#affliction poems on Hello Poetry

Farah Taskin Oct 2021

love jingled
agony tingled
blue and grey mingled

#affliction

Double King Dec 2020

Reliever

Rage rest, waiting someone to pull the trigger;
Shoot bullets, disturbing the calmness of the water;
Walls remain, few seconds it will break open;
Smooth fist earning wounds, but it'll never be broken.
Collision of the variables relieve someone— emotions regress.

#depression #affliction #hurting

averylia May 2020

Ophelia/The Garden of Eden

Oh, Ophelia,
sweet cherub
face, bathed
in moonlight,
doe eyes filled
                with woe:

You are a figure
of my affliction,
falling softly at
midnight, a
delicate dis-
position, fragile
               as soft snow,

a garden you
invite me to,
opulent trees of
treason, you
are the siren’s
call at dusk,
pulling me away
from the

                garden
                of
                eden.

#love #affliction #ophelia #shakespeare #garden #of #eden #purity #heaven #religion

Flynn Apr 2020

Sway

Referencing wisdom
Chinese / Japanese / Other
you will encounter
a metaphor using trees
to impart knowledge
on confronting affliction

"bamboo that bends", or
"the oak that breaks in a storm..."
comprehendable?
yes, even agreeable
- partially

Openness to change
I can appreciate... but
to destructive change!?
Therein, my inner conflict

To resist violence
and to fall instead of sway.
Stoic refusal
to accept ancient wisdom.

In how to remain
- the teachings of confucius

Lying, pondering
hearing groaning, resisting.
I now realise,
like the oak by my window

- I will fall.

#sway #trees #affliction #growth #pain #trials #philosophy #metaphor #insomnia #sleep

John McCafferty Jan 2020

Shards

Flapping flames fall from above
A reflection of affliction
Kissed by death when time is up

The transference of one

To reimburse the curse
a cycle continues of the young
From which we all grow older
to become shards of the sun

(@PoeticTetra - instagram/twitter)

#flames #affliction #death #transference #curse #cycle #sun

jia Sep 2019

smiles

There are lots that makes me smile,
like dogs and cats or other stuff.
Having it as a list, surely, it'll be in pile,
some I smile only because I have to, some I smile then laugh.

Like good arts and music,
great literary pieces that I enjoy,
or for all one knows, maybe an interesting topic,
who knows, anything can be a joy.

Like when you force yourself to be happy,
it could be goodbyes that should end plain.
Perhaps, pretending to show gaiety or felicity,
that's when we smile in struggle and pain.

Smiles are diverse.
We smile in satisfaction and glee.
We smile in affliction and agony.
Sometimes, its caused by the best feeling, every so often, by the worst.

#smiles #happiness #agony #affliction #joy #felicity