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Discouragement Poems

Driverless Car

from the    passenger seat
she watches    life 
sliding past     out her window.
   so many u-turns
   so many deadends
   going the ‘long way’ 
   driving the ‘wrong way’
and never    quite    ever
reaching

Categories: discouragement, life, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse

Shall Pass

Tired.
So tired be she.
She wanted to flee the world.
But air got wind of it
   and tornadoed the news
   to friend and foe
Complicating all,
   madly blowing shut windows,
   loudly slamming doors.
Now was not the day
   not the day
not today...
   this storm will pass

Categories: discouragement, courage, faith,
Form: Free verse

Deception In Soup Creek

Deception In Soup Creek

There once was a town called Soup Creek amiable and quaint
Filled with all these characters, a perfect picture they'd paint
It was founded to protect the innocent
Where one was welcome to come visit
A bold western saga exquisite
A Mayor, a Sheriff, a saloon proprietor 
A bar owner, also a realtor
What comes next you can’t

Categories: discouragement, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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A Length of Time

combing my unkempt hair
unraveling years of not caring
my freedom knotted with reckless abandon
untangling each strand of dissatisfaction
cutting as curls fall away
each length a strand of injured time



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Categories: discouragement, change,
Form: Free verse

To Women: Encouragement For Discouragement

Crawling from the ground
                                       Beautiful butterfly springs

Categories: discouragement, butterfly, encouraging, women,
Form: Haiku

Force For Good

some are discouraged
display the love that builds up
~be a force for good

Categories: discouragement, blessing, courage, motivation,
Form: Senryu

The Waiting Room

The tickling watches, the shaking legs,
Minds full with silent cries and begs
Hearts are homes
Where the oil is ceaseless impatience,
And neighbours – the anxious ancestors.

The dreams, the love, the perfection,
All blur.
The waiting, waiting and waiting,
In this bewildering times they all were!

It’s a road not unique,
It’s a road they all walk,
The roads with the same lock.
In the

Categories: discouragement, anxiety, career, confusion, stress,
Form: Free verse

What Has Happened To Dispel Hope

My cat was killed. Murdered. Gunned down by a car.
In the street in front of his house. Horribly maimed.
I was bereft. It had been a terrific week until it wasn’t.
Then the tide turned and I started smiling again.
Not forgetting but shoving back my poor cat.

A child is missing. Two blocks from my home.
He is twelve.

Categories: discouragement, depression, hope,
Form: Narrative

Overcoming Discouragement

Inevitable; that's me, simply called discouragement...
Oppressive is my nature; you should be warned
I attack everyone; yet I'm exempting you:
Yes, you who are now despondent, broken-hearted
Frustrated, and about to quit!

Are you aware of my presence?
Can you hear my mocking, taunting reproach???
I'm challenging you, dear believer of God...
You who have been testifying of your steadfast faith
To face

Categories: discouragement, bible, cheer up, christian,
Form: Free verse

Dealing With Discouragement

DEALING WITH DISCOURAGEMENT

Do you feel downhearted at this time now in your life?
Is your heart all burdened from the trials and the strife?
Set your focus upward to the Savior on His throne,
Consider those three hours He hung on the cross alone.
Offer up a prayer now to the Savior who is there,
Understand He knows of your

Categories: discouragement, depression,
Form: Acrostic

Clouds of Discouragement

CLOUDS OF DISAGREEMENT

Clouds of disagreement because we all don’t see
The messages of Scripture quite like they’re meant to be.
Clouds of disagreement--they cover up the Son
And bring a strong division that long ago begun.
Yet though these clouds created, He somehow seems to glow
Within our hearts united because His grace we know.
There are well-meaning preachers who tell

Categories: discouragement, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Discouragement

The banks along the sides
at times how wide the current rides!
The massive waves, how nigh
they rise to overflowing,
like the master of his ship, gliding
o'er rough the seas of confusion -
Then as quick the waves' unfolding
from certain depths not fathomed,
and the banks' eternal holding
tend to narrow now -
The splashing waves, once enraged,
seem less than a trickle

Categories: discouragement, allegory,
Form: Free verse

During My Discouragement I Found Encouragement

I Was Discouraged…  But Jesus Found Me!


I was so discouraged the
 way things were going.
I was frustrated and upset. 
 And it was showing!

I was about ready to give up
 on everything I tried…
And remember the nights I laid awake and cried.

I thought of God.  Whom I once had professed…
But now was doubtful,

Categories: discouragement, faithwords, voice, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme