Best Hopeful Poems

Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark path
His old friend ‘Panic’ enters causes a disturbing wrath

‘Humming the blues - got to choose - life or pain -...

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HOPEFUL TRIO

the first hint of spring
cannot be put into words
no special color
it is the song of the wind
softly breezing warmth and hope

hint
of spring
gentle breeze
come from somewhere
stings but warms your cheek
the northern god is tired
labored very hard this year
there is no pity in his voice
sister sun...

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Every day mind facing challenge to reach unattainable moon, queen of starlit sky, gleaming to inspire....

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Looking out my window this 38 degree morning
I saw that:

The bushes are weighted down
with the moisture;
the droplets on the verge of
morphing into ice;
hunkering against the cold.

The weeds are dead and stiff
with the end of a dry season;
now wet, turned into intensely
deep shades of brown
and ochre.

The...

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Why am I a love-sick, dead-broke loser
in love with a rich and affluent girl?
A poor, unwise fool, why did I choose her?
(I can't afford such a lovely, rich Pearl!)
I wish I were a prince, handsome and rich,
youthful and full of promise and prospects
(for her): but...

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When a dream never comes true.
You start to wonder, is it you.
Have I done something that I should not.
If I did, well I forgot.

The best dream that I ever had.
Ended up just being a fad.
The style went out and lost appeal.
And now I'm not sure...

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I lay in this bed, puttering close to death
Wonder when I shall draw my last breath
A long and great life it certainly has been
I have no hair, move in wheelchair, yet I grin

Grinning at memories and days full of glee
Soaring past on my mount- whizzing...

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Alone.  Hopeful!  She did not jump.

Six word story for Raul Moreno's contest....

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Once upon a time, in the land of candy and sweets, lived a little girls with rosy cheeks and tiny feet.
She loved to play and laugh all day,
and dance around in the most whimsical way.

One day as she wandered through the forest so green,
She stumbled...

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Slipping away is the time; seconds pass slowly like a racing tortoise
The clock never seemed to be less alive, dead
Is it true about, just a mechanism of illusion
To see a man frantically panicking
While watching his watch counting the miniscule minutes
Does time despise him, hate the...

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Hopeful

Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark path
His old friend ‘Panic’ enters causes a disturbing wrath

‘Humming the blues - got to choose - life or pain -...

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Let my soul be laid bare
in the open air,
and let lovely flowers grow there....

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Bleeding music into
A heart who cries
Tears so gentle, so tender
They reflect the hope
So often called to mind
By one who knows
Lost love – left behind

Breathing light across
The soul who smiles
Peace and wonder, inspiration
Filled with grace, peace
Aliveness, a dance
Waltz of healing, stirring
Awake the flames
Of compassion, a brilliant
Whisper...

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If I could be anything, I would be an enzyme.
Grown in dandelions as they are plentiful, and free,
And unappreciated now by some.
Maybe also I could be in clover.
A healing enzyme.

My catalytic action would be simply this.
I would retrain cancer cells to swallow,
Digest and eliminate themselves.
On...

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I feel the futility 
after decades
of my fingers flitting
like dragonflies
over the keys 
my once hopeful heart 
shriveled and shrunken 
as a plum into a prune 
Shakespeare and Miller
Marlowe and Pinter
will never again 
pick up the plume
to pen another  
poem or play
yet they live on...

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