July 5, 2004
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ElectricPoetry
"Questioning Depression Couplets"
poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
July 5th, 2004 7:00 am pdt
Dost thou walk upright, steady, peaceful, whole?
Or should these wiley snags flush, burbling, down the bowl?
Are odes to silence written in a wisp of sadness?
Might hurried glances deign to smite pure gladness?
Am I, again, the concrete rock so chipped and sore?
Why is this full foul sadness knocking at my bolted door?
For ev'ry life I've touch'd, have I but seemed to quit?
What causes limbs to shaking, this frightful little fit?
For look upon the battlements, the fatal berm of consequence.
The ease with which to slip, and fall makes small amount of sense.
Yet down fall I, upon the ground, with bleeding, tearful eyes
So out of touch and loveless, not a whim within me prys.
Blue, faultless pain, again, again,
No sunshine brightens after rain.
What questions can be asked, or answers seek?
When diaphanous deliriums crawl through where sadness sneak.
I cannot exist in time, in tide, with will so callow
As days begin with petty pain, and fulsome sorrows fallow.
Those same damn questions hamper, guileless, at my soul
Was this the idle circumstance of which the Gods' foretold?
Depression lives among my manic searches for the truth,
And wipes complacent solace from my slate as still I sleuth.
Dost thou pretend to care, sweet life, ebullient, whole?
Shant I begin to flush these feelings, burbling, down the bowl?
No matter how the conscience tries, to eradicate the pall,
I still harbor this empty feeling that I haven't given all,
So questioning depression couplets rhyme with pain and loss
For love forgotten, tear stained, sodden, shall my words emboss.
Dost thou who read me, realize that words can do so little?
And at my look of sadness at the pain which does so whittle.
Carving up my platitudes to life's mistakes are petty
I'll live with questioning depression watching from the jetty
Oh, that happiness wouldst shine upon my life again
Perhaps those questioning depressions shall but eke without my pen."Questioning Depression Free Verse"
poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
Monday, July 5th, 2004 8:00 am pdt
Constant crescendoes, creating undulations of vivid vitality,
Harbor no petty painful peccadilloes
Yet as one sits, unconnected with purpose,
Flighty, fleeting questions pound as suffering seafoam
Sloshing serenity and suitable circumstances from my being
Encroaching enmity amongst my myriad meanderings,
Unloosing my mind from it's prevarications of profundity
Beginning the dire journey anew without wariness
Nothing helps to assuage the calamity
Encouraged by the questioning of depression
Nothing serves to stay the roiling waters within me
Nothing calms nor slakes my thirst for purposeful existence
And the questioning depressions claw within and without
With a hungering purpose unknown and unwanted
Shall I not breathe with the ease of unfettered comfort?
Shall I not walk through a day without fear of depression?
Shall I not give of myself to others
That they might feel refreshed and relinquish their fears?
Shall the questions, ingrained in perpetuity, finally cease?
And bring the poet perfect, solid, soothing peace?
As the long days flow into one another, as the dirge
The constant crescendoes of depression, stayed, slowly full emerge.The day began with a fit of depression, and hopefully I worked it out in verse. These "mirror" verses, one in rhyme, and one without, deal with the same subject of depression. Tomorrow things get "back to normal" and I go to WORK, where depression seldom visits, because stress already has an appointment!
A coupla people actually "signed my blog" today. I used to like "guestbooks" back in the "early days of the internet", ca. 1998 or so, and was sort of noticing that guestbooks had gone away. These Xanga folks have made the whole website a guestbook. I've been surfing amongst fellow Xangafolk for the past few hours, and it makes me think I spend too much time on the computer.
But interaction with humanity is never a bad thing, and people should eventually find out that we are actually more similar than different, but hey, I'm playing an old tune, now, aren't I? I'm almost "done" watching my friend's copy of Mike Todd's "Around the World in 80 Days" so I should return the "loan" to him next week. The transfer is excellent, and I took a snap of one of the scenes in the film to use as my group photo on the ElectricPoetry group this week.
Comments (44)
you are so eloquent with your words...but I remembered that you have had some practice at this...I love your style..I especially loved the rhymes....but I loved the character of the second poem...You are indeed a very talented soul...thanks for the visit..my twin is just sometimes very mean...but I guess she has that right ...Dorothea
:yes:
I am awed with the 18th century feel of this poetry. Your words are so beautifully chosen and I could feel the depression of it, hopefully you wrote yourself through it, but its odd how such beautiful verse comes from sadness. This is awesome and beautiful.
outstanding poetry!
i love free verse so of course my favorite poem of the two would be the second.... rhyme and i just don't mesh. but i do love your way with words and will return again!
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