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Best Discouraging Poems

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Premium Member Four Cafes
High above the quiet, darkened streets of January, the night wind begins to whisper secrets through my apartment window casements. Far below me lie four...

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Categories: discouraging, character, drink, eve, humanity,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Tongues
The Lying Tongue
sang a song
The Flattering Tongue
played along
The Know It All Tongue
intended the composition
The Meddling Tongue
held it's position
The Harsh Tongue
kept quiet for once
The Tactless Tongue
reluctantly...

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Categories: discouraging, 10th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Dear Lord I'Ve Been Hurt and Abused
Dear Jesus...  I've Been Hurt and Abused...

I've been hurt so much... 
I don't feel like "going on."
It feels like "everything I do turns out...

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Categories: discouraging, caregiving, confusion, daughter, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Jesus, I Need Victory Over a Habit
Jesus, I Need Victory Over a Habit!

This habit has a hold of me. ..
 I can’t seem to break it!
I’ve tried many times,  but...

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Categories: discouraging, conflict, desire, hope, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Open Handed Thief
The birdfeeder hung on a narrow limb,
away from deck rails, discouraging squirrels.

No problem for the little robber 
who raided the feeder day by day.
Repeatedly, he...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discouraging, animal, food, tree,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A String of Thoughts
If all is of mind, then what are we doing?
Physical life, is it worth pursuing?
So discouraging, so immature,
How can mere man, ever endure?

The mind can...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discouraging, blessing, creation, dream, god,
Form: Rhyme
Andrea Dietrich
Angelic words she places in lines with care.
Never heard a discouraging word, she did share.
Deeper emotions she does write so clear.
Reality is her concern, realism...

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Categories: discouraging, dedication, friendship, happiness, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unending Grace

I wonder at what lesson had been taught 
abandoning the gift I treasured most...
in every dream conceived, you held me close.
Yet, now, each tear I...

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Categories: discouraging, dream, endurance, fear, heartbreak,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Discarded a True Story of Healing
A song by the Allman Brothers, titled Melissa, I was, hearing Sweet Mellisa over and over, while writing this.
 The Story begins as a teenaged...

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Categories: discouraging, birth, encouraging, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sun Shines In Rabbit Holes Too
sigh ...
there is no shortage
of gloom and doom these days
we are in the midst of something unseen in our time
and the fear and hysteria is...

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Categories: discouraging, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Wisdom Was Found
WISDOM WAS FOUND

The day moves me into this ultimate search
Of the principality that Lords over life
And rules over Kings, nobles, aged and Princes
As my desire...

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Categories: discouraging, 2nd grade, bible, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep - 1
Now I lay me down to sleep…

I pray that God will always be there
Holding me within His loving embrace
Whispering to me of gentleness and grace
Reassuring...

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Categories: discouraging, god, good night, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Attitude
Attitude 
Tom Wright
11-10-2016

Discouraging words are uttered every day,
And the most hurtful I hear is “I don’t care.”
Dudes get uptight when not getting their way,
That is...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discouraging, emotions, words,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member String of Thoughts
If all is of mind, then what are we doing?
Physical life, is it worth pursuing?
So discouraging, so immature,
How can mere man, ever endure?

The mind can...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discouraging, blessing, creation, dream, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style
~ You  Are My  Light  ~
( Daveda's  Hybrid  Concrete Candle)



~O~



 Dear 
 Lord 
 You're 
 My Light 
 You...

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Categories: discouraging, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things