Short Doom And Gloom Poems

Life's a theatre!
Scene 2: doom and gloom throttled
The audience cheers...

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I'M NO CROONER
Hey! I'm not all doom and gloom,
I have a laugh, just don't ask me to croon....

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Why should you sit alone in your room?
Participate in a Baby Boom!
With so many dying
There's no use in crying
When you can have fun and doom the gloom!...

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The nation faced such doom and gloom
Men gathered in a basement room
The gunpowder plot
Was brilliant- NOT
And parliament never went boom...

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With a dour look and a frown they engage us
With a grave look they tell what should enrage us
No concern of mine there stance
I left for fear the chance
The doom and gloom and hate might be contagious...

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Today'a weather took a definite turn for the worse
Crappy clouds and rain, our mood is cursed
Doom and gloom it creates
Well in my mind at any rate
Feel we're all doomed, I have visions of a hearse...

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I resolve to defeat an inclination to depression~~
     Creepy feelings of doom and gloom come over me uninvited.
          My attitude changes remarkably with the weather.

written October 25, 2021...

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I
look for
brighter days
on the horizon
no matter the present chaos,
in spite of your pitiful doom and gloom attitude,
I am resolving to maintain a positive attitude about our future world....

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A baby boomer, late bloomer, at times a doom and gloom er.
Eats blueberries, says Hail Mary's, believes in leprechauns and fairies.
Works on commission, has good nutrition, too impatient to ever go fishing.
Sings in C, off key but always very happily.
Never a stoic, brave and heroic. Lately feeling mesozoic....

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A night that comes, only once a year,
dressed to frighten, causing such fear.
Doom and gloom, all scream and shout,
as the unknown, is everywhere about.

When one hears a knock on the door,
hesitating to open, wondering what for. 
Strange come asking, scary and now seen,
as one by one, demanding treat, on Halloween....

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There's a cockney name Terry, loves to joke
Nitro, his cat is   easy to provoke 
Nitro slept under the chair.
Terry in his lion's lair 
Got up; in doom and gloom a hollow broke.
 
2/16/2022


 
“Lion’s lair” refers to an armchair.
"Cockney" a native of East London, traditionally one born within hearing of Bow Bells....

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The sky is grey
It's beginning to rain
The markets are down
The economy strains

There's more divorce
Than ever before
Men are still dying
In senseless wars

The cynics say
The earth is doomed
All you hear
Is doom and gloom

Hear what I say
Rise above the squalls
Because in the end
Love conquers all...

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The dawn of a New Year
Another time to meet head on,
Is this a good omen or do I fear
Now my youth has long gone,
Ablaze within the power shone.

Yet I see a light bestirring
Amongst the doom and gloom,
Freedom of one’s pen columnist averring
When of weaving the literary loom,
Idealistic sweeps the new broom.

© Harry J Horsman 2015...

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Listen to poem:

doom and gloom
a fatal blow
the universe does what it does
come grisly clouds
the pounding ruthless
a brutal silence spins my head
devastation of a cyclone
the sun may never shine again
through curtains drawn
a ray of hope
time being what I needed
to heal and rise again



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on February 12, 2021...

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I hear the sound of gun shot
and music.
Patriotic music
Doom and gloom music
It's Memorial Day
My husband is glued
to the TV watching 
because his father was
blown off three ships
More gloom and Doom music
The dog and I are curled up,
in the recliner,
trying to not listen to
the gunshots.
or the gloom and doom music.
It filters in anyway...

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time will tell for will i ever break your spell
I'm falling in to hell

please break this spell
i feel like hell ,I'm seeing you i cant feel you
but I'm near you

watching you I'm aching for you
to see me watching you through the open door

 your heart is my only cure
it will not always be doom and gloom for trust me soon



the nightwalker...

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In this world of doom and gloom
It hard to find a smile
But look upon the flowers in bloom
And smile for a while

Today we see more death and pain
On the news everyday
But look at the beauty in the rain
And let your soul sway

Because everywhere we humans live
The are things of joy
To your soul, joy these things give
This the world cannot destroy...

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I prefer to be positive, write upbeat stuff,
But sometimes life seems doom and gloom
You should tell me when you’ve had enough
I prefer to be positive, write upbeat stuff.
After all, as an old bird, I can be mighty tough
Even when the road gets rocky and rough,
I prefer to be positive, write upbeat stuff
But, sometimes life seems doom and gloom. 

written April 21, 2022...

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Lettuce pray
for I can eat no lettuce today.
No Cos, no Iceberg, no Loose leaf.
Arugula and
Kale are beyond the pale
for alas a procedure looms
while fresh edibles are all in bloom.

It's Spring and not a green thing to eat,
what a bother
soon no red things neither.

For lunch I will munch
on the written word
compose a thing absurd
perhaps be lured
to pen a salad ballad....

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If it wasn't for the pessimist
What would the optimist do
They'd have no earthly idea
What was needed to pull through

Or the gravity of the situation 
And how to handle it best
Without the negative of the pessimist
What would fill the optimists head 

Without the doom and gloom of the pessimist
Positive would be a lost cause
My best guess is that the optimist
Needs the pessimist after all...

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In dreams do angels
watch over you? Who
is truly in control as
we take a dreaming stroll?

Sometime I wake and
feel a dark presence
looming, a shadow of
doom and gloom. 

When
we close our eyes and go
to sleep, where do we truly
go? We can't know who we
are going to meet. 

A dark
passenger, what is he after?
Maybe my soul to waste. Yet
through Lord Jesus I'm saved,
I've given my soul to take....

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Now I lay me down to sleep
With tired back
And achy feet.

Today I've been to Hell and back
And still can't seem to hit the sack.

Problems, problems in my head
Heart pounds loud enough 
To wake the dead.

House is silent as a tomb
All around is doom and gloom.

Feel so alone at this late hour
Oh God, if it be within your power
Please let me sleep for one good hour.


Josette Davis Key          2014...

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Oh, how my heart did swoon
When you came to me that day in June
And told me of your doom and gloom

Oh, how my mind was in agony
When you shared with me your misery
And forever altered our reality

Oh, how my soul fell into disarray
When you explained to me that summer day
That you would have to go away

Oh, how I thank the Lord above
When the Spirit descended like a dove
And healed the wounds of a lost love...

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DANCING

 Oh how I love to go a dancing around 
        To the music and its wonderful sound
        In a room so bright and gay 
        With the smell of lilacs wafting away

        But i do not worry if its day or night
        I‘m still dancing with all my might
        And in a very pitch black room                                 
        Amongst all that doom and gloom
        I still love dancing with all my might   ...

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there is no need 
to read this poem
it doesn't have
a lot going on

in no way does it
dive in deep
or keep you on
the edge of your seat

nor lends itself to
a sultry tune
where it speaks of
life's doom and gloom

this poem will not 
start a blaze
with anything 
it has to say

it's not here
to make you think
you'll forget it all
by the time you leave

this poem you really
need not read
because this poem 
doesn't say anything...

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