Hope Poems | Examples

Just Because

Just because I don't post 
Doesn't mean I don't write
Just because I don't publish 
I still have dreams at night
Just because it's unspoken 
Doesn't mean that I don't 
Just because you won't say it
Doesn't mean that I won't 
Just because I may want to
Doesn't mean that I would 
Just because I still love you 
Doesn't mean that I should 
The things that we want
Sometimes we don't get
Just because we don't see
The plan fully yet
There's no harm in keeping 
The flame still alive
In case I do make it
To one hundred and five

The sun will shine

Feeling dead
Nowhere to turn 
Dead beat ex
I'm stuck 
No way of freeing myself 

Finances so intertwined 
Like a tumour
Attached to something vital 
"We can't operate I'm afraid.
Too risky"

How did I let this happen?
So insidious 
So slow 
A parasite. Unseen, leaching, infecting, invading, taking, taking, taking.

Eventually, clarity. The alternative.
So often dismissed now better than the present.

But I must pay for my blindness.
I must pay the price for hope.
I cannot be set free 
Like a prison sentence.

And, by the way, 
Don't bother looking up
Don't pray or ask for divine help.

Help,
If there is any, 
Is ground level.
Friends, family, gestures, kind words, hugs, a sympathetic emoji in a motivational text.
You've got this
You are strong
I believe in you.

No choice.  Hold tight, wait for better days. 
Nothing is permanent.
Lean into the love and the sun will shine again some day.

Plant a Seed

Plant a seed, watch it grow
How it happens, I don’t know

A little rain, a little sun
But I don’t know how it is done.

Slowly reaching for the sky
Still, I cannot tell you why.

Flowers, trees, weeds, and grain
Just don’t ask me to explain

There’s really just one need: plant a seed.

Plant a seed, dream a dream
Live your life, be extreme

Make a move, diversify
Just don’t ask me to tell you why

Reality from pretend,
You never know just where or when

Lawyers, artists, doctors, too
There’s really nothing you can’t do

There’s really just one need: plant a seed.

A Light Along the Way

"Sometimes the smallest act of kindness becomes the brightest light along our darkest road."


He is one in a million--
a hand that reached out
when the world was silent,
and when kindness was rare.

Reg(Rej), though we have never met,
I feel your goodness
in the way it touched my path.
When I had nowhere to go,
you were there...
proof that the Lord sends hearts
to lift the fallen when hope runs thin!

For twenty-one nights, I walked alone
smiling at strangers…
never letting them see the weight I carried.

My knees ached,
my feet swollen,
my body trembling on the edge of collapse.
And still I told myself:
no one could run this race for me.

So I pressed forward
clutching courage in the dark,
holding on to the feeble flame of hope
that someone, somewhere
would understand without judgment.

Then came you...
A quiet proof that mercy endures,
that kindness still weaves its way through the dark
and even when the night is heaviest,
daylight will arrive.

When I finally reach my destination..
I will turn my face to the sun
and keep this treasure close:
that somewhere along the way home,
I found you...
and kept you in my heart.

Enough For You

Let me be enough for you...
Search for me
Pull me out
Of myself and self doubt
Snake charmer play your magic flute
Snake charmer play your magic flute
Make me believe you love me too
Reach way down deep
Past brick walls
Beyond pretend, to all my flaws
See the Me that I really am
Love me truly if you truly can
Love me truly if you truly can

[chorus]
Let me be enough to deserve the love you give
Let me wake with you each day, and each day let me live
Knowing you know me, yes, you do…
Your enough for me, let me be enough for you.

[verse]
Lift my veil
Reveal my face
Lead me to amazing grace
Overlook the wrong I don't mean to do
And I promise to love you like this too.
Strip me down
to the skin
As innocent as I was then
A new creature without any rust
And show me once again how to trust
Clean me up
with great care
Until I stand before you bare
Let the shame I feel finally go away
Let our lives begin anew today
Let our lives begin anew today

[chorus]
Let me be enough to deserve the love you give
Let me wake with you each day, and each day let me live
Knowing you know me, yes, you do…
Your enough for me, let me be enough for you.

Renaissance

Rain falls wet upon my body,
I lay half-dormant in the gutter of my mind.
Unable to move, it worsens
Striking cold and hard.

Then brightness sifts through parting clouds,
And the sky begins to glow.
I rise, stretch and go my way
As your warmth dries my weary soul.

My Dream Within A Dream

“Day dreams lay dead in dreams, but when life is breathed into them, they soar beyond the boundaries of success.”
— Poet
  My dream is to be great in life,
 That all I touch shall turn to gold,
 And melt like butter on hot knife.
 Thus my reward shall be tenfold,
   Full of thriving, less of strife,
Grow finer, like a wine brewed old~
  That buds find its rhythm in fife,
      A belief I hold in heart bold.

         So surprising it becomes,
When I dreamt this dream in dreams,
   And dance to its beats on drums,
 Then its true essence truly gleams,
     And its true purpose it sums.
    Its starkness guided by beams,
As if life's dreams are like ripe plums,
   That come as easy as they seem,
    Such that to no loss it succumbs.

   True dreams are fulfilled in sleeps,
   And not drowned in dwams' dams,
      Where doubt constantly creeps,
   To make dreams appear as shams,
         Yet my life-dream still peeps
      Through this life's tangled jams,
           To a place no one weeps,
       And free from dreams' logjams.

A Lightening Storm that Sings

A sharp bang it sang,

Which struck down with a loud pang!

Jagged across the sky like a laser beam,

What a streak to see underneath;
the black skies of old!

It lighted the heavens,

And extinguished the flames.

Forever in Jahanam!

Forever in Jahannah!

That is what we are told in legends foretold.

Signs of light seep in the dark abyss!

Showering down hail!

Keeping a tight grip of the rope of the Merciful Lord! 

We shall not fail beneath’s God’s hidden veil!

Youthful to begin with

Young at heart…
Torn apart by the death cart…
Depart from me,
Ludicrous liberty

End me to begin you…
Mend me to forgive you…
Your sins are covered with mercy
From within, I heard from Your joyous glee

Compassionate is Your spirit to me, oh Lord of Accord

I’m aboard your ship of serenity
Free me for an eternity and beyond
I’m fond of our Bond of grace graciously

In times of darkness

the sun hides behind clouds
the prism of reality out of reach
~ I try to stay positive



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Silver Soul

If you need sweeting up
I have been dipped in honey
will give you every drop of it
in my sweet songs

Will you sing along?
come along and have fun with me
on this flat land we run free
no hill will stand in your way

And i’m rolling in this - space of time
thinking your son is - way to kind
to be a son of - any kind

In awe of you and all you are within 
I had no peace from the beginning 
so, nor i care to end without
stories taste better over time
especially with a silver soul like mine

I miss the way we shared 
wish I had better prepared
for the parting of our ways
I miss your face

You asked for my permission
don't think there is a further vision from greed - than you
I agree with you

With A Gentle Hand - Mystic

With a gentle hand,
You balance the world while its feet are still untried…
little fingers twist like seashells
around the promise of tomorrow.

Love is gentle in this place;
it hides within a cradle song,
a steady thrum of trust
leaning into your heart.

Every touch becomes a promise
each embrace a refuge -
showing the fragile ones
that gentleness carries power.

When the lullabies grow silent
your hand remains
carrying tomorrow gently
like sunrise opening the sky.

hope hushed

bound by doubt, I stood there amidst the bluebells
watching where she'd been but a moment sooner
dusk to come, her breath hanging like the
       shadows
she, thus departing

on my tongue, sweet words melted soft and
       tender
all those daring, romantic thoughts I'd gathered
passion dreams that longed for a voice, but
       silenced
with my reluctance

"please don't leave!", I begged of her proud
       affections
"you're the blushing flame that so warms my
       marrow!"
still, those sounds had not found my lips for
       voicing ...
heavy, that stillness

rife, those times that I'd worked hard to impress
       her
waiting, long, the chance of this evening saunter
there I stood, waist-deep in the meadow, darkened
mourning my chances

as her shape was swallowed by shrouded
       gloaming
rose the moon, perfecting its grand enchantments
I, then, choked on words meant for love's
       endeavor
now, sad ... unspoken.




Copyright © 2019 Gregory Richard Barden

Fight for what's right

I'm refusing to lose hope
there's rising evil in this idyllic world
~ let me catch my breath



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

how did it get this far?

i'm at my wit's end
barely clinging to the last remaining illusion
~ hope being the rising sun



Wordku: 15-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025

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