Best Glimmer Of Hope Poems

Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the...

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I balance on a tightrope. Surrounded by 
lovers and dreamers, I teeter above a raging sea.
I admire their glossy smiles and envy
their bright-eyed confidence; envy...

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Night Meets the River

The deep night sky meets the river
With stars sparkling in ripples below
The water moves with a quiver
To a kiss around the bend,...

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Lost in the world, no direction, no love, to be found,
No one cares for you, animosity knows no bounds.
When you're off course, you need not...

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Sponsor: Eve Roper

There was a day last week that I felt alone and sad,
   I carried days...

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Perched on an altar of stone,
Enduring the weather of time.
	She waits...

A marble heart laments,
Sorrow...forever etched...as,
	She waits...

Her eyes filled with a glimmer of hope,
Embracing her lonely...

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The sun is burning my eyes, my hands and my feet
Harsh light scorches the ground, setting it ablaze
The heat brings out the pests and flies.
I...

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I squeeze myself, turn the music off…

~ You Need To Be Here ~

I close my eyes, scream in my head…

~ You Need To Be Here...

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In this small square room of mental illusion,
I look at my reflection in a state of desolation.
I'm not what I am in this state of...

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The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest

Into the utter darkness of cold oceans dwelling deepest,
there is far beyond any glimmer of hope an outer limit
that...

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For years and years
I lived the curse of all women

A woman’s work in never done
That is, never finished
The more work I did the more work...

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It's breathtaking! So I am often told:
The sparkle in a mother's loving eyes;
The glint of an amorous joy in a coy bride;
The hearthside gleam on...

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Just when your world collapses

To the point of fall apart

There still resides a tiny spark

Deep within your hungry heart

The tiniest of slivers 

A slight glimmer...

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There's a lost little girl
Roaming this world
Searching for truth and for love
Aimlessly seeking
Never reaping
All she is deserving of

There's a lost little girl
Giving life a whirl
While...

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Getting away from all of you;
Getting away from me;
Letting go of my past;
letting go of me;
looking for a way out;
looking a way out of me;
taking...

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We write of hate
We write of love
And other things 
We know something of

At different angles
Add our lines
Take a spin
With what we find

Fact or fiction
Lies or...

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Some days you're thrown an I just don't know
Other days it's all right there
A glimmer of hope in which to cope
A fresh breath of poetic...

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A shining light where no one can see,
A breath of fresh air where no one can breathe,

A glimmer of hope in a place filled with...

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You only know my name you don’t know my story
But you’re so quick to judge as if for the way 
I love my life you...

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Pick Yourself Up – Dust Yourself Down

Is there a glimmer of hope in this convoluted soup
Is there a sign that all is not such a...

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PROLOGUE
May 1979, Mount Druitt, Sydney, Australia

I was kneeling on the bathroom floor with my head over the toilet bowl. I felt sick. I felt nauseous,...

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Grandmother Moon cherishes me, 
kisses my forehead with her light. 
She reigns supreme over her kingdom, 
smiling down upon this humble spirit. 

I whisper to...

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I Have No Bucket List!
No hopes, No dreams, Nothing I want to do?
Life has shown me many things and taken me many places. Some have...

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I was sitting in the crowded train station with time to waste, waiting on the train to take me home on Christmas Eve.  A...

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I feel tempted, dishonest, unlawful, inadequate, sinful, and incomplete. I thrive on hate, I fixate on pain, and I dwell on jealousy, my anger becomes...

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