blue Funk Poems

I fought the good fight, yet still I lost
and you stood in brackish silence
with bitter reward in briny eyes
proffering spiny frowns
shoulders crumbled with aging ache
and brow dimpled with sour failure
I staggered dragging the last crumbs
through the madness of a blue funk

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Summer time blue funk
Can't stand all this humid stuff
I have had enough

Car's like an oven
Air-conditioner's working
But the heat is winning

Sweat just pours off me
Clothes and sand stick to bodies
Go to a nude beach

There it's no torture
To frolic in the water
And to "hang" out there......

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The breeze of hope will blow away the deep  foliage of despair
Hearts in blue funk a bright scintilla of earnest hope will mend and repair
A new dawn embarks on the streets where once darkness dwelt
Bow down to the Mercy of  Mother Nature to which the world Knelt
A  breeze of hope gently caress the coldest despair....

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Wading in waters
Tainted as Mexico's Gulf
Yet creek bed shallow

Flaling in waters
Murky as an old river
Qualms rising chest high

Drowning in waters
Falling like Niagara
Adriatic deep

Drifting on waters
From a self-inflicted wound
Atop bundled sticks

Crossing the waters
With ripples of her blue funk
On the horizon...

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It's so hard, sometimes
To remove this cerement 
To muster a veritable smile
To schlepp out of the sediment

It will end, I know
When authentic smiles will replace
The disingenuous air
I bedaub to my face 

The crazy part is, it seems
That the solution to my abasement 
Though well within my clout
Looms just far of my embracement 

Motivation! To do the work
For which I have the skill
Seems lacking in my repertoire
As does the supportive shill...

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