Melancholy & Despair | Giggle Academy

A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Love Heartache & Loss The Mind Memory & Nostalgia Relationships Poetic Terms Verse Forms Sonnet Emotions Melancholy & Despair

What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence.

If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social Commentaries Relationships Friends & Enemies Poetic Terms Meters Free Verse Emotions Anger Blame Humor Melancholy & Despair

i tore down my thoughts roped in my nightmares remembered a thousand curses made blasphemous vows to demons choked on the blood of hosts ??? ate my ha ...

Autobiography By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social Commentaries War & Conflict History & Politics Living Life Choices Activities Jobs & Working Travels & Journeys Arts & Sciences Philosophy Poetic Terms Meters Free Verse Emotions Disappointment Humor Melancholy & Despair

I am leading a quiet life in Mike’s Place every day watching the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor and the French pinball addicts. I am leading a qu ...

Montana Pastoral By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Nature Poetic Terms Stanza Forms Couplet Types/Modes Pastoral Emotions Anxiety & Insecurity Melancholy & Despair

I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where the grasses burn in early May And thistle, mustard, and the wild oat stay.

The Sheep Child By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Love Desire & Passion Heartache & Loss Relationships Pets Poetic Terms Meters Free Verse Emotions Blame Grief Melancholy & Despair

Farm boys wild to couple With anything with soft-wooded trees With mounds of earth mounds Of pinestraw will keep themselves off Animals by legends of ...

Ave Maria By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Living Parenthood Relationships Home Life Activities School & Learning Arts & Sciences Humor & Satire Philosophy Poetic Terms Meters Free Verse Emotions Boredom Melancholy & Despair

Mothers of America ???????????????????????????????????? let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to ...

Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Living Parenthood Relationships Family & Ancestors Occasions Birth Poetic Terms Verse Forms Ballad Emotions Anxiety & Insecurity Disappointment Grief Melancholy & Despair

Some are teethed on a silver spoon, ???With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— ???For implements of battle. Some are ...

Afterimages By Audre Lorde - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social Commentaries Race & Ethnicity History & Politics Emotions Grief Melancholy & Despair

For my majority it gave me Emmett Till his 15 years puffed out like bruises on plump boy-cheeks his only Mississippi summer whistling a 21 gun salute ...