Short False Hope Poems

broke enough to not buy into false hope and dreams...

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When you fashion your hope on empty promise and expectation... play a sad song....

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songs midnight birds sing,
sound nothing like daybreak birds; 
false hope has ended...

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Your patronizing comments
A magnet near my compass
Giving me false hope

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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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]...

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

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I
Hope dances in sparkling terms

II
Dashed justice equals ascerbic lives

III
Hope sparkles like false diamonds in South Africa...

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

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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...

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False hope
Arrogance
Misunderstandings
Unwelcome

False story
Found out
Deceit
Unkind

False promises
Lies
Never to be trusted again
Ever

Until tomorrow...

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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)...

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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....

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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)...

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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....

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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)...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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