Best Hopeless Poems

It seeps into your bones this silent sadness
Spreading like a caustic cancerous liquid
Black and oozing slithery fingers into spaces
Once open petals to joy and light ... and hope
Like the nap of a velvet pillow 
Stroked with the palm against the grain
Changing smiles to tears and...

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French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died bankrupt soon after making the sale

Louis XIV bought the stone, 1668
A gift to his mistress, Louis had it cut heart-shape
For...

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Too long I limped along a lonely road, born into this Sahara desert of a life, 
parched and hungry, face weathered and gaunt.
A deaf, dumb, and blind man, drawn and quartered by her knife,    
back tarred and feathered by a vulture's taunt....

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meandering
along the hinterland
relentlessly I search 
for innocent love
in the remoteness
of unspoilt territory…
a hopeless romantic
making inroads into
inaccessibility

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Don’t touch me.
I’m quiet, and tall
And out of reach.

I am weak, and worried
And out of sound.

I am nothing,
But the fear in falling;

Wondering why I’m not touched...

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I’m left perplexed. How vexing, how complex…
the plight of a simple man, (one’s ruin is another’s choosing) is moving and  doing the least that he can, no oil changes no wedding band.
All this just to exist, just to be standing, still living, surviving this...

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Tell me why doe’s the wind blow,
When it seems that almost anything can over power this boat,
The waves rise slowly and surely a storm is on its way,
A day of innocence equating beauty,
For tomorrow may fall,
And today is already gone,
I've decided that tonight is the...

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Helpless Feelings of Matthew

Above the black clouds of Matthew,
Angels are singing heavenly melodies,
It is golden there, and winds do not dare
To disturb such tranquility.

They are loving those into their arms,
One by one from this thing unexplained,
Only that it stops the race’s arrogance,
What mattered money or...

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Welcome back to Hopeless.
My god we've missed you so!
Someone you once cared about 
found you awhile ago-
walking the get-home station
and talking in your dreams.
You took a wrong road somewhere ,child.
Missed us too much it seems.
You stayed afloat quite well this time.
You really had us going.
But...

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Hopeless, but devoted,
Hopeless, but in love,
Hopeless, untill the day i shout enough.
Hopeless, but i care,
Hopeless, it seems you're never there.
Hopeless, i won't leave,
Hopeless, love me please.
Hopeless, you're my all,
Hopeless, can't you hear my call,
Hopeless, everytime you let me fall.
Hopeless, when you lie,
Hopeless, can't you see...

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This is my drug
Rushing into me
Leaving me emotionless
...Just as I wanted

Tears drop
But I feel no pain
Moments pass
I start to numb
...It's exactly as I wanted

This is my drink
At the end of the day
I drink to forget
But I still remember...
I can't forget

I'm beat
Emotionally, I'm drained
I tell myself...

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She has faced the ghosts from her past.
Traveled beyond the razor's edge.
She is haunted by shame's overcast.

Once engulfed in misery's darkness.
Blame it on insecurity.
Storms of emotion, she tries to repress.

She hides her tears in the rain.
Angry cries are muffled by thunder.
The wind blows away her...

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He is so angry; school is the least of his worries.
Sad are his days; he is nine.
Grandma wants to kick them out; step grandpa hates them
aunt hates them
everyone hates them
they have lived in and out of shelters.
been kicked out - he and his three year...

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I am the tundra barren cold and numb
A frozen wasteland where no light can reach
Between these poles, my insatiate self-succumbs.

In icy silence where no whimpers humb
My thoughts like glaciers grind, erode, and breach
I am the tundra, barren, cold, and numb.

The Amazon within once vital thrumb
Of...

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“A wound gets worse when it’s treated with neglect.” – Stevie Nicks

My heart aches,
like the sun aches for the moon,
but stalling became my shackle, 
knowing an evolution was never
on the horizon;
wandering stark habitats—
paradoxically, a devoted outcast
tangled in neglect;
I lay isolated soothing my soul,
mending the wounds...

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