Short Melancholia Poems

Teenage
anguish abates,
melancholia lifts-
anticipation erupts in
perfume....

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In sadness grows a weeping fruit,

One sweet, yet sour,

A tasteful melancholia....

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Physicians say
  A limerick a day
    helps keep melancholia away
I say, a limerick's a poet's child's play...

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A blood’s cry dulled eerily from ghosts,
Had its jarred kisses like melancholia noon on purpled quab,
Righteous sanity to undone vain whirlwind, 
xylophoning, yet zephyr....

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A mourning dove coos
               Its distinctive tale of woe
                                     At the break of dawn


Date written and posted: 01/05/2019...

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steps of
           sound
quiet 
            intervals

pause:

     one finger
sans
        chords:
ongoing
         sadness
in
      melancholia

Inspired by YouTube clip of Satie's Vexations...

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a confined abyss
dis ease,born of despair-
early morning mist
evanescing in
new light-giving care

You may hear me recite this tanka verse and much of my PS poetry on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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The realm
of the mind,
where dream
           abounds
private,tender
ravaged by rhetoric
where confusion
             struggles
with truth:
melancholia breathes
secret intrigues..
the anodyne..
        prevails...

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sunbeams through the leaves

shattered on the pavement

fragments of a summer

which I don't want to stop

nostalgia fills me up

reminiscing about those days

when happiness was all I felt

and laughter was all I heard...

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Sad but true
I miss you
Abruptly
Most surely

Why did you go?
My heart hurts
Arterial stabs
Pain redecorated

Darkness floods
Wet eyes weary
Painful melancholia
Grief prolongs




Leon Enriquez
19 March 2016
Singapore...

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MELANCHOLIA PICTURED
Deep
waters
whirl in a
melancholy
pool

the
eyes show
subjection,
&
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Duel Ekphrasis -inspired by both
 the Whirlpool by Isaac Lentan
&Head (portrait) by Watteau...

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shadowy sparse
        brooding anxious restless
        introspection
moments simplified
      til the gloom breaks
twilit patches
             uninflections
              melancholia contrived
in abstract
            evocations 
              exemplified
&unbroken...

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 indigo moonbeam
Mere mortal deeply asleep
Shadow surge on wall

Indistinct movement
Particle of existence
Memories recalled.  

Melancholia
Sleeping face ignites sadness
Desolate heartache. 

Shimmering shadow
Lover's shade imparts soft kiss
Indigo moment....

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Tonight 

I rediscovered 

Boulevard of Broken 

Dreams on a jaunt through 

Glasgow’s October-lit streets. Rain 

drippin’ off chin. Momentarily wishing 

I was more like I was back then. Funny how 

I’m now bolder to touch. This strange & honeyed  

melancholia…. how it grins already for each tomorrow....

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See beyond mere sense, look
The steep way forfeits book

Bubbles in mystic bath
Sense leaking waters rough

Fault finds moves that fumble
In dying distant dangle

Slide upon the slippery
We all fall down easy

Lost souls I remembered
Dying bruised and battered




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2016
Singapore...

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Away, Melancholia
rhymless
life striken root

Away, Melancholia
you 
dandelion sun
terrace shadow
want of want

Melancholia,
gateless fable
withheld of word
of that unwalked path

Melancholia.
you are owed no
explaination,
have no spoken rath
but still
I walk through
your time
to tell your story,

I am sorry.
Leave me....

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Late at night when I feel low
I listen to the Stranger on the Shore
As the haunting clarinet plays
I see an emerald sea with one on shore looking back at me

The the full moon on Moon River
With the reflection making such perfection
And the Summer Place I look for 
In my dreams of other days
And the melancholia will not leave me.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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by Mark Miller © 12/21/2016

Void of heart's love,
Desolate doldrums above-

Mournful Melancholia,
Morose melody-

Severed goodbyes,
Time doleful cry's

Deject filled grief,
Subject denied relief 

Internal aches,
Death's depot awaits-

Complicit plot,
Sculpted lies a flock-

Head out west,
For blissful rest-

Forever in wait,
Flames heat passion
?...

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melancholia
       memories
emoting
           tears,
forgotten
          years
             awake:
regrets
          surface
lost love
         remembered,
words unsaid,
      recalled
raw
        emotions
crescend
            descend
      die,
the tide of life
ebbs...
     no longer ...flows

words as listening to youtube clip of Mahler's adagio from Symphony no 5...

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Sad sad sighs
Wet tears cry


Sad sad looks
Wet tears hook


Tale not told
Cold feels cold


Bones feel cold
Old thoughts fold


Sad meets sad
Touch feels mad


Bad knows bad
Sad not glad


Sad breathes sigh
Pain hurls cries


Cry and cry
Sigh to sigh


Look at sad
Just not glad


Hook bleeds try
More to cry




Leon Enriquez
11 December 2017
Singapore...

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My mother clad me in pink,
and later in my teens, lavender.
But the blue was always there,
underneath the pastel colors.
It was in my genes,
blue with its melancholia
and myriad synonyms,
azure and cerulean.
My mood is a spectrum
of different shades of blue,
including royal and navy.
The sky and the sea are blue,
with every variation in between,
turquoise and indigo.
Blue is behind my strawberry colored smile....

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It was spirit of the time.
The lethal trade of-
missiles, someone was sending free.

You collect the cachet 
of bleak weather. The 
roses were in bloom.

Trying to conceive the 
buttercups in the blue- 
frame of melancholia.

I err, and find myself 
in sleep after the contact.
A genetic gratitude overwhelms.

You catch the stings 
blindly. The other sin will 
take care of itself in blood.



Satish Verma...

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Midwinter
melancholia
winter ignites gloomy thoughts
counting down 'till spring

Spring under Snow
snow-capped Wicklow hills
yellow gorse silently sleeps
spring's spell lies in wait

So Cold
winter please be gone
your frigid breath's unwelcome
winter please be gone

Pixabay image by: Prettysleepy...

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Going insane? Am I losing my mind?
Happiness seems to have been left behind.
Look at us all, why are we so sad?
Acting ‘depressed’ and ‘suicidal’ like it’s some kind of fad.
Is it just a sick joke to you? Find this amusing?
While people are out there, a true battle against melancholia they fight, but they’re losing. 
“I don’t feel shit”, people say, “Everything is numb”
Despondency, and depression aren’t cool. What have we become?...

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It returns to haunt, 
the dilemma, of disowning 
the old version of truth;
when I was searching the parallelism
for the sake of otherness.

The unreturning melancholia, 
brings the surreal intruder, 
I did not want to entertain.

The insane activity of heart 
wants a sin uncommitted.

The flirt eyes like a tulip 
between your fingers, 
unrolling the tender petals.

Night throws the salt on the moon.

There were no tears.


Satish Verma...

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