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Maudlin Poems - Poems about Maudlin


Maudlin Tears
The first time you see yourself You cry Torn between bewilderment Flattened by view All white skin Pink and spotty The remnants Of teenage residue The hormones on overload Insanity has come early So easy to bite Everyone pisses themselves laughing When you remove your clothes Now you never undress in the light...

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Categories: maudlin, age, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maudlin Mary
Modeled by the skilled and clumsy hands of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness, a penniless waif appears on a stool last week a stranger called her Mona Lisa. Statuesque upon the betrayer warmed by the lemon-lolly light from bays of north facing windows, blinded; she can but blink. Surrounded...

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Categories: maudlin, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Maudlin Melodies
The whimper of a defenseless child weak and haunting can fill the cup, of melancholy to age a grail of tears. The squeal most animal like as heart is pierced by betrayal a declaration ..almost too real. The bawl of hunger and indignity the red-faced rage of entitlement, the dry-eyed warning hail of men from battlements,...

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Categories: maudlin, introspection, life, loss, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
" In Maudlin Verse "
In maudlin verse his tale was told, Of sailors, ships or captains bold. Naught for us but fancy seemed, Thought mayhap 'twas what he'd dreamed. Of sea or song or adventure grand, We listened well all us of land. As wind caressed our mountains old, In maudlin verse his tale was told. In hope of journey without end, We all to him our ears...

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Categories: maudlin, adventure, song-
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Maudlin
It seems like love, the longing for love, the lingering memory of love; have never been far from my mind. I think I was born maudlin....

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Categories: maudlin, lifelonging,
Form: Free verse



Maudlin Memories
The weakened gate on the south side of the yard Swings and squeaks with every breeze that blows Calling me to mend it, to repair the broken hinge However, it is that call that brings back memories It was a younger us, passing through that very gate I held it open for you and just then, it had...

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Categories: maudlin, life, nostalgiame, me, smile,
Form: Free verse
Maudlin
I have to be careful not to whine the reader deserves better than that....

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Categories: maudlin, life,
Form: Free verse
My Rome Maudlin No More
my eyes have seen the Glory, the glory evermore la de fa et for ever more, Bellet ever more cry no more our amorous our love, we are not Rome but ya yet you will stand for ever more, Stand ever more Rustic their way for evermore one mans waste creators treasure, Muluct never, My bellet afa eta love for...

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Categories: maudlin, devotion, nostalgia, passion, sad,
Form: ABC
Maudlin Man
This boozes shan't stop my fig From scourging my fair filly From promenading zag-zig From boozing nilly-willy I love to gulp Not because i am moneyed Not because i bore my relation off Not because of my job which i misplaced I will wage war On those who press me to breathalyse On those who pity me from the law On those, who my early death,they...

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Categories: maudlin, confusion, people, me, drink,
Form: Rhyme

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