Short Discouraging Poems

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


Premium Member Anonymous

Dear boy who finished the three hour Chemistry test in 9 minutes,

I hope you FAILED.
 Sincerely, Girl still on question 2.


Premium Member fresh

fresh modern, fashionable pleasing, entertaining, inspiring clothes, music, rags, silence boring, annoying, discouraging lackluster, drab stale
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Big Beautiful Moon

Bright and Beautiful,
beacon of light
reaches out and touches
my soul as I make my way
home from a discouraging encounter
It is a good reminder of a vast universe

Premium Member interesting

interesting attractive, splashy gripping, fascinating, exciting concert, comedian, tax prep, silence tiring, drudging, discouraging tedious, humdrum boring
Form: Diamante

Shadows

WHEN MET WITH COLD CLIMATE; DESTROYERS OF DREAMS, AND SMOTHERERS OF HOPES, REMEMBER ALWAYS, DISCOURAGING LIGHTS, ALWAYS REFLECT TRUE SPIRITS, TEN TIMES BIGGER!!!, WITH INVINCIBLE MIGHT!!!!!


Premium Member UNSEEN

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hope delicate, bright whispering, fluttering, ascending feather, prayer, burden, condemnation discouraging, stagnating, descending heavy, gray despair
Form: Diamante

The Deaf

Discouraging words were uttered to him 
They tried to halt him from reaching his dream 
But he did his very best 
He tried hard to reach his quest 
He was too deaf to hear their daunting scream 

May 30, 2023
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Perfect and Futile

Not even nothing..
A showing that words
Even the word nothing
Cannot express This
Which cannot be
Expressed..
A Preface to every
Use of words..
Discouraging and
Encouraging..OK
This is nothing..
Perfect and futile...

Premium Member BUILDING EACH OTHER UP

May we be blessed to create a world…
where we were building bridges
instead of blowing them up…

Where Instead of discouraging one another
and tearing each other down…

We were encouraging one another
and building each other up
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member What can I do?

Discouraging

It may seem 

That choices are

Not original

Not by the individual

But seemingly from

A bundled backstory

Maybe like AI

A focusing of 

Everything which

Cannot be focused..

What can I do?

Relish the freedom?

Premium Member Relish the freedom?

Discouraging

It may seem 

That choices are

Not original

Not by the individual

But seemingly from

A bundled backstory

Maybe like AI

A focusing of 

Everything which

Cannot be focused..

What can I do?

Relish the freedom?

A Distinctly Unparliamentary Word

It is not a discouraging word
but, according to one, is a turd.
F-A-R-T
is not pretty
and in Parliament should seldom be heard

*bit of a row over use of the word “fart” during a session of the Canadian Parliament — search “canadian fart” to read the article on BBC news
Form: Limerick

Keep Walking

Let Them Talk... 

If they keep talking
keep walking
if they keep gossiping
keep ignoring
if they keep cursing
keep on blessing
if they keep on insulting
keep on praying
if they keep discouraging
keep hard-working
keep succeeding
keep winning.

Drencho POET Loads
Form: Rhyme

Loves Sick Poems

so many poems 
words of useless rime
so many love songs
that live no life of mine
so many great speeches 
that i want to succeed
so many discouraging words
that wont hurt me
so many encouraging words 
that lift my spirit
but as a poem 
let me say 
this is my way

By:Kylie Arello
Form:

A Muffin Is a Girl's Best Friend

A muffin 
Mends every broken heart
And will
Never not miss you 
Dearly when you've gone
Away.

A muffin like
Mine 
Always has your heart
Near to hers and 
Doesn't ever leave it 
All alone.

A 
Muffin is
A 
Never 
Discouraging and best friend 
A girl could ever have.


Dedicated to my best friend and Muffin
  Amanda Straub
Form: Name

Premium Member Purple Clouds

When dusky, purple clouds cross the restless sky, the angry moon frowns with whispered sigh. Darkened storms threaten to weep, discouraging sleep where dreamers lie. Star streamers stare and proudly peep, promising soft light will sweep welcome diversion to weary eye when dusky, purple clouds cross the restless sky.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Definitely Not

Discouraging others 
Expecting instant respect 
Fingering a bad guy 
Imagining worst scenario 
Negating someone’s accomplishments 
Irritating people in a mean way 
Tasting caviar 
Eating slimy oysters 
Laughing at a person’s misfortune 
Yelling about people I have never met 

Needling a nefarious never-do-well-er
Ostracizing an ostrich 
Tackling a Tiger
Form: Acrostic

Wasted Effort

I’m sure that what you seek
Is at some cloud-veiled peak
That could pick up more than a week
For a nearing by The Weak;
To be soon skinny that is sleek 
And mentally thwarted – A freak 
This proving by easily sounding Greek …

And-Gosh!-already, I picked out a beak
About to on it havoc wreak
Or leave an unseemly streak …

It is sure, a discouraging prophecy
But Wasted Effort is no legacy.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The New Year- What's Next

It is here- Twenty-Twenty-Four a new book- three hundred and sixty-five blank pages to fill up. All too fast they'll unfold to shape our world. Will this new volume answer questions- fulfill promises for a new year more rewarding than the last? God, send us good judgment to choose leaders who will shape a story more uplifting than last year's discouraging- written tale.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Cleaning Is Not My Thing

Malt-o-Meal sitting on my desk
Left over from last year
Found in a box I never unpacked
in August and this is April 25th

Cleaning is not my thing;
Even when I do it no one appreciates it
And no one knows
For there are no obvious clues.

So here I sit, 
Enjoying my hovel 
Finding whatever I need
Knowing it will be here again tomorrow

Discouraging others
From disturbing me
or my mess that 
Completes me.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Attitude

Attitude Tom Wright 11-10-2016 Discouraging words are uttered every day, And the most hurtful I hear is “I don’t care.” Dudes get uptight when not getting their way, That is more lamebrain than a barrel of hair. Not caring about things is a bad place to live, And from our vocabularies we should abolish. Thinking only of one’s self with nothing to give, Exposes us as being thoughtless and smallish;
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member The Deputy

Two years ago 
Man started defending 
A war with virus
Now still going on
Man's throne is unstable 
New deputy is rising up one by one 
Soon out of control
Unknown and discouraging 
Many have given up and gone
Pity the man 
Pity the digital world
Pity the innocents who have departed
Without knowing what really happened
Even those still alive are wondering 
Who will be the king 
In the next dynasty
The man or the virus

Premium Member Mamma Poetry Contest

How beautiful you were
Your love flourished and did transfer
To us upon with ambitious dreams
And love for each did stir.

You flitted about, to each one nourishing 
Not in discouraging but, encouraging.

To say, “It’s going to be all right.”
And the future is in your sight.”

With God's grace and never His absence. 
You climbed the stairs into the arms with guidance.
And in His favor manifest love spellbind 
Comfort to those you had left behind.
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Lily

There's a woman named Lily 

who just set out with a dream, 

She put her best foot forward

Even though she didn't know how long

and hard chasing it would be 

In the end when she saw herself succeed 

It was worth all the struggles that she'd faced in between, 

that girl she is a genius and a queen 

Proud of her for standing firm

even when things looked discouraging 

She wasn't giving it up for anything 

& that's inspiring

By: J.N.R Dutton
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lucky

A new guest in my home was recently welcomed.
He's not a person, he's a terrapin.
Lucky is the name I have given him
because he was lucky I was around when I rescued him.
By the trash in a small fish bowl is where I found him.
His owners must have gotten bored with him.
This is one reason why I find people so discouraging.
Why couldn't they have simply released him?
I don't plan on keeping Lucky indefinitely.
When he's grown large enough to fend for himself, I'll set him free.
Form: Rhyme

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