Best Coping Poems

wishes keep us dreaming
dreaming keeps us hoping
hoping keeps us living..
living keeps us dreaming

    and so it goes...

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if you could last a day inside the body of 
the lovesick-shell of a human 
i turn into when i'm in love
i would applaud you

allow me to show you a preview first:

as one might think 
loving someone and being in love are 
two vastly different...

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Coping With Hard Economic Times

By Elton Camp

Each new generation was richer than the one before
But it looks like that will never be the case anymore

It seems young families might as well expect to see
What economists now describe as the “new reality”

Their parents came to have...

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I fancy that I am competent  
To write on the theme of fear—
Only because I have spent much of my life in fear
 And thus seem to know the emotion inside out!

Now, coping with fear 
Is something like coping with the unknown.
For irrational fears,...

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COPING WITH POO!

Two young boys left in charge of a baby,
A recipe for disaster that’s no maybe,

Take baby to the local fair,
Without a care, they did dare,

Head for the whip, put baby on one of their laps,
She has missed one of her afternoon naps,

Is out...

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These scars run deep.
Underneath beseeching. 

Motivated by lies.
Veiled inside eyes.

Holding gazes in so long.
Wrapped up in the songs.

Cycling lover's seasons.
Living singing treasons.

Given a million reasons.
Fighting betrayed meaning.

Breathing down goodbyes.
Trying and finalized.

Breaking apart openings.
Silenced beyond coping.

Ruining times of life.
In  memory stealing strife....

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Coping up with life in COVID times

Shake off all your fears,
have no doubts in His might;
You have come so far,
you can still go farther; 

Like a river 
that traverses through rough paths;
Like a mountain
that no hurricanes can move;
Like the Sun 
that shines bright every morning.

Just...

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there’s a silence somewhere that listens and hears
that feels all our pain through the gift of our tears
that helps us to see in that dark which we hide
by shining a light - lit by love - deep inside....

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A little tomboy, covered in dirt.
Mud on her face and all over her shirt.
Taught by her dad ,how to build with wood.
Walked around in her jeans, a sweater and a hood.
Grew up to be smarter than they ever thought.
A classy women, handmade clothes,never bought.

After college...

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When war, politics, prejudice and bigotry are encouraging me to hate
I take a moment to look around…then a love list I create:

I love my wife and my family…how family never ends…
I love that I’m surrounded by a multitude of friends.

I love animals and sunsets…how a...

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Allergy Poem

Pollen, dog hair, mold and dust.
Make my sinus raise a fuss.

Headaches, itchy eyes, histamine.
Many a season I have seen.

Cough drops, tissues, little red pills;
Drug store prescriptions, druggist fills.

Hot tea, lemon juice, local honey;
I have spent a lot of money.

Allergies can drive you wild.
I've had...

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She cried her heart out in the shower this morning 
Desperate, anguishing tears
Uncontrollable, convulsing sobs

Anxiety within was strangling her
Clenching and crippling
Incarcerating her into a frozen-like state

All the while
No one heard her cries
No one shared her suffering

No one knew how defeated she felt
How crumpled her courage...

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Dew
Early morning 
Grace like rain
Renewed day by day
Tranquility


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The sun is up, another morning’s come--
The coffee’s brewed, the eggs and bacon fried,
The sky is bright, the birds are frolicsome—
On such a day, what sorrow could betide?

And yet this cheery masquerade today
Is, by my very reticence, belied,
As if I’m in some strange, absurdist play:
It...

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Emotions***

It is easy for me to let my emotions govern my behavior, as I cope with my emotions.  Carefully, I am following the instructions of my Compass Health Clinician 111. Greg Richardson. Greg is mainly a science fiction writer, who is looking for an...

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