Short Hopelessness Poems

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


Premium Member Haiku - Senryu 6: The days are coming

The days are coming that will be daunting for all hopelessness beckons. ____________________
Form: Senryu


Lacking Melody

Do you ever feel like a song Written on a blank page No melody Just black lines, smudges on an empty page

Grief

Grief

Grief
Tears
Heartache 
Fears
The hopelessness 
The yearning 

Silent 
Cry 
Asking 
Why 
Another candle’s
Burning
Form: Elegy

Recipe For Hope

Glistening sun with
A beam of hope toppings
With the crust of hopelessness cut off
Sprinkled with resilience
And garnished with faith

Success and Failure

Success is the transition point

Of dream to reality,

Whereas failure occurs when the hopelessness

Blends perfectly with bad attitude.


When Hope Begets Hopelessness

H ealth forsakes you
O ver and over magic tonics promise recovery
P otential healing lures promising in the trees, again
E ven Eve knows better than to pick and eat, again
Form: Acrostic

Unforgiveness

Follow me into the abyss
Lower me into the well
Drink of my hopelessness 
Swim into my faultiness 

Swallow your pride 
Take another stride

You’ll never make it out alive

Premium Member too little too late

the pulse of humanity
shudders in throbbing pain
meanwhile muffled cries of hopelessness
await redemption as tears of time
may possibly wash away
man's devastation


AP: 3rd place 2025

12 Midnight

Woes knock on my door
in the middle of my sleep.
How gentle is good night?
I mourn in the deep. 
Grey is the color of my life 
Hopelessness - I see!
It slowly conquers my soul
I am willing to set it free.

Premium Member Much Preferable

MUCH PREFERABLE


Much 
Preferable for me
Would be,
In the whirlpool of your
Hopelessness to
Vanish 
Than
Solace to seek 
Into another woman’s  
Embrace! 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
  12 February 2013
Form: Epigram

Warm Winter

I was anxious to dwell at the door of your dreams. My desire too weak to serve as a continence to your needs. If my love be unrequainted then how can I rise above the hopelessness of my solitude within your embrace.

Let the Wings Spread and Fly

M-ake your presence felt, 
A-iming for huge success; 
N-ever clip your wings
I-n the nook of hopelessness.
L-et the wings spread and fly, 
Y-earning to soar above the cloud; 
N-ew tomorrow is waiting to make the whole world proud.
Form: Acrostic

Salty Rain

With the greyness of the sky above
The sky is crying
Resembling the soul of someone in pain
Hopelessness falling from the sky 
Like tears from the eyes
As it beats the ground
The pain of loss is tattooed on the soul 
For a lifetime

Hollow Cry

Justice is fist raised
Justice is a statue
Justice is a hollow cry
Justice is a noose
While the poor die and forgotten
The rich are celebrated and remembered
The society claims it has overcome racism
Inside my head,just mumble
Hopelessness
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bi Polar

Sometimes I'm full of hope and optimism.
Other times I feel hopelessness and pessimism.
It can drive one crazy having such feelings conflicting.
If true balance can be attained, I pray for its fruition
without the use of pharmaceutical medication.
Form: Rhyme

Depression

A mind clouded in darkness
A mind full of hopelessness

A mind full of despair
A mind that is beyond repair

A mind full of negative thinking
Is like a ship that is sinking

Positive thoughts are what I seek
For an outlook that seems so bleak
Form: Rhyme

War Days

Gone past, are those of
best of days in vain;
The thought does surge,
me through the total pain;
Of once we're covered lands,
now stand Blood Rain;
Earth cries, in hopelessness,
as beauty slain;
To me you tell this,
waged War great, what gain?

I Have Never

There is a love in me that’s unknown,
like a seed
I’ve never sown

A life with miseries alone,
for a pain
I’d never groan(ed)

A heart that needs to atone,
for things
I’ve never known

A feeling of hopelessness,	
for a life
I’d never own(ed)
© Arya Gupta  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

In Jail

Once more I pace this jail house floor
it's so frightening to be here.
It is filled with many memories
of hopelessness and fear.

My heart aches for my one true love
but she is far away.
I yearn to hold her close once more
and by her side to stay.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lost

Lost

Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes
leaving us with a sense of hopelessness and
loss. We must learn to
let these feelings go and
look ahead to what comes next. Otherwise, we will
lose our perspective and not
like what we se in the mirror.
Form: Pleiades

Last Crimson Swirl

Drowning in self degradation
Deliberate affliction is exacerbating 
Crystalline facade dulling senses 
Normalcy, forgetting our consensus


Score, decennary years within  
point, swirling under skin
Finality, deaths creeping in
Exodus, my last syringe
Form: Quatrain

Depression

My eyes ache from the dullness, the dullness I see everyday.
The sun is a nightlight to my vision, flower's have no scent, colors look grey white 
and black. 
When I breath in, I breath a rot, a smell of hopelessness.
My soul has left for greener pastures.
Form:

Toxick

Take your being
out of existence 
you are not needed.
Painted the younger minds
with doubt,
self hate,
and hopelessness,
so full of darkness.
Cast yourself aside,
nothing but scum.
Poison the flesh.
Kill the mind.
Smash the heart.
Trash the soul.

Temporary Renters

Precious memories
Angry tears
Hurting heart
Hidden fears

Lonely nights
Hectic days
Blinding headache
My mind strays

Unwanted soul
Trapped alone
Emptiness inside
Never shown

Happiness replaced
Sadness enters
Hopelessness lives
Temporary renters
Form: Rhyme

Forest

In the midnight shadows kissed by her darkest trees
The branches of hopelessness will lure you in with lustful sleep
Awake!
Look beyond it!
Look at that glimmer of hope
Her beckoning streak of morning sunshine
Yearning to turn the dead branches anew once more

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