Short Empty Promises Poems
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I lay with no redemption upon broken strings of empty promises...
by Deb Radke
for the 'One Amazing Line' contest
glib smiles and handshakes
empty promises and lies
you offer false hope
evil intent is hidden
your true soul is well disguised
Did you lead me on?
I had dreams you might measure up.
Was it really just illusion?
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Empty promises,
Tell me what I want to hear
But, i'm on defense!!!!
.......:JP)..07/19/2009
You say you hate him but you won’t escape him. You give me anxiety that I can not flee, you create toxicity and you let it capture me all so he can thrive.
To inflict on tomorrow,
the empty promises of fate
The will to reign indifferent
—the devil’s cruelest form of hate
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
We shared hopes and dreams
I never thought you’d let me down
You thought time would just stand still
All you gave me were empty promises
AP: 2nd place 2025
To inflict on tomorrow,
the empty promises of fate
The will to reign indifferent,
—the devil’s cruelest form of hate
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
His currency was empty promises.
He doled them out like no tomorrow.
Meanwhile mountain of debt accrued.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Made promises you didn't keep.
Just words in the moment to appease.
Words that sounded good at the time.
Mere words with no substance.
Words not worth their weight in gold.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Nigerian graduates,
Suffering because of unemployment,
believing in government’s empty promises.
A meaningless hope on a janus-faced entity
governing sadistically.
A Stewart Annie Everestus's poem © 2019
Careless Lies
You with your careless lies
Your lying eyes
The quick disguise
You with your empty promises
Your lack of remorse
The smirk of a hawk
You in your downfall
Your addiction
The apt prediction
Unfulfilled misguided sweet dreams
Empty promises bursting at the seems
Relentless misgivings turbulent love
Once interwoven like a silken glove
Lost but not forgotten always treasured
Symbolic reveries coiled hearts measured
Vote for us, we’ll give you a house
And you are not allowed to grouse
It is just a masquerade
Empty promises made
Your house might turn out to be for a mouse
4th place
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We cannot eat lies
or feast on empty promises
No more than the bison,
starving in the desert sand
We cannot clothe our children
as we run from the Wasichus
Our teepees torn and freezing
amidst the winter snows
(Pine Ridge South Dakota: Late September, 1994)
Just say it's over
Wave a banner to the stars
Say good bye to what was ours
For the sun has set & the night beset
Our love in hues of gray
Your heart strayed from mine
My love for you fell into crimson wine
Intoxicating my senses
With empty promises & hollow kisses.
Darkness sucks
With empty promises of peace
It’s empty shadows lie
To souls of poets that had to die
It hides in lonely shadowed why
Empathic askers staring cry
Reality gets hard to hold
Painful yesterdays pile high
For letting go is easy done
Until you know
Tomorrow’s gone
We are all strangers here
Streetlights glow
Against a canvas of night
Solitude in a crowded frame
The underlying current of shame
Silent whispers across the counter
Unheard tales of the city's hum
Coffee cups, half-empty promises
Half-full hypocrisies
The long shadow of the unseen.
You promised me the world, but only gave me the slums.
You promised me the moon and stars, but only gave me ashes.
You promised me happiness, but only gave me heartache.
You promised me love, but only gave me pain.
And when you promised to always be true,
I didn't realize it was only to you.
Be still my beating heart
Resonating off hollow halls
Be quiet my playful passion
Teasing empty promises
Behave my subdued hope
For dreams are made of dust
Be gone my lurid fantasies
For lust is the flavour of hate
Stop. My bleeding heart
Dripping sentiment unwelcome.
Rebecca .A. Huxley
Form:
Pastel painting
Our world to grey
Twisting and turning
Through another day
Passing through the shadows
Of words unspoken
Speaking empty promises
Made to be broken
Living through
Another day
Of our society's
Moral decay
Is this all that life
Could really be
Freedom of man
Are we truly free?
Form:
( HALLOWEEN )
H- Horrid monsters walk the streets
A- Asking for blood and bones.
L- Lurking in the shadows afar
L- Lamplights offer the light.
O- Ominous creatures slither slowly
W- Working through the night.
E- Eager witches get on their brooms
E- Empty promises not fulfilled.
N- Night of nights its halloween
what is love to you
a term to sign with your name
a hollow box of empty promises
a packet in your purse to smooth over
your sharp comments
who do you love
other than yourself
in reply to everything you weave a story
of yourself
love is the selfless giving
not expecting anything in return
and rejoicing
at reciprocation
Faded maps,
Empty promises,
A king's cruel decree.
Shadows lengthen,
On shattered temples, dust
Chanting, a false saviour.
Twisted truths,
A poisoned well,
Power's hungry grip.
Ancient stones whisper,
Secrets buried, buried deep,
We must find our light.
A single spark,
Igniting the heart,
Shattering the chains.
Once I was someone
A young girl with hopes and aspirations
I became a wife, a mother needed and loved.
My purpose was clear,
Now I have achieved my destination
And there is nothing left
only darkness remains
The road ahead is filled with empty promises
And long forgotten smiles
Discarded and useless
A wasted space
I am no more