Best Hardship Poems

Be faithful through hardship

Bite the bullet and get a grip


Be faithful through hardship

Be fearless in times of trouble

Be not doubtful and be hopeful

Have happiness, you mournful soul


We may go through tribulations

That get us frustrated and hurt

But, know that you are stronger 

Than you realize –...

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Speaking quite frankly, I must say,
The burden of time grows heavier each day.
Reason stares cruelly, but I can only view blankly.
Growing angrier, shortsighted, and cranky.

In the past three hundred and sixty-five days,
Each moment seems to bestow the weight that stays.
Tasks pile up, deadlines loom,
Tick-tock of...

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Through the hardships so many endure,
Is there anything I could say that would help you here
Nothing I do and nothing I say,
Could make that pain simply go away.
I can tell you that I know how you feel,
But we all know that sometimes that's not real.
Each...

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The Gods in the skies of the stars do 
dwell and live.
They see our sad tears and 
heartbreaks sown on cliffs.
Who truly does know their severe 
regiment
Which makes this small race into 
true supermen?

Hardships are blessings that excel 
mankind.
Forged were not swords without the 
forges'...

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Nothing in my life has ever been anything like this.
When I started my company it was nothing but bliss.
I invented a company called “The Edit Centre”
Back in ’86, I was quite the inventor.

The business model was to transfer movie film and edit videos
So family memories...

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Relation next relationships are on par with a hardship 
Entirely relationships are analogous to the April 15th, 1912 Titanic ship 
It’s stunning how the body is motionless although The Relationships of Love turn acrobatic flips  
The Tom & Jerry show, Chasing Love you’ll injure...

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I think love isn't what we need. 
It's a clear mind with motive to think otherwise about feeling like it's worth the time. 
I, think it's a trend, lead by lies and I have lead myself to think that people like to feel affected by...

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So after the sale I had a bunch of cash
But I was too honest to bury that stash.
I settled my debts with all my credit cards.
And figured I’ll start over, it couldn’t be that hard.

I didn’t realize how truly bad the economy is.
And after 200...

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It takes courage to believe,
we can move the mountains.
Until our time ends,
we still live facing hardship to ease.


Kota Kinabalu...

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In the winter morning
Diamond fogs play on spiky grasses.
The rising sun is my friend then.

Not pigeons but crows flying on this town
In winter, the feathers are crystal black.
Then cawing is my morning song.

Town streets of dawn are not alone.
Female garments workers are busy.
Like the butterflies...

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No matter our struggles, our toils;
One day the wind will carry our dust 
carelessly across windblown fields.
Why worry, why put so much meaning
Into things that do not matter.
Really, what are we masters at,
Certainly, it is not living.
The reason for all this, don't you worry.
In our...

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ugly
ducklings
their
nicknames
through
highschool
surviving
to
become
swans



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on April 9, 2019 for contest SUDDENLY SWANS sponsored by MAUREEN McGREAVY...

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life, you’ve dealt me blows
left and right
some underhand and outright dirty
come on - don’t pretend it isn’t so

while it’s true 
what doesn’t kill you
makes you stronger
it never seems so 
at the time

but through the years
the many nagging losses
sure do prepare you
for the big ones

whipped into...

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The death winter came and was cold
With white on the purple mountain
The Tiwahe’, the Standing Rock People
Begged for warm fires from Iktinie the Sun Spirit
Our mouths were hungry and bodies were weak

Iya’ the Snow Monster had taken us farther to the south 
To follow Capa...

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The mind is a mysterious vessel
It carries decisions and memories of yesterday but
No matter how many whiskeys, they will not disappear
It replays life altering choices
Alongside choices not made, in a whine
A stamp of regret imprinted on the brain 
The only way to erase it, through...

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