I’m here, so have no fear
Hope will help happiness appear
I will hold you oh so dear
I won’t shed another sorrowful tear
Can you heal me from this pain within?
My faith is paper thin and I can’t win
This battle within me…you see?
We need to be free from misery
Forgiveness is the key to eternal bliss
The misery mess is a ghostly hopelessness
Trying and dying and crying
Lying and flying and goodbying
Fear not
Doubt not
I forgot
You were distraught
I am emotionally rot
I sought for freedom
I fought for the Kingdom
I’m not naught anymore
I adored you to the core, but what for?
Can you heal me from this pain within?
My faith is paper thin and I can’t win
This battle within me…you see?
We need to be free from misery
Forgiveness is the key to eternal bliss
The misery mess is a ghostly hopelessness
Trying and dying and crying
Lying and flying and goodbying
Fear not
Doubt not
I forgot
You were distraught
I am emotionally rot
Change is a challenging chore
I soar with wings so sore…
A wing or two full of cheerfulness all the more
A melody I won’t ignore
It’s a special hope in store
Categories:
doubt, angst, betrayal, courage,
Form: Lyric
Weighing up peace, love, and rage
wait a half-minute
you lose all the momentum
losing lines on stage
To you, I'm a fleeting breath
half a minute's worth
when you are my endless sky
casting a shadow
Categories:
doubt, angst, anxiety,
Form: Other
SKEPTICAL THOUGHTS UNDERMINE VERBAL WARMTH
as offered aloud from masculine parted lips.
When brain doubts unexpectedly burst forth,
ensure same feminine brain shreds them to strips.
MOONLIT NIGHTS OBSERVE POTENTIALLY QUED
magic often downward fracture and fall apart
when a man’s truth isn’t evidentially clued
to a willing and attentive sweetheart.
AMPLE BAFFLED COUPLES DECLINE EMBRACE
if one is not genuinely enthused.
When qualms clearly show on one’s face,
the other’s face soon appears confused.
ENTICING, FOXY GALS HARKEN INTEREST
and good-looking men embolden heartbeats
so that when neither is indifferent
romance may take a stroll down High Street.
Categories:
doubt, desire, feelings, heart, kiss,
Form: Rhyme
You’ve spent years gathering pieces.
Lessons woven into your hands,
stitched into your voice,
threaded through the way you move.
Still, you hesitate.
As if wisdom needs a witness.
As if truth needs permission.
As if you are waiting for someone
to say, yes, you are allowed.
But no one is coming to grant you authority.
No degree, no title, no nod of approval
will make you more of what you already are.
You know.
You have always known.
And when you finally claim it—
they will know too.
Categories:
doubt, career, courage, future, hope,
Form: Free verse
DOUBT NOT
Like Jesus, doubt not;
You too, are a child of God:
Believe in yourself:-
Categories:
doubt, high school, middle school,
Form: Senryu
Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold
The limits of my Sarah's love for me,
But I realize that the rot and stink and mold
Are all within my mind, beneath my See.
There is no other person who can love
For me. It is my duty and my joy.
It is the Truth that True Love is made of
It is the difference of man from a boy.
I am no counter of the counterfeits
That weigh love by the dram of sweet words said,
But rather, I am one who from above
Receives the gifts whereby he bakes his bread.
Into the practical and humble things
I'll pour my Constancy and give love wings.
Categories:
doubt, mental health, silly, true
Form: Sonnet
I was told the sky was endless,
But mine was a feather away
A low lid of shadows.
Every step echoes in a room
That was never meant to hold me.
Still, they say, reach higher.
But my hands find only fog,
And my faith slips through it
Like water through open fingers.
In despair, or deep sleep
I open my eyes
But I’m blind
Feeling my way through a world
That swears there’s light above me.
Categories:
doubt, anger, class, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Not between heaven and earth,
but between “yes” and “why.”
Not in the mouths of philosophers,
but in the wounds of those who had no time to read.
Doubt is a woman with bound hands
who waits for me night after night
to say I no longer love her.
But I come,
and keep silent,
and lie down beside her
like beside a mother who forgot to give birth to me.
Categories:
doubt, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
In the wilderness of bewilderment,
Sculpting different sorts of thoughts,
Where intent fades, needing no interment,
And truth exudes from all its rots.
There lies the stark resolve for my future,
A slender hope of life ahead,
Bound together by a catgut suture,
That time corrodes until it's shed.
All kept away from prying eyes,
Ever before my intent was conceived,
Just to keep all sane minds apprised,
And safeguard each new blessings just received.
Intent is wordless, lost in speech,
Etched as imagery – symbol of hope,
Quavering conscience stays unbreached,
Through the darkness of intense doubt it gropes.
Categories:
doubt, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
A silver bird departs, the sky serene,
Yet morning’s promise shatters in a breath;
Ash falls where laughter and bright hopes had been,
A city mourns the sudden hand of death.
In distant hills, a traveler’s path grows cold,
A journey meant for dreams, now left undone;
The news arrives—too heavy to be told—
A vanished step, a race that’s never run.
Where rivers wind through valleys deep with pine,
And pilgrims seek the solace of the land,
A shadow falls, intentions intertwine
With violence wrought by an unseen hand.
Yet through these veils, uncertain as the night,
We hold each fragile day, and seek the light.
Categories:
doubt, death, funeral, life, vanity,
Form: Sonnet
Don't you ever lose hope
Keep your feet on solid ground
Never doubt the Lord's great love
Seek Him while He may be found
The angels sing His praises
They exalt His mighty Name
They would move heaven and earth for Him
Leading souls who once knew shame
Alleluia blessed is the King
Throughout times of great trials
Peace to His people He will bring
Categories:
doubt, christian, encouraging, endurance, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Why be concerned with transparency
People are blind, they really can’t see
With distortion and illusion in the word today
And bias and lies in what people say
Just be who you are, one of a kind
The truth will totally blow their mind
They’ll be so confused trying to figure you out
Their miscalculations will still leave them doubt
They’ll still try to mold you and make you conform
For uniqueness to them is the start of a storm
The fullness of creation will never be complete
If we all march together to one single beat
No one can truly know all of another
The closest possibility would be one’s mother
Categories:
doubt, confusion, creation, life, mother,
Form: Sonnet
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S-mooth,
E-arnestly
D-o
A-ll
L-ife's
E-ndeavors,
A-iming
N-ot
T-o
I-mplement
P-essimism
O-r
R-enunciation's
T-otal
A-bandon
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Rose Dale R. Antiporta)
Categories:
doubt, birthday,
Form: Other
Everything I do in life
No matter how hard I try
It never does go right
I wish that I knew why
My failures are not something
Can I try to do purposely
Could it just be that life
Has simply turned against me
Rubber house I've been chosen
My destined to always fail
Whatever it is has shaped
This life of mine out of hell
People watch me with doubt
In this life I go through
Want to be honest at this point
I have to doubt myself too
Categories:
doubt, angst, betrayal, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
They all say "It'll be alright.”
"You’ll get a job, save yourself—save your family."
"Trust the process,"—
that’s the song we’re all singing.
But deep down,
no one knows the struggle.
No one sees the nights we lie awake thinking,
or the doubts we've carved inside ourselves.
Do they even know
how hard it is
just to hold it together?
Sometimes,
we think of going out—
drinking the sorrows down,
just to silence the storm.
But we know,
when morning comes,
it’ll all return:
The self-doubt.
The broken faith.
The fragile hope held in a stranger’s kind word.
And somehow—
the grace that keeps us
through one more day.
Categories:
doubt, allusion, analogy, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
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