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Best Hopeless Poems

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Premium Member A Wordless Sky
If I don't write, I'm doomed to die
and lie beneath a wordless sky
A silent corpse, unseen, unheard
alive yet dead-  is that absurd?

If rhymes don't...

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Categories: hopeless, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: hopeless, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: hopeless, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Laid To Rest
Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hopeless, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: hopeless, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



The Ghost of My Lonely
Abandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere

Dead air presses...

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Categories: hopeless, dream, me, mystery,
Form: Kyrielle
The Love Letter
My dear, 

   I shall meet thee in the summer of thy heart,

   where we once walked head to each 

...

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Categories: hopeless, hope, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hopeless, allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member Good Deeds
Good Deeds are so precious
They are wonderful things
All are filled with compassion
Oh!...the happiness they bring!

They can not be corrupted
You can't buy them with cash
They are...

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Categories: hopeless, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Was a Human
Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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Categories: hopeless, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Worm Poem
A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared 
What they had...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hopeless, baby, death, mother,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Dream
Let there be no hidden or disguised facades
Let there be achievable dreams; not hopeless mirages
Let there be no sorry but sunny days of happy faces
Let...

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Categories: hopeless, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - In the Power of Death and the Depths of Darkness -
In order to obtain true freedom in our lives
Close your eyes and see the light of an angel
Wondering what this life is really all about
That...

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Categories: hopeless, confusion, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Love
My Beloved, 
My fervent Solemn passion
My LOVE bound to you
My Darling, I am entirely thine
As kindling in pure Formidable flame
My Beloved, My precious love
My better...

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Categories: hopeless, devotion, inspirational love, love,
Form: Lyric
Another Piece of God's Art
"Slipping into a coma, the emptiness of a dreamless sleep.
Nightmares filling your head, where nothing is what it seems.
You're underground, desperately tryna' find your way...

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Categories: hopeless, baptism, dream, faith, father,
Form: Rhyme

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