My Melancholy

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My Melancholy

Post by Lightning Rod » October 22nd, 2010, 11:58 am

my melancholy moans and makes
a morbid meditation moribund
dreams of drab events and
drabber possibilities
every hazard and calamity
every pain and twitch noticed
and pondered and
mulled in my melancholy

my melancholy is a machine
the motor-oil is cold and slow
I beat myself with rubber bats
anything could go wrong
any part could fail
in the magnet of my melancholy
all poles are south
the compass needle simply spins
in the Northern Hemisphere

my melancholy is better than nothing
a perpetual dentist's chair
where numbness is at least
one up on pain
my melancholy doesn't ask for strain
merely endurance
"These words don't make me a poet, these Eyes make me a poet."

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Re: My Melancholy

Post by Doreen Peri » October 22nd, 2010, 12:09 pm

good poetry... nice piece!

lots of allegoric anticeptic altruistic alliteration

love the line
I beat myself with rubber bats
and these, too
my melancholy is a machine
the motor-oil is cold and slow

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Re: My Melancholy

Post by judih » October 22nd, 2010, 1:41 pm

and this succinct self-portrait:
I beat myself with rubber bats
anything could go wrong
any part could fail

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Re: My Melancholy

Post by saw » October 23rd, 2010, 11:15 am

a meteoric mouthful of munchies, mr. clay......very enjoyable
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Re: My Melancholy

Post by hester_prynne » October 24th, 2010, 10:55 pm

Indeed, this is a read more than oncer...
Love it, as usual
H 8)
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Re: My Melancholy

Post by joel » October 26th, 2010, 12:21 pm

Um, and yes to you and to every post written in response. I felt this one...and am relating today.
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Re: My Melancholy

Post by Michael » October 26th, 2010, 4:28 pm

feel a fear of facing future
views, vain and vacuous;
as abject absence
feigns friendship,
turning terra firma
into a
simple sinkhole?

I do.

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