Poems About Despair by Top Critiquers
#despair
Poems about despair by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
31st Jan 2025 3:17pm
31st Jan 2025 3:17pm
The NO Sign
Tired
is telling yourself no
but knowing you have to say yes
and so you carry on
Exhausted
is hearing the word NO
screaming at you
but turning down the volume
carrying on your duties
ignoring the shouting
though you hear it
every minute
of every day
Beyond exhausted
is tripping over the word NO
bruising yourself all over
getting up,
carrying on your daily routine
Running head first
into the NO sign
as it smashes you in the face
breaking your nose
and bloodying your mouth ...
is telling yourself no
but knowing you have to say yes
and so you carry on
Exhausted
is hearing the word NO
screaming at you
but turning down the volume
carrying on your duties
ignoring the shouting
though you hear it
every minute
of every day
Beyond exhausted
is tripping over the word NO
bruising yourself all over
getting up,
carrying on your daily routine
Running head first
into the NO sign
as it smashes you in the face
breaking your nose
and bloodying your mouth ...
#anxiety
#despair
#FeelingLost
49 reads
4 Comments
poeticdelight
Hamid
Hamid
Poem Published
28th Feb 2024 3:10pm
28th Feb 2024 3:10pm
Poets, The Innocent Liars
sometimes we have to fake to live
for a nice feedback to receive
thus, our hearts are quite and calm
and yet, we express too much pain
we are liars, the deceiftul writers
wicked crafters, and manipulators
we seek sympathy and others attention
even against our own self-abnegation
but, sincerely we are very bad actors
making color movies from old cliches
outdated scripts and Hitchcock scenarios
to look pitiful in masked low-budget thrillers
the innocent words to outwardly deliver
alas ! die so fast...
for a nice feedback to receive
thus, our hearts are quite and calm
and yet, we express too much pain
we are liars, the deceiftul writers
wicked crafters, and manipulators
we seek sympathy and others attention
even against our own self-abnegation
but, sincerely we are very bad actors
making color movies from old cliches
outdated scripts and Hitchcock scenarios
to look pitiful in masked low-budget thrillers
the innocent words to outwardly deliver
alas ! die so fast...
#rejection
#abuse
#misunderstood
#despair
#emotional
242 reads
4 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
20th Jul 2024 11:46pm
20th Jul 2024 11:46pm
Angel of My Lyceum Dreams
Angel of My Lyceum Dreams
Caravansary of souls
Where my tender sprout of youth
Lived after the steam of tears
Misted into ghosts in the crystal ball
Of a womanly vision
For my future dream
Of return to the lost carousel
Of the doctorate dreams
I’d left for dead
The corpse of a hope
So long on life support
Whose plug I’d pulled ...
Caravansary of souls
Where my tender sprout of youth
Lived after the steam of tears
Misted into ghosts in the crystal ball
Of a womanly vision
For my future dream
Of return to the lost carousel
Of the doctorate dreams
I’d left for dead
The corpse of a hope
So long on life support
Whose plug I’d pulled ...
#college
#despair
#dreams
#hope
#women
153 reads
0 Comments
Styxian
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2022 3:49pm
23rd Oct 2022 3:49pm
Decreation
He walked callous through the meadow
kicking dandelions out of his way
Several whirled around him
silently protesting
Though unable to impede his aggression
Angry and airborne,
the seeds swirled
Their revenge will be in blanketing him
when he soon slumbers
He chose an older, grimacing tree
one with raking arms that taunted him
In contrast to the welcoming green ground
that soothed his eyes,
inviting him, come lay
Calmly, he removed his coat
Laid it, extending the layers
of earth, shade,...
kicking dandelions out of his way
Several whirled around him
silently protesting
Though unable to impede his aggression
Angry and airborne,
the seeds swirled
Their revenge will be in blanketing him
when he soon slumbers
He chose an older, grimacing tree
one with raking arms that taunted him
In contrast to the welcoming green ground
that soothed his eyes,
inviting him, come lay
Calmly, he removed his coat
Laid it, extending the layers
of earth, shade,...
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
602 reads
26 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
26th Mar 2019 2:45am
26th Mar 2019 2:45am
Losing one’s Mind
Losing one’s Mind
A fading darkness behind the eyes
Leaving behind a pillar of lies
Exposing a framework of cries
And a crown of bone
The deep sparks of the mind
Begin to lose their bind
Cutting out the ability to find
A mind to call your own
Great circuits fall quiet for ever
Leaving no more endeavor
To banish the skin of night in the never
And no sight in the light shone
The gears soon turn without guide
Purpose is gone to hide
A blind and rumbling thing to side
With whatever...
A fading darkness behind the eyes
Leaving behind a pillar of lies
Exposing a framework of cries
And a crown of bone
The deep sparks of the mind
Begin to lose their bind
Cutting out the ability to find
A mind to call your own
Great circuits fall quiet for ever
Leaving no more endeavor
To banish the skin of night in the never
And no sight in the light shone
The gears soon turn without guide
Purpose is gone to hide
A blind and rumbling thing to side
With whatever...
#loneliness
#despair
1300 reads
3 Comments
Glaxian
Poem Published
31st Jan 2025 2:11am
31st Jan 2025 2:11am
Hope's fires
The fires burn on the Santa Ana
It was inevitable in the night
Like a stranger in a bandanna
Bringing nature to the fight
There is no justice in the wind
Broken glass and bloody peril
Plans can break and will can bend
Chaos singing out natures carol
Uncertainty brightly riding the wind
Can you feel the future coming down
It was inevitable in the night
Like a stranger in a bandanna
Bringing nature to the fight
There is no justice in the wind
Broken glass and bloody peril
Plans can break and will can bend
Chaos singing out natures carol
Uncertainty brightly riding the wind
Can you feel the future coming down
#anxiety
#despair
#disappointment #fear
#disappointment #fear
29 reads
0 Comments
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
22nd Dec 2018 7:09pm
22nd Dec 2018 7:09pm
Slow Murder of an Eternal State
If hell has a true heart
It must be surrounded by an impenetrable dark,
“Strengthened by the souls of the unbeliever
Lead by the ultimate deceiver,
“Who sits upon a throne within an extradimensional hall
Decorated by fallen heroes and fools on its wall,
“The greatest live a tortured living death
Denied through painful magic their last breathe,
“A nightmarish realm that feed up itself
That tricks one’s mind that it’s in pearl and needs help,
“Creating a mirrored paradise of unimaginable pleasure
Because it want supreme value...
It must be surrounded by an impenetrable dark,
“Strengthened by the souls of the unbeliever
Lead by the ultimate deceiver,
“Who sits upon a throne within an extradimensional hall
Decorated by fallen heroes and fools on its wall,
“The greatest live a tortured living death
Denied through painful magic their last breathe,
“A nightmarish realm that feed up itself
That tricks one’s mind that it’s in pearl and needs help,
“Creating a mirrored paradise of unimaginable pleasure
Because it want supreme value...
#dark
#despair
#nightmares
639 reads
6 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 7:46pm
20th Jan 2025 7:46pm
What Could Have Been
In my black garment,
mourning the lost chances
that slipped through my fingers
like windblown, fine sand.
With tear-stained cheeks,
and aching eyes,
a witness to every shattered hope,
making the world so dull.
There is no moon to cry to,
and no arms to fall into,
from the haunting
of what could have been.
mourning the lost chances
that slipped through my fingers
like windblown, fine sand.
With tear-stained cheeks,
and aching eyes,
a witness to every shattered hope,
making the world so dull.
There is no moon to cry to,
and no arms to fall into,
from the haunting
of what could have been.
#despair
#grief
#loneliness
87 reads
RyanBlackborough
Poem Published
21st Jun 2024 2:32pm
21st Jun 2024 2:32pm
F(r)iend
I know she doesn't love me.
She visits everyone.
When its looking bright.
She'll shade me from the sun.
She is all I've got.
Probably my best friend.
Though she isn't real.
I like to pretend
It's a sense of duty.
Much less out of care.
Always there beside me.
My keeper of despair.
She visits everyone.
When its looking bright.
She'll shade me from the sun.
She is all I've got.
Probably my best friend.
Though she isn't real.
I like to pretend
It's a sense of duty.
Much less out of care.
Always there beside me.
My keeper of despair.
#despair
153 reads
4 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
13th Jan 2020 00:29am
13th Jan 2020 00:29am
No Eye, No Ear
Your ominous, chilly winds cut me to the bare bone.
Shaking like a leaf in the gales,
a poignant reminder that I am of a few
holding on like hell by a single root.
This malady incurable, you’re judgments relentless.
So, I sink wearily into myself.
Shaking like a leaf in the gales,
a poignant reminder that I am of a few
holding on like hell by a single root.
This malady incurable, you’re judgments relentless.
So, I sink wearily into myself.
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#suicide
#MentalHealth
#despair
443 reads
0 Comments
MalcolmG
Poem Published
6th Jan 2025 2:47am
6th Jan 2025 2:47am
Forgotten World
These barren cries whisper plains,
Despair. This silence, artic, yet brightens refrain.
Hushed dreams glisten; they surge, then blooming,
Horizons where shadows dance, fading into softly.
Despair. This silence, artic, yet brightens refrain,
Grainy laughter spins through sands of grains.
Horizons where shadows dance, fading into softly,
Seamless yet prickled, tender echoes still seas.
Grainy laughter spins through sands of grains,
Turquoise dawns flood sepia skies.
Seamless yet prickled, tender echoes still seas, ...
Despair. This silence, artic, yet brightens refrain.
Hushed dreams glisten; they surge, then blooming,
Horizons where shadows dance, fading into softly.
Despair. This silence, artic, yet brightens refrain,
Grainy laughter spins through sands of grains.
Horizons where shadows dance, fading into softly,
Seamless yet prickled, tender echoes still seas.
Grainy laughter spins through sands of grains,
Turquoise dawns flood sepia skies.
Seamless yet prickled, tender echoes still seas, ...
#despair
#hope
#rebirth
67 reads
5 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
28th Jan 2025 4:27am
28th Jan 2025 4:27am
this darkness
You tell me there's light to be seen
if I just step outside
but I must be blind
under the storm cloud in my head
that takes everything beautiful
and leaves me hollow
You tell me the sunshine's waiting
but I can't bear the world outside
where people talk and smile
and live their lives in colour
cause if I go outside
I'll have to pretend I'm not a ghost
if I was any more empty
I'd be as invisible as the pain inside
It's dark in here
can't you see it's dark in here
(it's so fucking dark in here)...
if I just step outside
but I must be blind
under the storm cloud in my head
that takes everything beautiful
and leaves me hollow
You tell me the sunshine's waiting
but I can't bear the world outside
where people talk and smile
and live their lives in colour
cause if I go outside
I'll have to pretend I'm not a ghost
if I was any more empty
I'd be as invisible as the pain inside
It's dark in here
can't you see it's dark in here
(it's so fucking dark in here)...
#depression
#despair
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
97 reads
2 Comments
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