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Torpor Poems - Poems about Torpor

Torpor
...I have been accepting that I lost my courage to be vulnerable, and I hovered over words that would not flow, For my emotional tsunami hides in the insufferable, I was just afraid to let this ach......

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Categories: torpor, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Paracosm is a Cure
...The decadence of one hundred – maybe one thousand – hands and running mouths. Wynorrific red-yellow cultivates my brain with torpor; when did the ground shake? Oh solace, it is the on......

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Categories: torpor, color, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dream-Cast Realm
...Asclepius, one cannot build from sand, Such light and shifting grains as mortals be. The wind and tide shall warp what e’er is planned, Foundations fade before the pounding sea. And yet, when gra......

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Categories: torpor, allegory, dream, myth, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trigger Fingers
...I’ve got a thesaurus and a gun arming torpor trigger fingers; Poetry at point blank range, silver bullet savage; Deliberate verse detonated, you never felt the hit.......

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Categories: torpor, words, writing,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member The Mask of Black Spinel
... Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber, Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number. I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall, The aching w......

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Categories: torpor, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet



Wild Pursuits
...The Psyche aye seeks an end to sling Its filaments wide across and all around , To ensnare it's weird, stray prey with a fling And there comes the ominous web, ill- bound To stay ......

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Categories: torpor, life, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member DIVINITY
... Dive in deep ! Enjoy awakening from stupor surpassing torpor. Confusion may quarrel. Consciousness runs parallel. Dive in deep ! Enjoy ......

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Categories: torpor, angel, introspection,
Form: Tanka
Fatigue
...Just another long afternoon Of another long long day Mind numbing weariness That just won’t go away. My eyelids are heavy I just want to sleep For once no need To be counting sheep The cat i......

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Categories: torpor, anxiety, depression, hope, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quiescent
...“Activity makes my life colorful. To be quiescent is relaxing, but when it prolongs, I feel I am dead.” – By Poet Day after day passes With rarely a purpose to fulfill Thoughts a......

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Categories: torpor, feelings, life, missing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Winter's Slumber Land
... Cold winds, the assassins of startled vegetation, blow in with late autumn. Snow arrives to cover the terrain with blankets of white, pristine feathery snow; meanwhile, some bodie......

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Categories: torpor, sleep, winter,
Form: Free verse
The Live-in -- Part 1 of 3
...Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score – While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-ling......

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Categories: torpor, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Hummingbird That Loves the Cold
...We noticed her at the feeder…hovering…and humming…she does not tweet a hummingbird in October….attentively watching all the other birds eat. So we put out our hummingbird feeder which immediately......

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Categories: torpor, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hunting Trust In Adversity
...Written: September 07, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ I can't sleep at night, so I stay alive. I am awake, and I search and strive. I'm no warri......

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Categories: torpor, allusion, anger, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Avoiding Kryptonite
..."He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens." Carl Gustave Jung Be not manacled, bound or tightly tethered to a ......

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Categories: torpor, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Indolence
...An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints......

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Categories: torpor, boyfriend, grandmother, happiness, morning,
Form: Free verse

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