Short Glum Poems

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glum cauliflower
buds flowers to fractal shoots
it's Romanesco...

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Departures sidewalk, drizzle-lustrous,
Beneath dull sky reflects glum kiss....

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Melancholy
Glum despondence
Drifting, dreaming, mourning
Cycle of unending demotivation
Dejection...

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Wild horses
Pink panthers
Headless chickens
Blue a**ed flies 
Fail to bring meaning
When I'm feeling glum...

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I like to chuckle, laugh or smile,
As being glum just aint my style.

21st August for Seren’s What Makes You Tick contest...

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The sun

The sun,
Makes everything sunny,
It looks likes honey,
The sun,
Only a nature-hater would call the sun glum....

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema was dutch
but England came to love so much
His famous ' The Tempidarium ' 
viewing it none could be glum...

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Big bite
Delight

Last chunk
Heart sunk

Fat tum
Feel glum

Big thighs
She cries

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20th August 2014...

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Some bum
       drank rum

     Fi - fie
       fo - fum

     Blood smelled
       he yelled

     Turned glum
       'twas Mum...

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When I made my birthday cake wish
A cockroach hopped onto my dish
More frisky than some
It looked rather glum
When it found the cake was not fish...

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She pooh-poohed his smallish gift.
He looked glum and she looked miffed.
	No diamond in sight,
	She did not delight.
Her love for him was set adrift....

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happy hellos do make us smile - but those glum goodbyes oft make us cry


December 21, 2018

Contest 'One-Liner Hello and Goodbye'
Sponsored by Silent One...

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He was named Joseph Steven McBride
He never had any fun it can’t be denied.
His life was all glum
Of joy he had none.
Since he never lived, he still hasn’t died....

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To the half witted and handsome prince
Was born a pair of fraternal twins
All through that fateful night
Glum and sleepless he sat
Confused who fathered one of the twins!...

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Dwelling with the gracious Lord
Traces righteousness and worthiness
Enlivening my glum life
Dwelling with the Almighty
Embraces blessings and gratefulness
Animating His faithful life...

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My jowls are large
They make me look glum
I am not though
Said Viking Dog Hum

Where did you get your helmet?
Asked an inquisitive cat
I was born with it on
What do you think of that?...

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Hey loser
I see your coffee
Seen you reach for
what is offy

Got me bad
Saw you're mad
Sucks to see it
Insults my dad

Who you kidding
Not too bright
Sucks to be you
Not my fight...

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To Florence Had To Succumb

To Florence we frantically did succumb;
Disaster struck and were sad and glum;
Water flowed,
Then slowed;
Results had been grand total of the sum.

Jim Horn...

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A three ply loo roll felt rather glum

They do not say thanks when they wipe their bum

But now it's a hero

We're down to zero

Sandpaper makes the bottom rather numb


13th April 2020...

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Things will fall into place, you say
if you truly believe, good things will come
you also believe in Santa, to my dismay
metaphorically perhaps, but still glum
I still believe, all though I am numb...

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Does how we see ourselves
Alter this world's outlook?
If uncommendably, would each
Not for it be mistook
Summer, winter? Day, night?
Dread to think! And yet I
Once, of that glum spirit, seized
Hibernating did lie....

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You sound glum
When you say 
Hugs 
To me
Like
Do you really mean it?
I wonder in this strange dance of life

Hugs
Passive or active
  Energy travels
Either way
 Do these mean 
The same to you 
They mean to me?...

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My teeth they are bright and the dentist glum.
No wonder he perks up at brother’s thumb.
Oh my it is wet.
Poor brother, the threat —
Quit sucking or dentist will brace your gums!

1/9/2019
Limerick Ii Contest/Joseph May...

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forced solitude
compulsory confinement
freedom from the sun

tall walls
large locks
glum guards

the soundless flow of time
yawning years
freedom of thoughtlesness

timed routines
in a timeless atmosphere
feigned freedom...

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from a winged elm tree
a wren's knife cuts through glum dawn ~
                            joyful day afoot



A New Hiku Footle Tanka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 11/15/2022...

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