Short Dark Hope Poems

Short Dark Hope Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dark Hope by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dark Hope by length and keyword.


Dark Hours

Shrivelled day,
Mottled charred desires,
Still pursuits,
Dying hope,
Shadowed duty engagement,
We fall and rise still.
Form: Shadorma


Vampires of Despair

Vampires of despair
Preying on your mind at night
To lick your cold sweat
As their tongues speak of lost love
Draining your body of hope
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Birds Through Obscurity

Shrouded within the underside of clouds,
shade shapes shift like imagination's whims, 
light seeping anew like birds through obscurity.

3/17/2020

Soon

It is still dark.
But there is a
soft glow on
the horizon.
Soon, it will be
bright enough
for all to
read the verses
penned in these
dark times.

Soon!

Premium Member tears in the dead of night

sounds of violin crying out in the dark
desperate for one solitary ray of moonlight
string along all lost souls who stray in the night


AP: Honorable Mention 2025


The Abyss

I gaze up 
Into the Abyss of darkness,
The expanse of blackness.
And see their smiling faces gazing back at me.
Shining, beaming,
Glowing, gleaming.
I'm glad to 
Know
There are stars.
Form:

Premium Member That blessed moment of the day

The craziness of the world
comes to a close in silence
draws breath and shuts down
gathers into a ball of fire
gracefully falls into darkness
to dream of a better tomorrow



AP: 1st place 2026

Do Not Throw Your Life Away

Do not throw your life away 
You have a lot to live for 
Just get off of those streets 
That is for sure 
Nothing but terrains and trivails 
Along with lots of trouble 
Get it all together 
And move on the double

Darkness Will Surround You

In the dark
Is where you will find yourself 
If you do not shape up
And get some help
Avoid hanging around bad company 
For they are the ones who bring you down 
There is a cloudy scenery
You will fall right to the ground

Premium Member Redress

from a winged elm tree
a wren's knife cuts through glum dawn ~
                            joyful day afoot



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Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 11/15/2022
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Darkness Revisited

dark clothing
dark skin
dark place

may    be

but

dark sees
the realities of life
beyond superficialities
deeper meaning
happiness and light
laughter and love

aware
of life

Collection: Life
Written: December 2019

Premium Member Hope

Despair
                      empty, bleak
         shivering, whimpering, trembling
            gloom, doom … light, music
         wondering, brightening, affirming
                    lustrous, radiant
                           Hope
Form: Diamante

Bright Future and Dark Hope

Darkness is the central part of the night 
When rest will be taken by sleeping  
Cursing self in the morning for the work 
Indeed not always you welcome morning 
But why do you aim for bright future 
And why do you consider darkness as it is

Stars

Stars............

Burning balls of gases,
Decorating the night sky,
Displaying the miraculous beauty in nature,
Wasting itself to be with the thousands of souls,
Who are alone in the world,
Giving them hope, in their darkest time.


K.S.Lakshmi

A Needlepoint of Stars

A needlepoint of stars I see,
When falls the darkest night;
In fact, the fewer stars I see
When the nearest is most bright!

For by darkness do I count the stars,
And of late, the sky’s aglow—
How very odd this paradox 
Is most clearly what I know!
Form: Rhyme

You Sit Alone and Stare At the Wall

You sit alone and stare at the wall
And darkness is all that you will find
Messing around with narcotics
Is sadly destroying your mind
Just get yourself some help
And take back your life
Remove yourself from the negative
Move towards the right track

Premium Member Linger a little longer

Would there ever be a light at
the end of the tunnel?

She didn't know, she couldn't see one;
she waited and she hoped
knowing there'd be no guarantee.

Still she persisted waiting in the dark
for even just a spark.



AP: Honorable Mention 2026

Premium Member Darkness Revisited - Revision

some thin
king dark clothing
dark face
dark place

may    be
but more

a see
ing a sensing
of life's realities
superfic'alities

aware
to find

deep mean
ing and singing
the sight
of light


Collection: Experimental
Written 9 January 2020
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Stanby - Haiku Sequence

drab lackluster mood
brought on by somber winter
~ blue melancholy


few treasured sunrays
awaken dormant daydreams
~ hope lurks on standby



AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on December 28, 2019 for contest KU DUET sponsored by SILENT ONE  -  RANKED 1ST
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Cave

velvet black
iridescent blue
scattered with crystals

i stand
surrounded by the void
of love past yet now becoming

in becoming
past fades into future

sun of gold
		verdant
				life

Collection: Romance
Written: February 2018
Revised: October 2019

I,Antagonist

Find me at the bitter end,
Of the darkest stories that’s ever been told

Waiting….Longing,
For your gentil aura to slay me with your light.
And there I shall remain.
Trapped in a blissful mirage, 
More real than the stories I’ve lived and many more told.

Being... Finally.
Finally, being.

Premium Member Crow On Cold Stones

Crow on cold stones

This black being making
A gas station appearance
Intersection traffic
Horns and lights
Sunset shortly
Walking stone to stone..
Ignoring noisy polluted
Starts and stops..
A stoic warrior
In our time of
Heedless searching..

Then he flew and I
Transcended his moment...
Form: Bio

Star Light

she brings

the stars

to the night sky

she brings

the sun

to the day

without this light

we would live

in darkness

in darkness

we would live

in fear dismay

this makes us

appreciate

the light

the light

is love

in darkness

it allows us

to find our way

Premium Member Close My Eyes

on cold grey days
shivering under rain
how I yearn
for the gift
of lazy summer days

when life tastes of honey
and the breeze is mellow
I’ve but to close my eyes
to still feel warm sunrays
tingling on my skin

how I yearn
for the nostalgic gift
of lazy summer days




AP: 3rd place 2020

Premium Member Hanging On

grey drapes the colour of my realm
thick heavy fog pervades over
my thoughts that wander
to where I do not know
i cannot see

in bursts of silence
i gasp for air
a stagnant emptiness
is all i find

it boils it rages
and yet i feel it true
that with tomorrow
blue skies may come again


AP: 2nd place 2024, Front Page Pick 2024

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