Short Dolorous Poems

The chimes reveling above,
  flush with high-spirits, considering

The dolorous toll of the bells
  below, met with knowing glances...

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Once dolorous by 
     the might of 
   disaster's lick 

and hope flick 
  the luminous Cross 
and it was... ‘Red’ 

RedCross, 
   flame eternal wick...

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Dilly O daffodil!
Day is sunny and bright.
Driven by zephyr winds.
Delight of fairy wings.
Dolorous on the dirt.
Dainty one lies below.
Drizzling on cherub cheeks....

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There's a fairy in my chest
Live's with two crooked knives
In a barbed wire nest.
She loves to play and hide
In the dense and dolorous vines.
And I can get no rest.
As she tortures me at all times....

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This dolorous day, my Lord,
You won't be marching alone, onto
Your crucifixion

For

The entirety of the Christian world,
Is marching on with You because of
Its conviction.







 © Demetrios Trifiatis
       07 APRIL 2023
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* I wish all my brothers and sisters in Christ: 
 Happy Easter! Blessings!
-...

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I have never seen a living thing
That looked so very dead--
Lacking elegance and color,
Seeming dolorous, instead.

And its limbs were much distorted,
Like an old, arthritic hand,
As it leaned there, hunched and crooked,
As if it hurt to stand.

But while it had the look of death
It bestowed the coolest shade,
Leaving me to wonder why...
This God so oddly made?...

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Liquor some strange
   in cups so Pristine
I melted in sips
 Memories don't fade 
and everything seems bland

 What pierces the soul
 Swallowed me as a whole
 Distance beyond miles
  and some corner in the heart enervates

Emerged from shadows
  and swayed by winds
Speaking in sharp tone
   and looking so contrite
  I wince at pain
   and played the same dolorous melody...

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I thought I was never
A neophyte in lovemaking
Surely my bedroom prowess
Was a gift of providence

Gone were my floundering, lecherous
Smoldering inhibitions

Sadly my dolorous bombastic
Evaluation of my carnal skills
Was greatly overrated

Unfortunately I came
To this conclusion
Much too quickly 

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A saddening song swishes subtly in the bitter breeze, 

Mad mournful music meets me everywhere I move, 

Like a dolorous dirge drumming through the dark; 

Wistful winds wearily bring to mind stinging salt drops,  

All energy expended in trying to make sense of this forlorn fusion

As a painfully pensive psalm is penned down 
						in the ragged remnants of war...


10/25/17


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A dolorous mournful miasmic hue,
colors all of my closing days blue, 
sweetness of days gone, 
that can't be retrieved, 
has me missing those souls 
whose death left me aggrieved, 
life should be lived with the relish of youth, 
before old age comes and 
confirms cold deaths harsh truth, 
mark clear the note that philosophers chime, 
get busy with life while you still have the time. 
 
New York City...

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A lecherous neophyte he preyed
upon their folded hands and closed eyes
bathed in their dolorous mumblings
sated himself on their penitential inhibition

Left them to flounder hopelessly - adrift
drowning in his vitriolic bombast
a hard burning scent of incense
left to smolder in their souls

for Providence had delivered them - to him



©6/16/2019

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