Ho Hum, the Doldrums
Ho hum, the doldrums:
I twiddle my thumbs
and scratch my bum.
I bumble ‘round,
and when I’m done,
I murmur, mumble, humph and hum.
Ding-dong, the same old song:
I bang my drum
and clang my gong;
I even brought
my bell along.
Tinkle, ting, naw, that’s just wrong.
Tick tock, flip flop
My brain is oozing
gloopy glop.
That metered click:
where is my glock?
Bang! that clock and make
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Categories:
the doldrums, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
The Doldrums
Blend into a state of nothingness within a yawn
forgetting to remember and beyond
Slip into a drip floating through a stream
being META is now everything
Please the senses while the brain is numb
all the knowledge while becoming dumb
Locked into a world that does not exist
reality forfeited for an emotional lift
Why real when fake is better
signature is DNA
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Categories:
the doldrums, addiction, technology,
Form: Rhyme
The Doldrums
The Doldrums of 2020
Hullabaloo, nothing to do.
the doldrums latch on to you.
Rickity dink, slippery slimy slue.
We scheme, we plot, we fold and cry a lot ! ! ! !
We fan, we plan, exhausted, but not an also ran,
We heap accolades upon tarnished shards of hope.
Yet find our very best advice lies in
a good hot
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Categories:
the doldrums, introspection, sound, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
The Doldrums
The Doldrums of 2020
Hullabaloo, nothing to do.
the doldrums latch on to you.
Rickity dink, slippery slimy slue.
We scheme, we plot, we fold and cry a lot ! ! ! !
We fan, we plan, exhausted, but not an also ran,
We heap accolades upon tarnished shards of hope.
Yet find our very best advice lies in
a good hot
...
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Categories:
the doldrums, introspection, sound, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
The Doldrums
The Doldrums of 2020
Hullabaloo, nothing to do.
the doldrums latch on to you.
Rickity dink, slippery slimy slue.
We scheme, we plot, we fold and cry a lot ! ! ! !
We fan, we plan, exhausted, but not an also ran,
We heap accolades upon tarnished shards of hope.
Yet find our very best advice lies in
a good hot
...
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Categories:
the doldrums, introspection, sound, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
The Doldrums
Depression is expression extinguished
It doesn't question and it doesn't distinguish
Through its progression hope is relinquished
For the "Depression is...a short poem" contest
12-4-2016
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Categories:
the doldrums, absence, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Doldrums of March
The day is dull, almost
shadowless. I am alone; shadow
would have given me comfort.
Pages of ancient tomes,
full of must, call me;
there is always comfort here.
I light lamps
damning the florescent pall.
When bathed in the flicker
florescent lit walls become
blue-tinged harbingers of death.
I worship beneath the
shadow-casting gold of incandescence.
The 300-watt glow of my love-gifted
torchiere
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Categories:
the doldrums, loneliness, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
The Doldrums
coming in like a tidal wave over the knoll
they do not ask if the time is right to tear up your life into
miniscule pieces
(broken like a pane of glass slamming down on cement, having fallen from a few stories up)---
instead they visit when you think life has finally brought you
peace---
they infest, like termites burrowed in
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Categories:
the doldrums, life, life,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
the doldrums, seasons,
Form: Lanterne