by Charlie Smith |
Categories:
giving, love,
Love neither gives or takes but from itself.
Be not wiled by fantasies of arrogance.
Take no more than is offered by yourself.
Leave nothing trapped in tortured irrelevance.
Seek not a barter for desires that sue your heart.
Worthiness is the only tender that comes due.
Suffer willingly the melody of pain it may impart.
Bleed joyfully from the wounds that will ensue.
As tree branches lift their hopes towards Heaven's door,
hands together reaching higher than alone will seek
heights that love's imagination most beautifully implores
that from a poets words unending ecstasy must speak.
Whatever you desire your life to be,
may loves reflection be all you see
by Carol B. |
Categories:
absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham
The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in unkept hopes and promises
Moss sprouting venom from hurts battled
Like a fish floating in space with no oxygen
I swam in currents without you
The tank occupied with endless dark clouds
Fraught with fear and loneliness
Love now submerged deep in the recess of my mind
Unclear what is sacred what is trash
I prayed you would see the light
That my white knight would return
This battle is fierce and yours to fight
by John Gondolf |
Categories:
loneliness, lost love, sad,
A hollow heart devoid of love
is like a night no stars above,
or like an old abandoned well
whose empty echoes speak of hell.
A lonely heart will gently weep
as raindrops through her veins will seep,
and cascade down a pallid cheek,
and leave a weary spirit weak.
My broken spirit aches with pain
when sun sinks low at end of day,
and darkness douses hopes thereof
as midnight chimes amidst the rain.
These sad forsaken dreams portray
my hollow heart devoid of love.
June 17, 2020
by A.O. Taner |
Categories:
august, beach, beautiful, cool, crush, deep, destiny, devotion, fantasy, feelings, first love, fishing, freedom, funny love, future, girlfriend, hope, i love you, i miss you, journey, joy, judgement, lost love, love, love hurts, meaningful, miracle, ocean, people, places, romance, sea, sensual, simple, spiritual, water, women, world,
Don't rush to wash off the sea salt
drying on your skin;
the hopes it carries from other oceans,
those remain yet to be seen.
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
faith, paradise, prayer, religious,
Unique is the discipline of love
Understanding God's law
Faith holds supreme commander
Sometimes we have to fight
our way through a concrete jungle
stone cold dreams nightmare evaluates
Rocking the cradle unworthy desires
no peace or rest for the wicked deeds
in order to find the answers to hopes prayer
Truth pointing us directions
within our code of moral conduct
which supports us in our voyage
In the walk of life chaos grips hearts consumed with hate
Without faith our souls identity will become dust
Needing hugs from heaven to survive
A Collaborated Poem 19.11.2015
Anne-Lise Andresen, and Liam Mc Daid
(tercets unrymed)
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
flying, journey, love, places, travel,
Fly to me my love
on the wings of hopes and dreams
come and be my passion
a lover's symphony
Be my guiding star light
show me all of nature's best
come and be my pillow
where my weary head can rest
Take my hand and walk with me
on life's ever winding road
keep me safe and steady
hold me in our home
Let's sleep beside the moon tonight
camp inside the corners of my heart
be my one and only
my desire, my love, my start
by Barbara Gorelick |
Categories:
hope, introspection
A wish is hope, all dressed up
A heart that needs to sing...
And I have 3 songs today,
Hopes and wishes, that I bring...
I wish yesterday was today
So I could change some things...
I seem so much wiser now,
A different song I'd sing...
I wish I had the power
To make my fellows see...
That hate wont set the table,
But love is always free
I wish that I could write a poem
That everyone would read...
Something with a message,
To plant a fruitful seed
We all would like to think
That magic might come our way...
And that some Genie just might grant,
Our hopes and wishes for today
by Mark Woods |
Categories:
heartbreak, hope, love,
She sits alone with her distant stare
He visits daily but she is unaware.
No future hopes to speak thereof
Yet still husband, wife, and deep true love.
Love Without Hope Contest
Sponsor Sara Kendrick
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
confusion, love,
That sad day when you said, "It's just not there"
Such sentiments seemed pulled out of the air
For many months we'd loved and lived as one
Sharing dreams under the Florida sun
Our hopes were cast like nets into the sea
Never did I think they'd come up empty
What caused this shift was not for me to know
As 'neath the rays I wallowed far below
Searching for answers, wiping tears from my eyes
I longed to make sense, but reason defied
Until I found the hidden doctor's note
And learned your survival now seemed remote
I fought my way back into your strong arms
To stand again with you and ease the harm
by Francis J Grasso |
Categories:
death, emotions, sad,
willows weeping
white doves wail
wild wind blowing
black clouds sail
broken dreams
torn and tattered
tomorrows hopes now
trashed and shattered
dying love
don't give up
pray to god
and be tough
Written June 13, 2016
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
mother daughter, thanks,
The rain that seemed to wash my hopes away
Left an amazing gift for me to find
Beyond the puddles that remained behind
New signs of life revived one summer day
I had not planted anything at all
'Twas Mom who wanted me to find this prize
Her efforts surely took me by surprise
Three decades passed; her smile I can’t recall
But in the yard where she drew her last breath
A bed of Four O’Clocks awoke one day
It was as if my Mom were there to say
“My love for you survived beyond my death”
*Written November 7, 2018
“Thankful Poetry Contest” hosted by Tania Kitchin
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love,
"Brightest diamonds shine in darkest rooms,
willing hearts bleed out love for me and you"
Whisper close towards a frightened ear
soothe a shaken soul scared tonight
hold onto hopes of flight filled wings
where a painted rose will rise and sing
Carry my crutch just a little bit more
for when the south winds blow again
across flowing strands of love and care
my heart and spirit will be right there
Living moments in locked up dreams
no longer a little blue penguin burrowing
freeing fairy tale fantasy finally come true
glowing in the dark because the shine of you
by Phyllis Babcock |
Categories:
devotion, faith, inspirational, father, father,
All things come from the Father above
Our hopes, our dreams, our love
Our purpose in this life
Our toils with daily strife
We are nothing without Him
Our lives would be insignificant and dim
We need something to believe in
So we can live without sin
All things come from the Father above
He shares our hopes, our dreams , our love
He shows us the glory of His ways
So we can follow all of our days
He leads us down the right path each day
So we will no longer stray
He will not let us stumble and fall
It's simple all we have to do is call
by Charlie Smith |
Categories:
love hurts, sad love,
I've dreamed of things and might have beens
with hopes and love in back lot shadows.
Replaying these cold-heart wrenching scenes
that will bring no dawn to my tomarrows.
And as this play plays out each act,
my role fades from lead to second best.
Mere words no longer cause effect
to cure the faults of love's ill rest.
I pray to God, re-write these lines
that I might toss aside regrets
and bring the peace for which I pine
to a closing scene no one forgets.
I'll take no bows, of that I'm certain
as stage lights dim on this final curtain.
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
12th grade, allusion, death, emotions, feelings, imagery, love,
The lament of a summer breeze is heard
to make the gilded leaves of Autumn sigh.
And after months without a single word,
love lost its wings and can no longer fly.
Shadows form silhouettes in the moonlight,
tethering wishes and hopes to a dream.
And haunted by lost love, she cries at night,
as lonely feelings fuel a silent scream.
She remembers the sweet taste of his kiss
and the way he left her feeling fulfilled.
He swore he'd write daily without remiss,
but those letters stopped the day he got killed.
She never questioned why he'd gone to war
for she knew, freedom was worth dying for.
(Sonnet)
Sept. 1, 2018
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
beautiful, love,
Long before the whisper's
falling down --
upon your shoulders
as with dew's droplets
dangling so delicately
I've heard all about it
resting within your beauty
vision's quest --
speaking through the shimmers
right out in front of me
Slight touch curls to sight
enfurled in mystery
elegance flows --
blinking under seas of blue
filling in the guise of you
Before the tumbles
where fingers adjust height
hopes hinge --
passion's melt is spinning
sated lips just beginning
by curtis johnson |
Categories:
love,
Love is being humble and selfless, caring and kind to all
Love hopes and trusts; is protective but not possessive
Love perseveres, going the distance above and beyond
Love is forgiving and keeps on giving without taking
08062018 Poetry Soup Contest, A four line poem on what is love, Faraz Ajmal, 2P
Each line with a maximum of 14 syllables
by Bill Baker |
Categories:
god, hope, love, rainbow, romantic love,
Your love is like a rainbow that arches through the skies,
It gives my life a purpose and answers to my why’s.
Like God’s promise throughout eternity, it’s your promise just to me.
That with God’s help there’s no limits, and with your love I can be free.
Stick with me my rainbow, and just you wait and see.
I’ll give you your dreams and precious things as our hopes become reality.
by Audrey Haick |
Categories:
analogy, betrayal, hope, love,
So she broke your heart and bled you
left you to drown in the dark waters
of melancholia that has kept you entombed
so long within its frozen grasp
So she broke your heart and bled you
left you lost in the forest of disenchantment…
stripped your soul like the northern winds
that strip bare the sturdy oaks
So she broke your heart and bled you
tossed you to the Ninth level of Hades
where your heart has lain in fragments
where your hopes appear like fallen ashes
So she broke your heart and bled you
never look back to what has been
we’re both needing resurrection
let love stake its claim
~*~
9/25/13
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
dream, hope, passion,
Flowers bloom ~ with love around
Lead me where you go
In your eyes I see our future
True love speaks in tender tones
From passions ~ dreams and hopes
Gentle starlight twinkles on every step we take
May the warm rays of the sun always fall on our path
I give you my love for forevermore
Listen ~ my heart beats a little faster
07.01.2016
A-L Andresen :)
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
betrayal, feelings, love, sad love,
Reality's a stark place
that dominates existence.
And I cannot escape it
no matter how hard I try.
I wanted to believe we'd
be together forever.
But your lies and betrayal
slowly tore my heart apart.
Love's indomitable flame
wasn't meant to be extinguished.
And its demise was painful,
fueling deep depression.
Fate spun a fickle fortune
spiked with ecstasy and pain.
And yet, time has the power
to resurrect dying hopes.
Drifting dreams seldom stray far
tightly tethered to my heart.
And there will come a day when
I'll believe in them again.
(Blank Verse)
5/2/2013
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
break up, conflict, goodbye, history, hurt, relationship, sad,
How do you say goodbye
To someone who has shared
So many days so many hopes
So many nights so many dreams
How do you say goodbye
When the love has dwindled
Explanations all been heard
All the tears been shed
How do you go separate ways
Without looking back
Without easing back into one more try
How do you turn and go
How do you start anew
How do you say goodbye
AP: 3rd place 2020
Posted in March, 2018
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
earth, environment, feelings, imagery, nature, pollution,
Upon tomorrow's arrival,
today fades into yesterday.
And apathy spurs denial
as endangered animals die.
Wherever concrete cities rise
collateral damage occurs.
And as jets traverse the skies,
wild birds are annihilated.
We dedicate our existence
to a utopia of steel.
And survive in asphalt jungles,
shadowed by lofty achievements.
Reality is a mirage
projected upon collapsing hopes.
And yet, safe in our cubicles,
we love our plastic paradise.
Our planet's irrevocably
changing into a barren sphere.
And a legacy of fools; greed
disguises profit as progress.
5/31/2015
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
introspection
slinking through the woods
finding camaraderie only from wolves
heartless, relentless, self-absorbed
predator of the vulnerable
devouring her soul
crushing her hopes
devastating dreams
finding satisfaction when she succumbs
the fox knows nothing of love
seeks but conquest
revels in despair of victims
takes her carcass down to the river
washes purity from her tormented soul
she saw feigned promise in his eyes
the fox, the wolf, the demon
who devastates
devours
crushes
while grinning with satisfaction
by Meenakshi Raina |
Categories:
betrayal, break up, love, time,
no one knows nothing
when wrapped with
smooth silver silence
some secrets sleep.
helpless heart hopes
love lives long
but beneath betrayal
deep desires die.
time twists tides
some sail safe
some seize sand
while wailing waiting.
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May 9, 2016