Short Hope Pain Poems

I’m most tired of wishing
  —when hope turns to pain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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our hopes fly about 
like bubbles full of air, 
Is it because we put them off 
to another year?...

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Seconds moved on
Minutes moved on
Hours moved on
Pain moved
Days moved on
Months moved on 
Heal moved on
Year moved on
Why thee didn't move on?...

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Shards of light filter   my heart

 pulling back     the black

 leaving streaks
                          . . . of joy 

Where hope was   lost

                 . . . life breathes...

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When relentless grief plows your heart 

And intolerable is the pain 

Forget not, to sow your dream's seed, 

At harvest, you would know your gain!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       14 May 2022...

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Scars settle on my wrist, recording all my pain
Blood seeps from the new cuts, flowing gently from my arm
Tears running down my face, as I choke back my sobs
Someday I will be free, from the pain that chains me...

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If I said all I saw,
No one would believe me.
If I said all I felt,
No one would show empathy.

All I can do is live in awe;
Of how strong I have grown to be.
Hoping that someday,
I will thrive in this oddity....

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and when I cry, I feel it - the release
but still, this overwhelming pain won't cease
when we have one thing
we must lose the other
I need to focus on my dreams now
change my destiny
always, there is a new path to discover...

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Broken rocky garden, overgrown, torn
Bending her splintered hope, divided pain
Token throwaway cuts, discarded scorn
Spending relief's pennies, enticing rain


9/15/19

Originally in ‘Her Rocky Garden’ on this site

Arbitrium Divisa 4 contest
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden...

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As I see the sky, 
Some birds are flying across,  So I turn back home. 
 
Sleeping on my bed, 
         I close my eye and dreaming,    Thinking in my head. 
               
                            Wake up in midnight, 
       I saw a dusk settle down, Flewing in my eye....

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Life's whirlwind swirls about my mind
A maze of tomorrow's come...to pass
Which way to turn is unforeseen
Sorrow's womb has born a child
Of labor, long and strained
A manchild faced with Unlived Dreams
Must brave tomorrow's wake

Copyright   Iger Rolyat   All Rights Reserved...

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If tears were rain
A river would find me
Drowning 
Drifting away 
Though love is pain
Can’t leave it behind me
Yearning 
Wanting to stay

Where will it end
Can rainbows be certain 
Waiting 
Learning to pray 
Sun, be my friend 
Tear open the curtain 
Hoping 
To see a new day...

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I sleep.
Enfolded in peace.
The agony and pain
Disappear:
The burning, the sorrow, the flame
Enfolded in peace.

I wake.
Entranced by life.
Remembering fire
Inside;
Death before sleep, and now
Entranced by life. 

I rise.
Enraptured by flight.
The strength within
Burning. 
Spreading my wings, I soar
Enraptured by flight....

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Honey I’m not the first whose eye you’ve caught
But damn it all if I’m the same
Like it’ll actually last, I’m all wrapped up in you
Caution to the wind, who cares about tomorrow
I’m crazy for this and you don’t even know
What was I thinking, thinking about you
You’re miles above me and don’t even see it
All I know is how much I wish you knew...

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If the world is destroyed,
If the air turns hurt,
If the pains are severe,
If love turns to hatred,
There is only one thing left.

If I fail this day,
If I die tonight,
If the truth hurts,
like slave master's steel,

I swear never
to cry,
for I know

there’s one
thing left:

ideology.

A Stewart Annie Everestus’s poem © 2019...

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Life's got me in a chokehold,
but it's not the same asphyxiation that I crave.
I loathe when pouring my heart out
is seen as "very brave"
When it's not bravery that compells me,
But hope.  Hope for a better future for those who relate
And some kind of catharsis for my pain.
It does not take bravery to tell a story,
but bravery to be the one who lives through it....

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In the stillness of the night,
A fire will slowly ignite,
A fire to change her fate,
A fire to remove anger and hate.

Beyond the edge of reason,
A world will change this season,
A change of state,
A change you can’t underestimate.

Through the eyes of a child,
Her world will stop running wild.
This is the end of her wait,
Something she’ll forever celebrate....

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HOLLYWOOD DREAMER...

Mesmeric pursuits consumed
all his energies:
leaving him only frustrations
to nourish his mangled pride.

Magic dreams
that once fueled his being
slowly decayed
into infectious nightmares:
leaving him to loathe
the coming of each dawn.

Each dawn gradually revealing
naked realities of eroded dreams:
Hollywood's honeycombed
hollow hopes....

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High on my anger, 
Flowing like lava, 
Rage incarnate, 
Regrets sure to come. 
But who cares, 
You don't, 
If you did this would not be happening, 
All you care about is yourself,
Plain to see by anyone with eyes. 
Actions speak so loud, 
They need turned down. 
Rest in piece,  I hope you don't. 
I hope pain finds you someday, 
And reaches you the way you reached me....

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Author Dana Redricks
August 5, 2018

Although my body is consumed 
with pain, and it seems a dark
cloud seems to hover above
No matter what we go through
We are surrounded by God's love
Although my body fails me here
One day I will have a body 
that never fails
We will spend eternity with 
God, and never feel any 
suffering and pain, and there 
will be joy everlasting...

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The rose never complains about the thorns
For it knows they are there to protect it
For it knows it is precious 
The wild flower never complains about the ruins on which it has grown
For it knows only it can bloom 
In places no other flower can grow
Why do you complain about your imperfections then ? 
Why do you not embrace your flaws ? 
Believe me they are there for a reason
Believe me they are meant to be yours...

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My wife Irina's from Ukraine
  Right now her heart is filled with pain
From cries of distant friends who fear
  The End of Days may well be near

I hold her hand as she sheds tears
  as Hope can all but disappear...
It's then she cries, "O, Awesome One
  Salvation bring! Your Kingdom come!"



 ________________________________
Irina is my wife's name. She was born in
Kharkiv Ukraine and lived there 37 years....

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Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? 
They say that hope is found even in dark places. 
When all i feel is pain. 
 
The sorrows of the past have drowned me
Suffocating me with questions of what could have been, 
and what have i become? 

Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? 
Every candle needs to be lit. 
So before you go looking for the light. 

Look for the box of matches 
Hope can be found is dark places....

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sweet friend, feeling beyond devastated
  your bruised heart weak and beaten
     your body your worst foe

how I would love to take away your pain -
  fight...   can't let this swindle you
     of your spirit life too 

what I would give to replenish your soul
  with soothing serenity
     and see you smile once more



Posted on July 12, 2018 for contest KIMO THERAPY sponsored by CAROL CONNELL  -  RANKED 3RD...

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I’m breaking
Like the branch in the wind
Falling
Falling
Falling down to the ground

I don’t want to fall alone
In this world, my heart belongs to you
So please, don’t let me fall to the ground

Please, don’t let me fall
Hold me close
Feel the warmth between our hearts
Hold me close
Feel our lips softly touch
Hold the winds back don’t let them rip us apart

In our hearts 
there is us
With our Love
Soul to Soul...

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