Short Hopeless Poems

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


Premium Member Libra

Hopeless romantic.
Creative, inspired, but
Can't make up my mind.
Form: Senryu


Premium Member When All Seems Hopeless

i hold on fast to my dream
waiting for the night to dissipate
and the storm to pass



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Premium Member Of Mice and Men

and hopeless in between ~ who died like rats chasing american dreams


Book by John Steinbeck
Too late for Kim’s contest
Form: Monoku

Defenseless

Defenseless

Young, Black, Brown, Defenseless.
Naked, Bleeding, Mute, Defenseless.
Broken, Hopeless, Afraid, Defenseless.
© Carol Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tristich

Premium Member Hail Caesar

Wide-eyed, hopeless, there he staggers

In his back a dozen daggers

Dying, toga turning red

You too Brutus? Caesar said
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member A Fight

All I am is me;
Broken heart worn on my sleeve;
Forever friend zoned, 
A fight with ‘unloveable’;
Yet, a hopeless romantic.
Form: Tanka

Hopeless

Deep
Dark
Sadness
Overwhelms the soul
Inside
Outside
Fumbling my heart
My mind.
Hope?
Gone
Lost.
And all
In despair
sad
Form:

Premium Member Conformity

Conformity
Shackles
The
Mind  
Creativity
Squashed
Pacing
The
Hopeless
Cul-de-sac
Swallowing
The
Dregs
Of
Society.
Form: Prose

Hope of the Hopeless

A droplet of icicle glistening in the sun;
Frozen in a tear.
Is an unanswered prayer on a dead man’s lips;
Frozen in eternity.

Knots

Sounds of knots
Hopeless thoughts
find me oh so lost 
The face of grace 
Can not replace 
What He has for all;
Fear Not....
Form:

Soulless

Darkness
Soulless
Mindless
Hopeless
Falling through Darkness, in soulless strife
There dwells the mindless, Hopeless of life
Form: Tyburn

Cry

I want to sleep,
it doesn't hurt.

Sleep fails me
hopeless I pretend

making promises
hide from pain.

I smile,
as I wake

Premium Member Faith Through Unseen Grace-

I lost hopeless how do I know,  fa ith through unseen  grace is believed


10/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Form: Monoku

Premium Member angels of mercy and death

angel of mercy
helps the hopeless reach heaven
providing a way

angel of death
surprises the most hopeful
placing them sweetly
Form: Senryu

Confession

My wait for you 
kept me waiting for years
Though Im about to be Hopeless
Still that last Hope is there
And it will remain forever

Premium Member Hopeless--

focus bonus
open soulless
hopeful bonus
focus  coatless, 
homeless-hopeless


9/2/19
written word by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Form: Footle

Premium Member Hopeless Substance

Hopeless hope, 
 overcomes with faith,
 is beyond trust 
being substance




9/3/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Loneliness

A man is in the deep well, 
feeling hopeless and alone; 
His state is so hard to tell, 
having days dark and unknown. 

Form: Tanaga
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Despair

despair dusts hearts dreary draped in stark pain debris that angst next dresses more hopeless depressed
Form: Cinquain

Wrestling Womb

Waiting enrage some,
While others gladly pray on...
That favour hooks grace
Unto fortune's bait and sink¡
Hopeless sinker to lift boon.
Form: Tanka

Travel On

I travel on
weary, yet determined
tired, yet full of life
hopeful, yet hopeless
eternal, yet fleeting
knowing always, good trumps evil
© Bm Bm  Create an image from this poem.

Sludge

Thick sludge upon my
wings; sad eyes in need of help
Hopeless eyes searching

For Raul's contest
(Photo of an oil coated duck and beach)
Form: Haiku

Alive We Are

When we give in
We give hope.

When we give up
We are hopeless.

When we deep breath
We are alive.

When we give love
We give life.
Form: Couplet

Finding Love!

Hopeless and clueless?
I think it's a trap!
Hopeless and clueless?
Just don't let it snap!
Hopeless and clueless?
Find God's love A.S.A.P!
Form:

Hopeless

Hopeless
from sky falls rainbow, as clouds lose silver lining - dreams deferred drifting
Form: Haiku

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