Best Hopefulness Poems
" When one least expects...hope illuminates"
Light Shines In Total Darkness
A moment in time where love should leave
when incompatibility muddy crystal waters
dissolves a tie that binds divine connection
widens the abyss as dream loudly shatters
Down on my knees I begged for a reprieve
gazes polarizing for to her nothing matters
in locked cages lay vestiges of desperation
intimacy now in tatters mutated to cinders
Aged moon will not commiserate then give
nebulous promises to stop onrushing tears
nor rays to light the path toward contrition
and turtle doves waving wings that glitters
Weary eyes reaching for salvation perceive
apparitions raising me up to alleviate fears
cleansing this heart throbbing in exultation
as grass springs anew...while grief withers.
Penned: 01/16/2023
2:12 a.m.
West Palm Beach
Florida
Seeking Redemption Beyond The Horizon
While my mind ventures to unravel the origins of human enmities
Craves to stumble upon a most sagacious and diplomatic solution,
We journey on even when decency is absent without good reason.
Vestiges of a dream imbedded in pages shred to miniscule pieces.
Where did the promises that we had sworn to and to abide by go?
Were eyes blinded by a debris of perverted lies creating paranoia?
Transgressions orchestrated for their politically motivated agenda,
Enact crimes against humanity inflating an already distended ego.
There is no end in sight only the sanctimonious blather of the vile
Or those egregious behavior of autocrats and anarchists seditious.
We must beg the Spirit of Justice to lead and champion our cause,
Liberating hearts from dank dungeons where love remain in exile.
Time is of the essence to end disparities for polarity still envelops,
Like the devil's claw suppressing every gasp of humanity's breath.
The indistinct laughter, a dire warning, heralds an ominous threat,
No escape route or fence to climb, just a row of hangman's ropes.
Optimism's visions blindfolded, subjugated by menacing shadows,
Yet slivers of ethereal light penetrates impregnable walls of doom.
Opportunity transcends hardship driving back the insidious gloom,
It is within our grasp to ignite joy and douse the flame of sorrows!
Penned: 02/10/2023
2:41 p.m.
Las Vegas
Nevada
Quest For Eternal Love
no oasis in sight just blazing sand dunes
a promised land foretold seems forsaken
resolve eroding within need to be enliven
my mind yearns to ease emotive wounds
eyes intensely drifted beyond deep space
where in silence this angelic face appears
our hearts touch shedding unbridled tears
in search of an everlasting warm embrace
Penned: 2/28/2022
8:08 p.m.
Lake Worth
Florida USA
To have hope in your heart is to believe,
To have faith within yourself and disbelieve,
You wont more from your life than is given,
To strive for success to be driven,
Don't be hopeless to give up on the fight,
To extinguish that blazing bright light,
It's so easy to just hide away and give up,
To be stagnant in life or cover it up,
It's not always the easiest route or way,
Having hope in your heart makes headway,
Dreaming of hope is simply not enough,
You have to put in the work and be tough,
Pushing forward will help you achieve,
There will be barriers, but you must believe,
Have faith in your own capabilities,
And ignore the negativities, impossibilities,
Believe in the availabilities and probabilities,
Never give up on hope, to fulfil your dreams,
No matter what it takes do it by any means.
Keep hope within your heart so dreams become real,
And life may just seem a bit more ideal.
The Need To Amend Immoral Choices
under the soles of everyone's feet
silently surviving
thriving living forms amidst darkness
viewed as irrelevant
by glorified human cerebellum's ambitions
so apparently abhorring
frigid to the gentler and wisest enlightened
essences below ground cognizant
why bother with others' needs not part of
man's lust unrelenting?
conquerors eroding all pristine abodes
of the Earth's abused beings
eager to wear crowns over rotting skulls
perverted in many ways unending
hoarder of stolen blood-stained jewels
the final nails to their aging bloated coffins
goal to metamorphose as kind creatures
a daunting task achievable
the malleability of human perception seem
obvious given the right path taken
we are invisible in the realm of the cosmos
accepting wrongs restore and console
in desperate times, love bestows a solution
a ray of hope guiding souls to a safer haven
Penned: 04/25/2022
Lake Worth
Florida USA
Hearts hear happiness breathing
Heavenly hope free of grieving
Hesitating a healing hearth leading
Home that happens to be heaving
Harm that has heard the pleading
Haunting hastening toward the meaning
Horse and buggy that hauls a load
Handles the hollow form of the code
Heartened heart who has always rode
Hoarded heavily inside their abode
Hoping to heal the heartiest ode
Having hopefulness which has flowed
Hallucinating a haven that might explode
Horseplay which leaves all of creation
Hope of a second chance to avoid temptation
Heaven happens to heal every relation
Hastening us all to last through the duration
Hues of angelic halos remind us of salvation
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Shaded Sparkle
To forgive and forget a lingering horrid past
A monumental act someone should consider
And when the unrelenting sun shines at last
Faded moments might unveil a hidden luster
Penned: 2/9/2022
Lake Worth
Florida USA
Earthly Reality
The day silently journey toward anonymity with eyes wide awake
while a plethora of resolute flora thrives in a remote wilderness
Sacred sanctuary surreptitiously shelters slithering startled snake
as teardrops shaped raindrops inundate crops with earnestness
Moonlight ascend unfettered diffusing a dazzling gloss at its wake
illuminates silhouettes of grieving spirits drowning in emptiness
Noble acts of love could nurture even the tiniest forlorn snowflake
capable in igniting that dimming sparkle of human virtuousness
08/19/2023
Aboard Vision of the Seas,
cruising towards Bermuda
By branches of the Tanabata,
to the waters of the Trevi,
on the wall of the Virgin,
or in stars of the sky,
I will wish for thee,
in purest form,
that I find,
you here,
Love.
Chrysalis
Chants emancipate mind unlocking subconscious fantasies
Stimulated perceptions propel imagination beyond galaxies
Amid silenced darkness perpetuities of endless possibilities
Penned: 08/07/2011
Aboard cruise liner "Splendour of the Seas"
Cabin 2830
AWAITING SNOWFLAKES
ALONE TAMPING BEATEN TRAIL IRREPRESSIBLY HEARTBROKEN
MENACING SKY TORMENT A PERIPATETIC DISENCHANTED SOUL
TEARY EYED SHE PONDERS FORSAKEN WISH LONG FORGOTTEN
COURAGE TRANSCEND DEFEAT AWATING SNOWFLAKES TO FALL
12/19/2013
2:54 p.m.
W.P.B Florida
Spiritual Optimism
Silenced voices for millennia traverse upon repressed pivotal moments
Deplorable vow of secrecy resonates amid impregnable embattlements
Ancient nomads above burning desert sense overwhelming compassion
Thirst quenched with essential nutrients rejuvenates tenets of past eon
Primal fear of cosmic unknowns planet in isolation impose concealment
Incessantly radiating interstellar illumination awaken fireflies iridescent
Enigmatic passageway to astounding revelation shrouded in symbolism
Sweep ambiguities away strengthening indefatigable spiritual optimism
Insatiable Human Obsession
It is time for that insatiable human obsession for destruction to expire
And vanish amidst the darkened realm of an imploding distant star
05/22/2021
7:20 p.m.
Lake Worth
Florida USA
Edited: 05/25/2021
"The unwavering human desire for perpetuity"
--by poet--
Hunger For Life
Desperation reason with destiny to depose inevitability and find utopian coast
Longevity is not an impervious spiritual armor weakened by an invasive ghost
Inculcated within thoughts are prognostications of inexorable advancing years
Endeavors defying the rules of gravity regrettably culminate in shedding tears
Polar winds menace leaves steadfastly clinging on as tainted skies appear dim
Beyond freezing horizons anonymous newly departed faces wander in tandem
Grey whales returned and blizzards withdrew except old towns are in disarray
Hunger for life contesting dreadfulness anticipate the dissolution of a blue day
11/02/2014
1:46 a.m.
Aboard cruise liner:
Splendour Of The Seas
What vile infusion calls me to the brink
Of ruthless fear and callous doubt sown deep
Within my heart, where tides of malice bring
To mind deep wells whence cheerlessness I seep?
I lie, forgotten by the vim of peace,
Beneath the elderberry tree, whose wine
And flowers make me dream of restless waves
Which crash upon the shores of fright. I pine
For nights when toil, distress and tears might cease
And I am spared the view of solitary graves.
Thick, lulling clouds obscure the sight of day
And sprinkle tears of time upon the ground,
Whose sturdy coat compels the grass to pay
A debt of dew in silence free of bound.
As elms and birches grow, so does concern
On shoulders bent by old, abandoned dreams,
Or heavy over eye lids—closed by fright—
Which never ‘gain shall see the merry leams
Bestowed by joy on man. Indeed, more stern
Than thirst or death can be a spirit’s blight!
Unknown to day, besought in vain by night,
The ecstasy of flight in heaven’s music shines,
Though light and voices tremble to the sight
Of sorrow’s dawn, when star-ward hope declines.
How fresh and candid is the charming dance
Of graceful cranes, whose wings spread out to seek
The land of palm trees, where Euterpe’s spell
Bewitched the clever lyre bird’s will, whose beak
Sings royal chants and thrills, as in a trance,
The deafest ear, its woe and thirst to quell!
Farewell to gloom and sadness, then! I see
How love of youth and bliss, unchecked by time,
Inspire the soul—as in a gleeful spree—
To burn, and then from ashes soar and shine.
From this night forth, resented as it should,
Let dull regret and fear suspire and die
A hasty death, unheeded and alone,
For peace and hopefulness! May not a sigh
Be heard when cruel dejection dares to brood,
Nor good hearts bleed on graveyard slabs of stone!
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