Short Doldrums Poems
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I troglodyte
In doldrums, scribbling-
the halcyon days
Promptly, my soul-
recalls, lo beloved's
pumpkin countenance
Season's True
hunting
fall's forest
springs his summer
doldrums to fade winter
of spoils
connie pachecho
6/15/17
A craft ever afloat
in dark endless doldrums.
The drifting aether-boat,
station of static hum.
Fallout: the lethal moat.
Recov’ry never comes.
Bright doldrums exist as seagreen sirens,
hovering forest of trees,
approaching the dock whips.
4/23/2021
summer afternoons
hot breath of summer
even the dark shadows sweat ~
solstice stupor
sweltering doldrums
heat waves rise on sallow breaths ~
only the bees buzz
South of the islands
a seven hundred miles stretch,
is an area,
where fair winds are not given
a fair chance to work its charms.
Date: 09/04/2019
Feeling a little better now
Had some time to myself
To look for a place
All I need now is
My money in the right place
and let these doldrums
be gone for good
everything as it should
Boredom,
the greatest vintner of pain
Aged in confusion
served with disdain
Moments gone fallow
dreams unfulfilled
Fatal perfusion
—doldrums distilled
(The New Room: May, 2022)
Depression is expression extinguished
It doesn't question and it doesn't distinguish
Through its progression hope is relinquished
For the "Depression is...a short poem" contest
12-4-2016
Without our dreams
we sit naked and alone
Imprisoned by doldrums
adrift from our home
In fits of depression
we unstep the mast
Awaiting the storm
— of futures long past
(The New Room: August, 2024)
Raising thoughts and emotion,
the mainsail was set
Heading into the wind
of tomorrow unmet
All stays are in place,
with tiller held fast
Reaching for glory
—the doldrums have passed
(Hereford Inlet: November, 2020)
Intrigue
Curvaceous, Mysterious
Teasing, Shooting, Falling
Flutterbys, kisses, peptic, belches
Oppressing, haunting, revealing
Omnipotent, Divisive
Doldrums
The backside
of tomorrow
The frontside
of today
Every look
retelling
Of what the past
betrays
Caught within
the doldrums
All time fades
in the mist
Until that day
that ends itself
And nothing more
— exists
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
BEFORE AND AFTER
For long years then
My days were lifeless
Dark and dry then
Like a boat adrift
In the doldrums then
Now I feel like a sail,
That was in the attic
And now is taken to the sea
Where real ocean winds
Now are blowing into it.
This day, the ocean within that I glimpse
between the light and dark – is still.
No wind or waves ruffle it.
Is it an image of peace, or only a vista of doldrums?
Perhaps with my ever changing moods
best to wait, better to drink from these depths
without judgment.
Fear, the ghost of indecision
where darkness stalks each day
Confusion our ignoble master,
bewildered we fall prey
Terror caught in nightly doldrums,
the walls start closing in
As choices wait our will to answer
—or die this fate within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)
SPRING SPRUNG
first buds
sprung from doldrums
this motionless hurry
giant bird
after all these winters
has found its way.
cat sense
and so quiet
at the open window
fluttering things
dropping from bare branches
spring sprung
all in ruin silently wait first buds
.
Revisiting oceans I’ve sailed before,
my eyes now finally see
Their currents deeper but softer felt,
all doldrums blowing free
As friends I greet them no longer strange,
once passing in the night
With anchors dropping inside my soul
—to harbor this delight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
At the cross roads i stood,
Bedeviled with indecision
But i must travel one path
A making or marring decision,
I snubbed the throes path
For the greener and grassy path
Have been on this greener path
For a century, only to be trapped
In staccato doldrums,
I shall recount to my offspring
The folly of wrong decision
awoh awoh
Form:
Lugubriosity pervades
Heartbroken expression 'pon maid
War ready her armor clad knight
The hem of silken quilt cascades
Grieved like the maid who weighted prayed
Doldrums linger 'til love's in sight
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Senses For A Sestet
Written: October 30, 2013
Author: Sara Kendrick
My mood is hopeful every time
old calendars defer to new.
Post-Christmas doldrums start to fade.
It's time to bid the old adieu.
God’s blessed us with another year.
New opportunities are here!
January 4, 2023
Bite Size Poem no. 58 contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
January 6, 2023
entered in Brian Strand's Poetry Contest 1167
Drink earth's grape - and liquor's melting
of the sense's grim
clap the heart and soul and dance
the music's justly whim
moisten now life's hurried stance
with temporary oil
lift the spirit - tilt the glass
spin day's doldrums - kiss the sin
for 'morrow enters still again
the mundane and the rough
tonight - you soothe the palette
by living off the cuff
If you cannot find a word
to begin with, take my tip,
say “I love you, as you’ve heard
many times – my love is deep
as an ocean, where you are
hear a hum that’s coming through
its my waves around your heart
never doubt my love to you
when I’m silent, it’s the doldrums
when I speak, waves roll again
sending you my words and hums
washing over all your pain…”
The fluidity of strings, the rain harp ~
tears of joy and sadness spill, from incense
prayers of cacophonous clouds, clapping loud.
Sweet cherub fingers plink, spot on and sharp.
Wings whisk away the doldrums, banish doubts.
Tenderly, the raindrop symphony, lifts
the spirits of the drenched fallen earthlings.
The lilting psalm of living water spouts.
6/14/2018
by Mark Miller © 12/21/2016
Void of heart's love,
Desolate doldrums above-
Mournful Melancholia,
Morose melody-
Severed goodbyes,
Time doleful cry's
Deject filled grief,
Subject denied relief
Internal aches,
Death's depot awaits-
Complicit plot,
Sculpted lies a flock-
Head out west,
For blissful rest-
Forever in wait,
Flames heat passion
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