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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

DIVINITY

...
  
        Dive in deep ! Enjoy
        awakening from stupor
        surpassing torpor.
        Confusion may quarrel.
        Consciousness runs parallel.

        Dive in deep ! Enjoy 
 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hunting Trust In Adversity

...Written: September 07, 2023
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I can't sleep at night, so I stay alive.
I am awake, and I search and strive.
I'm no warri...

Avoiding Kryptonite

..."He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens."
                                                                  Carl Gustave Jung

Be not manacled, bound or tightly tethered
to a ...

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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