Short Doldrums Poems

Clouds
of grey
winter gloom-
days meld into
one....

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My solitude is
like drifting in the doldrums
waiting for a breeze....

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My world is oblique
Saturday, day of mourning
Read books in a week....

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Long days drag deep, test 
me to my bones; they hurt too.
Still, the flowers bloom....

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Another day of doldrums
ho-hum
Living the life of boredom
Let’s face it,
today is just another wasted day...

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I troglodyte 
In doldrums, scribbling-
the halcyon days

Promptly, my soul-
recalls, lo beloved's
pumpkin countenance...

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Season's True

hunting
fall's forest
springs his summer
doldrums to fade winter
of spoils

connie pachecho

6/15/17...

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A craft ever afloat
in dark endless doldrums.

The drifting aether-boat,
station of static hum.

Fallout: the lethal moat.
Recov’ry never comes....

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Bright doldrums exist as seagreen sirens,
                          hovering forest of trees,
                              approaching the dock whips.

4/23/2021...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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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)
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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)...

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Have I descended into the doldrums
Or are the doldrums
Either side of this tightrope I walk?
It's not the black dog
This could be shaken off
But I'm so used to being on this tightrope I stand still
Maybe I need to read up
On acrobatics...

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Intrigue
               Curvaceous, Mysterious
              Teasing, Shooting, Falling 
        Flutterbys, kisses, peptic, belches
          Oppressing, haunting, revealing
                 Omnipotent, Divisive
                        Doldrums...

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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) 
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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....

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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....

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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)...

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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

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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)...

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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...

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