A Great Depression... Poem by Denis Martindale

A solemn mood came over me…
God knows why it appeared…
Revealing inner memory?
Expressing something feared?
A flashback to a childhood state?
Tricks played upon the mind?
Distress caused by a long-felt hate
Eventually to find?
Perhaps a remnant of a dream
Reporting something back?
Extending something quite extreme,
Somehow to stay on track?
So many thoughts of how mood swings
Invade our tranquil hearts…
Or what our melancholy brings
No matter how it starts…


Denis Martindale June 2016.


Written only as an exercise in creating an acrostic poem...