Hope Depression Poems

I who have nothing
I have no one
I hate life and want go….
Go where my parents went,
a long way from home,
In peace and serenity, one’s hope;
Because...

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for the peace I hope to gain in the future there's a lot of Pain i need to remove from my past 
I used to...

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Storm Front

My voice is quiet. 
I have little to say. 
I am listening instead…

I can hear birds. 
Not a couple, but many.
They are all around....

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Hope Springs Eternal in our Winter of our Discontent  
Poem for April 2020 Poetry Month Day 1  based writer’s digest prompt posted on...

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When you carried your dreams in your heart
Little did you know that they were to be crushed in the start
Your body shook the whole world...

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Why Fear?  Jesus Is Here!

God hasn’t given us fear, 
but a sound mind.
His faithfulness to us stands
 the test of time.

He didn’t bring us...

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Remember me my love

When darkness has come...
descended hard upon you...
When your mind is weary,
so weary... from the strain

When your heart is heavy,
and you're down on...

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Corona is grabbing the headlines

Threatening like receding hairline

Attacks the lungs and spreads like a pandemic

Hijacks the cells and multiplies like an epidemic

 

He is called...

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I do not want to use the dreaded d-word
Because I don’t think it is that
But all I want to do frankly
Is nap, nap, nap, nap,...

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Smoking and drinking what the hell were u thinking ? 
Theres No food on the table , the lights always blinking 
We ain't got cable...

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YOU KNOW WHERE

Well you’re rusty
From not moving
Your body getting hungry
fuel it up on a Sunday

You’re getting busy
Getting down to nothing
Did you miss me last night
Or...

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Thank you, coronavirus, I can’t sleep
Thank you, coronavirus, I can’t dream
Your smiles are memories I cannot sweep
Your global tours helped boost your self-esteem

Day by day...

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I feel closer to my death day with each breathe I take... 
I'm dying slowly with no one to tell 
Or care, I'm lost in...

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This part

the debut

of my golden era

So many years

of labor from

but a child

continue

The senses fade

Waterworks rush

to precipitous edge

as I study the fall

and its consequence

My eyes are...

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The heart aches with pain of betrayal...

Trusted thoughts, secrets, desires were handed over delicately, hesitantly, carefully…

To the gentle healer…

Full of kindness, tenderness, gentleness...

The secrets of...

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How did my Nanny know of the horrors that went on in our home?  Was it the palpable fear in my eyes, or her...

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but i wouldn’t fault you words spilling from a loose connection 
i forgive the negative 
they are tied to your artistic temperament 

your heart 
translucent...

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I gave into myself today I threw my weight around
But it wasnt cause I'm ugly or that I had gained a pound
.
Its the inner demons...

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Part of me is angry
part of me is dead
part of me is happy 
and part of me is sad
part of me is lying
part of me...

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The scale starts to call and I cannot resist; constantly drawn to my biggest fear. 
The painful number that I see, never leaves my mind.
Every...

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