Poems about Despair and Hopelessness
#despair
Poems about despair and hopelessness, poetry about when all hope has been abandoned. Poems about despair due to challenges in life, difficult relationship situations and grief. Emotional poems about losing hope.
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
16th May 2022 2:01pm
16th May 2022 2:01pm
Capitalism, Putin Style
It's no better when they blur their faces;
Let's see that family's final ugly state...
A ghastly scene of their murder cases
In the iron wake of national hate
Reiterating war's...heinous nature.
So please, no "family friendly" censorships
Or ANY deceptive nomenclature
From the demagogue's duplicitous quips
Suggesting slaughter and defense the same
When maternity wards know better
Than ANY hidebound conservative claim
From ANY old apocalypse letter
Rewritten for the industrial age...
With sin and death...still the primary wage.
Let's see that family's final ugly state...
A ghastly scene of their murder cases
In the iron wake of national hate
Reiterating war's...heinous nature.
So please, no "family friendly" censorships
Or ANY deceptive nomenclature
From the demagogue's duplicitous quips
Suggesting slaughter and defense the same
When maternity wards know better
Than ANY hidebound conservative claim
From ANY old apocalypse letter
Rewritten for the industrial age...
With sin and death...still the primary wage.
#anger
#frustration
#despair
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adagio
Poem Published
16th May 2022 1:53pm
16th May 2022 1:53pm
Murmur - with rubyredheart
How many voices have you heard today? Listening to what others
have to say. Through the wall of your mind, echoing. From the
attic where dead time is stored in a box. Ignored and now
wilted memories of mom's coffee pot, dripping insomnia. While
grandpa's ashes rest in the Crock-Pot. In conversation with
the biscuits and gravy waiting for the washer to stop cycling.
How many voices have you heard today?
Where have their flights taken your soul today? In a canoe
on the river, did those ashes breathe and stroke the water?
Did that...
have to say. Through the wall of your mind, echoing. From the
attic where dead time is stored in a box. Ignored and now
wilted memories of mom's coffee pot, dripping insomnia. While
grandpa's ashes rest in the Crock-Pot. In conversation with
the biscuits and gravy waiting for the washer to stop cycling.
How many voices have you heard today?
Where have their flights taken your soul today? In a canoe
on the river, did those ashes breathe and stroke the water?
Did that...
#despair
#emptiness
#collaboration
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Wired6
Poem Published
16th May 2022 12:09pm
16th May 2022 12:09pm
EMPTY.
So seriously,
I'm looking through the lens of empty.
Me around empty shakes melodically,uncontrollably.
Inability 2 stop man- handling empty.
Empty defiantly stares at me.
Empty irritates me..
Please!- it begs me.
Swim in the depths of me.
Me,me,me.
How can I resist such chemistry.
NOW!
You listen 2 me empty.
I'm in control!
Seen!
I'm not a follower of you empty....
I'm looking through the lens of empty.
Me around empty shakes melodically,uncontrollably.
Inability 2 stop man- handling empty.
Empty defiantly stares at me.
Empty irritates me..
Please!- it begs me.
Swim in the depths of me.
Me,me,me.
How can I resist such chemistry.
NOW!
You listen 2 me empty.
I'm in control!
Seen!
I'm not a follower of you empty....
#confusion
#despair
#denial
#boredom
#bittersweet
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Sandals
Poem Published
15th May 2022 2:19am
15th May 2022 2:19am
Cuss Me
Cuss me
I luv u
Cuss me
I need u
Love u
I do luv u
Love u
Oh I do enjoy u
Thanks for laughing
Thanks for all those smerks
U have a smile my in love
With u heart really for ah works
I luv u
Cuss me
I need u
Love u
I do luv u
Love u
Oh I do enjoy u
Thanks for laughing
Thanks for all those smerks
U have a smile my in love
With u heart really for ah works
#happiness
#love
#dark
#UnrequitedLove
#despair
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faithmairee
Poem Published
13th May 2022 10:06am
13th May 2022 10:06am
desiree
she was just a child
at her momma'a side
combing that coal black hair
until it shined
she asked momma what
does it mean to love
momma said it means to sacrifice
poppa said you know
it's just too late to cry
he's dead and he
never should've died
it was a bullet in
his head his momma cried
it was bound to happen anyway
all she ever wanted
was to love him
all he ever did
was look her way
now she cries out in
the middle of the night
lord, his dying
must be...
at her momma'a side
combing that coal black hair
until it shined
she asked momma what
does it mean to love
momma said it means to sacrifice
poppa said you know
it's just too late to cry
he's dead and he
never should've died
it was a bullet in
his head his momma cried
it was bound to happen anyway
all she ever wanted
was to love him
all he ever did
was look her way
now she cries out in
the middle of the night
lord, his dying
must be...
#depression
#death
#suicide #despair
#suicide #despair
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fieryangelsouljia
M6rr6g6n
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Bumped 13th May 2022 2:34am
8th May 2022 6:10am
8th May 2022 6:10am
the Last Tree on Earth
In my world, there's one last tree
somewhere the desert
meets the sea
and I wish it could comfort me,
keep me safe like company
I'm gazing at the swaying fruit
with a tongue that's parched
and a mouth that's mute..
and all I want
is to lay near it's roots
under that blasted sky of blue
So somewhere several feet away
I'm sitting just outside it's shade
comfort there beyond my reach
unfulfilled and incomplete
hands reaching, eyes praying
hunger won't get the best of me
For this is the one...
somewhere the desert
meets the sea
and I wish it could comfort me,
keep me safe like company
I'm gazing at the swaying fruit
with a tongue that's parched
and a mouth that's mute..
and all I want
is to lay near it's roots
under that blasted sky of blue
So somewhere several feet away
I'm sitting just outside it's shade
comfort there beyond my reach
unfulfilled and incomplete
hands reaching, eyes praying
hunger won't get the best of me
For this is the one...
#sadness
#loneliness
#despair
#separation
#fear
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robert43041
Viking
Viking
Poem Published
12th May 2022 4:09am
12th May 2022 4:09am
The magic wand
He looked in the mirror
And saw nothing.
No body
No face
No shadow.
The witch had really done it.
The bitch must have paid her
A very nice sum
She meant for him to disappear
From her life.
Forever.
But he never thought she could throw such a spell.
She had completely annihilated him.
He woke up as if out of a trance,
Jerked away from this nightmare
Sweating like a pig.
At the foot of the bed was his suitcase
Somebody had already packed it.
Passport on top
A wad of cash
And a one way ticket ...
And saw nothing.
No body
No face
No shadow.
The witch had really done it.
The bitch must have paid her
A very nice sum
She meant for him to disappear
From her life.
Forever.
But he never thought she could throw such a spell.
She had completely annihilated him.
He woke up as if out of a trance,
Jerked away from this nightmare
Sweating like a pig.
At the foot of the bed was his suitcase
Somebody had already packed it.
Passport on top
A wad of cash
And a one way ticket ...
#anxiety
#confusion
#despair
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jessica_orr
Jessica Orr
Jessica Orr
Poem Published
11th May 2022 2:09am
11th May 2022 2:09am
nerds are us
I didn't do it,
you must have guessed at;
I fly by a different realm-
I enjoy sun and dizzy calm;
I leave the party to play dungeons & dragons;
I release the smile of always suffering fools;
I can't and won't live it down.
understanding the wiles of fellow humans
is best left to the philosophers and
I'll just be that hermit girl,
again and red mountain dew as that other
fellow dork said.
you must have guessed at;
I fly by a different realm-
I enjoy sun and dizzy calm;
I leave the party to play dungeons & dragons;
I release the smile of always suffering fools;
I can't and won't live it down.
understanding the wiles of fellow humans
is best left to the philosophers and
I'll just be that hermit girl,
again and red mountain dew as that other
fellow dork said.
#LifeStruggles
#confusion
#SelfReflection
#despair
#acceptance
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Strangeways_Rob
Poem Published
9th May 2022 8:55pm
9th May 2022 8:55pm
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Sickness
My skin is a pile of potato peeling
Translucent as a (thousand year) dead star.
Ballerinas of broken glass sail the washing-up bowl
Clink as chunks of stolen diamonds
thumping in my chest.
Shores of Victorian-slate twilight
Mist poverty perfume onto neck of the day.
Blue ambulance lights breach against the streetlamps,
Blinking awake the sullen séance with eventides.
Kettle fountain spurts up towards some kind of heaven,
Reflecting briefly as sunlight in a black...
Translucent as a (thousand year) dead star.
Ballerinas of broken glass sail the washing-up bowl
Clink as chunks of stolen diamonds
thumping in my chest.
Shores of Victorian-slate twilight
Mist poverty perfume onto neck of the day.
Blue ambulance lights breach against the streetlamps,
Blinking awake the sullen séance with eventides.
Kettle fountain spurts up towards some kind of heaven,
Reflecting briefly as sunlight in a black...
#hope
#marriage
#despair
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MelancholicDreamer
Poem Published
8th May 2022 9:17pm
8th May 2022 9:17pm
Bathing in the ocean of darkness
Once I just saw the beauty in melancholy
Now Im drawn to despair obsessively
Im bathing in the ocean of darkness
It's dangerous
Cause soon I may drown
The darkness overshadows the light
Until it's gone completely
The ocean floods my mind
Until the last ship of happiness has been taken away by the darkest of waves
I need to shield the dark waves
I need to find the light
But the darkness controls me
One side of me doesn't want the light
It wants to bathe in the ocean of darkness,
The sea of sorrow, ...
Now Im drawn to despair obsessively
Im bathing in the ocean of darkness
It's dangerous
Cause soon I may drown
The darkness overshadows the light
Until it's gone completely
The ocean floods my mind
Until the last ship of happiness has been taken away by the darkest of waves
I need to shield the dark waves
I need to find the light
But the darkness controls me
One side of me doesn't want the light
It wants to bathe in the ocean of darkness,
The sea of sorrow, ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#dark
#despair
#fear
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BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
8th May 2022 6:17am
8th May 2022 6:17am
Collared Soul
#anger
#shame
#UnrequitedLove #despair
#UnrequitedLove #despair
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OyateInyanNajin
Poem Published
6th May 2022 3:30am
6th May 2022 3:30am
HIV - 92 (1992, Galveston Island, Texas)
5 a m
lost adrift
here again
in the wee hours
of early morning
im not surprised
at all
for its not
the first night
nor first time
outer and inner traumas
have combined
to link up into
these heavy
knotted chains
ive stayed up
all night
feeling unable
to set myself free from
much less
sufficiently describe
unable to unlock
break or escape
until hour after hour
of all these
nights without sleep
have all lapsed
slipped sleeplessly away
without any ...
lost adrift
here again
in the wee hours
of early morning
im not surprised
at all
for its not
the first night
nor first time
outer and inner traumas
have combined
to link up into
these heavy
knotted chains
ive stayed up
all night
feeling unable
to set myself free from
much less
sufficiently describe
unable to unlock
break or escape
until hour after hour
of all these
nights without sleep
have all lapsed
slipped sleeplessly away
without any ...
#death
#despair
#FeelingLost
#emptiness
#fear
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