Short Despondence Poems

Melancholy
Glum despondence
Drifting, dreaming, mourning
Cycle of unending demotivation
Dejection...

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The sins of the father
the sins of the son
Repentance left vacant
each sorrow rerun
An age of despondence 
an age of denial
The past beyond hope
—the future beguiled  

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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BIPOLAR
Buoyant joyful spirits
but a garb, tormented
binary mind, prey to
betraying, grave  mood swings.
Brazeness doth  give way
brusquely to despondence;
blues to sadly,  hold sway.
Date Aug 16 2016
Name of contest 
PleiadesB...

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I DREAM

   Soft dawn runs on dazzling morn to sizzling noon, 
   then to fizzling eve but not to mourn.
   Dusty dusk merging at solitary nugatory night.
   Yet not in despondence.

   12/18/19

 Original Poem 'Day Dreams' posted on 11/17/19

 'Arbitrium Divisa 5' Contest by Gregory Barden...

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Seething pain it causes
Indelible marks of questions
unanswered
Lacerations of separation and
loneliness
Emanating from endless questions of
‘why’ and ‘how’
Nights and days are rendered
disconsolate
Coupled with despondence, depression
and melancholy
Endurance is but, all that the
affected has……....

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I left him 

                     I left him on journey
                     of life, since then peace and love have 
                    fled wiping all colors, only to   
                    rue in tears. My dream screams
                   on his quest in despondence.
                    
   05/18/19

 'your Favorite poem from May, 2019' contest by Julia Ward...

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Binge fiend of opulent fear. Between two way mirrors sponsoring fright, pale sheets of red color paint. Tell me if you believe in the boogey man. 
Does it nip the tips of your toes while you sleep? Dreams of animosity teethed at the hair strewn rind of bedlam. 
Or perhaps the pair of bright bleached eyes illuming in frosty despondence, a closet of decadence with a grain swollen grimace. 
Do you believe in the boogey man? 
-Mitch...

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DESPONDENCE

                       promised to return
                                   by tomorrow and left, but
                                                         that tomorrow fled.    .    

   09/02/17

     Second place
    Senryu On  Sadness Contest by Laura Loo                                   
  
     Second Place
  2 or 3-line poem contest by Brian Strand
  
   'Bite size Poem No. 3
 by Line Gauthier...

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BITS AND PIECES

Bits and pieces they say makes the whole
A whole of what I can't help but ask
Bits and pieces of pain - despondence
Bits and pieces of lies - distrust
Bits and pieces of self - egocentricity
Whatever be your chosen assort.

So,

The bits and pieces you chose to gather
In mind do bear the responsibility of
that the bits and pieces you then do sow
To lend from the French "des choses"
Are the sort of dribs and drabs ......
You should feel no fear to harvest....

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