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Wishfulness Poems - Poems about Wishfulness

Cat Owning a Damn Place

...You enter a long gallery. A gallery, despite your wishfulness, bears no resemblance to the morbidly cozy corridors of painted grotesque figures hung across the walls all over other rooms. A gallery -...

Categories: wishfulness, cat,
Form: Free verse

A Remembrance Day Poem

...Christ and the Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon (1916)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OEnXw7P60


The straggled soldier halted and clumsily went down  "O blessed crucifix, I'm beat !"
C...

Categories: wishfulness, world war i, world
Form: Narrative

Grey Streets

...It shakes off the bad dreams of the night before
Underneath the sickly blue neon sign that
Buzzes it's contempt for him.
It's eyes stay closed not wanting to see
The misery that lay before him 
...

Categories: wishfulness, addiction, allusion, anxiety, baseball,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Water's Weakness

...There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)

That weakness o...

Categories: wishfulness, power, psychological, water, western,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

85th Birthday - Journal Ix

...85TH BIRTHDAY –
Journal IX

Nostalgia figures no
time span
An event of many,
many years seems no
more
      than a few
Looking out on the
world with the same
eyes
Memory is tricked
Ah yes that, but
w...

Categories: wishfulness, introspection,
Form: Lyric

I See

...I see
I see that kid in the corner of the orphanage with that pesky cleft lip that nobody 
wants to call theirs.
I see his hope.
His sorrow.
His hatred.

I see 
I see that poor woman down the...

Categories: wishfulness, inspirationalworld,
Form: Free verse

Gardens Made of Stone

...been save-en pocket change
  to catch a train
  a ride to the world
  of milk an honey

  pockets ran empty
  not un-like
  the lies of hope

  so i cast
  with empty eyes
  upon a garden
...

Categories: wishfulness, life,
Form: Blank verse