Short Ennui Poems
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disconnected
jaded and feeling numb
ennui quickly turns to melancholy
AP: Honorable Mention 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
A young man once reveled in whoredom
debauchery, drinking and wardom
then he got old
it has been told
he died then the cause of death boredom
Here's the job for you
"Plenipotentiary" ~
Nah. Been there. Done that.
Note: Not an entry in the
'Exploding Laughter
Contest'
clinging to branches
some leaves with marmalade hue ~
abscission from host
11/7/2020
Any Nature Inspired Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
howmanysyllables used
shadowy sparse
brooding anxious restless
introspection
moments simplified
til the gloom breaks
twilit patches
uninflections
melancholia contrived
in abstract
evocations
exemplified
&unbroken
Life is a sluggish hag,
That along loves to drag;
The best one might do
Is to let it snake around
As it's by its wonts bound.
And if it struggles to roll to its end,
Don't let it start a fight with you;
Simply let it do as it's bent,
For it depends not much upon you,
But it's by wildest whirlings sent.
Silent density has settled,
Like an aural veil.
Ennui bores me with her hungry stare...
And I stare back.
Her contact is a barren performance.
A Goddess pulls at my strings,
But I am music-less.
She will wait in blackness.
Vivacity will, again, pull tight in me,
But until then,
I will sit and submit to my mood.
© 2012
Ruby Honeytip
endless
boredom,
isolated
renditions
survive
to provoke
enchantment
end route....
intrepid
segments
juxtaposed
with irony...
a mocking
presence
meagre..yet..
subtle,
idiomatic
syncopations..
...to frustrate as
I deliberate
endless
boredom,
isolated
renditions
survive
to provoke
enchantment
end route..
intrepid
segments
juxtaposed
with irony-
a mocking
pretence
meagre
yet subtle,
idiomatic
syncopations...
..to frustrate
as
I deliberate
Small towns slowly awaken with the rising dawn
Methodic rhythms of routine move you along
A care-free track of vague irrelevance
The setting sun tucks your life away
Into carefully maintained homes
The town slows to a heartbeat
The night lulls you to sleep
With a final sigh
You start to dream
Perhaps of
Something
More
created 1/1/2015
A world full of syllables
Is so highly tillable;
they ebulliently buoy,
never leading to ennui.
When you’ve got Hong Kong Phooey
with a bowl of chop suey
and a glass of Drambuie,
what else do you need?
Or a wolf man named Gershon
with a camo tutu on
and he’s traipsing ‘cross your lawn,
asking more is just greed.
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H/T to A Playboy’s Toys by Gershon Wolf
Sometimes he has to give himself a hit of nitrous
oxide, when the most exciting thing in his
day is when a second set of incisors
appears behind the first set,
but then he can only refer
the patient's parents to
the orthodontist, who
makes real money,
although the
referral fee
helps.
Still he can’t help wondering if
implants could have helped
Chet Baker’s embouchure.
Flowers, delicate, serene flowers
Bah-
Give me something with power!
Roar of fighting cats,
An eagle soaring toward prey,
A black cloud of vampire bats!
The happy, tinkling bells
of a winter sleigh,
Nay-
Give me a wolf's prowling howl
A hurricane come to land!
The hyena eating a thing so foul,
Nature in the raw, wholly unplanned!
* Inspired by Poetry Soup's own Ashok Niyogi and his poem ENNUI
Honorable Mention in "My Inspiration" contest by Deborah Guzzi
A. Green