Short False Hope Poems

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


L.O.V.E.

L ife’s greatest creation
O ffering false hope to those who cry, 
V exation to those who long for it [this
E verlasting lie]
© Melanie D  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic


Premium Member Untitled

glib smiles and handshakes
empty promises and lies
you offer false hope
evil intent is hidden 
your true soul is well disguised
Form: Tanka

Hope Monoku

I
Hope dances in sparkling terms

II
Dashed justice equals ascerbic lives

III
Hope sparkles like false diamonds in South Africa
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Autobiographer

Writing into the night,
attempting to fill voids
of an empty life and
plaster over the pain.
Words offer false hope,
daylight, harsh truth.

Premium Member False Hope

She said no
Showing maybe hope
Of one chance
That could be
But there was just nothing there
Vibes false hope

Russell Sivey

Form – Shadorma -- 3/5/3/3/7/5
Form: Shadorma


Premium Member Deceit

False hope
Arrogance
Misunderstandings
Unwelcome

False story
Found out
Deceit
Unkind

False promises
Lies
Never to be trusted again
Ever

Until tomorrow

Fault Lines

Spiritual draftsmen,
builders of walls
Demanding blind homage,
 tithes of false hope

Fortressing darkness,
ministering fear
Evangelist’s rumbling
—prophets who quake

(Rosemont College: July, 2021)

False Hope

You smile.
You wave.
It's false hope,
You gave.

I loved.
I hoped. 
You rejected. 
I coped. 

My heart.
My soul.
Is jaded
You know. 

(From) 
You're smile.
You're wave.
The false hope
You gave.

False Hope Again

Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  no reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out,
  false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Monsters Iii

Morning is never coming
for we live in the dark,
and hands touch with false hope
that tomorrow we will not bear the mark;
for the hand that touches
is cold sharp and gray
and blinds us from morning,
bleeding us away.

False Hope

Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  fates reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out
   —false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

False Hope

A gravestone.
It says Sheila Ryan, died aged 59
A devoted mother

Here clinging to the hillside
Striving, for the solemn white cross at the top

Standing
quiet, 
unmoving, 
unsympathetic.

As soil creep carries the believer down the hill.
Form:

What Might Have Been

for dreams last so long,
                               destined for what might have been-
      indulged in false hope




I chose: "You Were Meant for Me" -Jewel

September 2, 2019
Sing Me a Senryu Contest
Maureen McGreavy
Form: Senryu

3-28-19

Abandon the quest for luck,
Luck is the product of false hope,
The life you live is purposeful, divine,
Pick up your faith, hold it firmly,
Remember to love your self first,
That you may love others,
Know then the blessings received are divinely ordained.

Premium Member Dark Delusion

Death knock unwelcome
Ego unprepared
Clinging to false hope
Till the very end
Life replay regret

Heartbeat soon stops
The veil lifted
What lies beyond
Same as within 

The mind games
Continue
Desires spew

Replay
The same

Phew

26-January-2021

Scars of Hope

I’d rather have the satisfaction of not having regrets.

Rather than chasing false hope in the form of delusion. 

I will give you my dignity. 

In exchange for sanity. 

So that I don’t have to be locked away any longer. 

And I can shrivel into the alley once more.

Iron Butterfly

Isn’t time cruel
Never stable or forgiving
When you’d forfeit everything
Just to feel something

When it’s all broken
And you have no more tears to cry
When all you have is false hope
And it seems you might survive
You’re fooling yourself
You’re nothing more than an iron butterfly

Crush

Crush,
How perfect you are,
In my eyes,
In my heart.

Crush,
How sweet you are,
When you open your mouth,
Or maybe when you just shut your eyes.

Crush,
How misery I felt,
When you lied,
When you  gave me false hope.

Crush,
It is you,
After all,
In every way,
In my heart.
Form: Verse

Premium Member False Ketten

False hope, I extinguish it all.
All your light, snuffed in my swallow.
Swallow hard flushing pretense down,
down choking as you expel false. 

False flickers like a warning sign, 
sign off with that last signature. 
Signature you claim to detest,
detest with ease what is not false.
Form: Other

Gunshot of Autonomy

Caged up in the brain’s shackles of lust and lies
Rags of despair disillusion and utter reformed thoughts hang
Puddles of thick perverse actions gather and stain crimson  
For he is a mirage of false hope cascading over your senses
Then final reiteration of the branded instant’s ultimate sound.

Premium Member Cityscape

Dark lines betray
A lover's soul
Shadows cast
Within the tunneled alleyways
Hidden beneath
Sun sparkled peaks
Traps sprung in loneliness
Baited in despair's longing
Scented
With false hope
Watched over
By predatory pain

A rat scurries
In the silence.

John G. Lawless

1/7/2020

Pipe Dream

pipe dream 
false hope 
in a future 
together 
unrealistic 
irrational 
internalized 
rose colored 
clouds that 
cover up the 
truth of reality 
there is no hope 
for a future together 
now 
truly there was 
never ever any 
chance of a life 
time together 
it was all just a 
fantasy
Form: Lyric

I Just Can'T Win

The dice always lands on that zero
And what are the odds, zero
Even so, why bother?
Because luck is an illusion
Luring us the losers to confusion
With false hope, living us bitter  
Stuck in this infinite losing streak 
That you so badly want to break
In this game you can’t win
Until you really sin
Form: Rhyme

Poetry

talking to yourself
in/comprehensible jumbles
matching the striped suits
of paper authors clutched
into soft pillows
dreaming of salvation 
army bookworms
marching to the cadence
of false hope
waiting for the last
merciful black door
to open wide enough
to let the vapors 
seep back into the void

Pitter Patter

Woke up this morning to the pitter patter of raindrops
Thought it was your heart beating next to mine
But alas, it was only the raindrops beating on my window sill
That had given me false hope of your presence
When I reached out you weren't there

So sad ..So sad ..So sad 

Pitter patter …Pitter patter…Pitter patter …………

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