Best Hope Pain Poems

Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the kids
just naked silence, from raging of black rapids
From heavens above, truest of gifts handed down
romance sent, from He that wears...

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When hurt is embedded, so deeply within
how does one remove it, where do they begin?

The decay begins slowly, when a life starts a-rotting
and it cannot be changed by planning or plotting

It's not be chased, nor coaxed from it's lair,
not left to escape and vanish into...

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I stand here, on twisted limbs
Teetering upon broken knees
My feet stunted, unnatural
Thickly traitorous to motion

I force forward, to meet agony
Blades of pain, penetrating
Through torturous phantom minutes
Of solitary, sacrificial steps

These feet once danced
A tricky beat
Carried the obligation
Of force
And the belief of boldness
Now these feet
Are brittle and...

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When relentless grief plows your heart 

And intolerable is the pain 

Forget not, to sow your dream's seed, 

At harvest, you would know your gain!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       14 May 2022...

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In mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous wind chime chatter.

My brother blew in through the rattling gate
accompanied by October’s cruelest gale.
Eyes unwillingly wide, levered by a crowbar
his...

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If tears were rain
A river would find me
Drowning 
Drifting away 
Though love is pain
Can’t leave it behind me
Yearning 
Wanting to stay

Where will it end
Can rainbows be certain 
Waiting 
Learning to pray 
Sun, be my friend 
Tear open the curtain 
Hoping 
To see a new day...

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Author Dana Redricks
August 5, 2018

Although my body is consumed 
with pain, and it seems a dark
cloud seems to hover above
No matter what we go through
We are surrounded by God's love
Although my body fails me here
One day I will have a body 
that never fails
We will...

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Canvasing the world as we solder metal bandages to wooden wings

We attempt to cover pain by silencing what our scars sing

A noted tension with a vulnerable assist

Showcases hope and a life we refuse to resist

The porcelain skin that encompasses our ceramic hearts

Shatters with words, fragile...

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My wife Irina's from Ukraine
  Right now her heart is filled with pain
From cries of distant friends who fear
  The End of Days may well be near

I hold her hand as she sheds tears
  as Hope can all but disappear...
It's then she...

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Out of the crack, a life did rise, 
A fragile bloom beneath the skies. 
No gentle rain, no nurturing hand, 
Just broken stones, a barren land.

But still, it fought, it clawed its way, 
Toward the sun, it longed for day. 
A tiny shoot, a will...

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As I see the sky, 
Some birds are flying across,  So I turn back home. 
 
Sleeping on my bed, 
         I close my eye and dreaming,    Thinking in my head. 
 ...

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African-American and abusive, my late step-dad 
     was a reverse racist:
an army sergeant; a Vietnam vet; and, a backhand,
     face-hitting sadist.

I once bemoaned that I was a white child
     (as if it were...

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I sleep.
Enfolded in peace.
The agony and pain
Disappear:
The burning, the sorrow, the flame
Enfolded in peace.

I wake.
Entranced by life.
Remembering fire
Inside;
Death before sleep, and now
Entranced by life. 

I rise.
Enraptured by flight.
The strength within
Burning. 
Spreading my wings, I soar
Enraptured by flight....

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In the dreary whisper of midnight’s groan,
when streets escape the punctured cry
of thinning breaths, a line of stars blinks
trading some warmth with human arms...

beyond numbing sighs this dark possesses,
there are more wrists handcuffed on tainted
metal of cups and breadcrumbs for waifs,
as youngsters huddle in damp...

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Give me a pill that will wipe away this pain
That’s driving me completely insane
A pill that will mend my broken heart
Before I entirely rip apart
A pill that will save me from my death
From my empty soul and decreasing breath
A pill that can keep me happy...

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