#effort poems on Hello Poetry

Mystic Ink Plus Sep 2018

Appreciate
The reflection
Looking at the mirror

If you are
Not comfortable with
Your own shade
Who else will?

You know how strong
Your soul is
Remember the time spent
Building up
You know yourself
Like, no other has

I acknowledge
You are more than
So many somebody else

Genre: Inspirational
Theme: You are enough

#nepal #acknowledge #effort #inspire #buildup #reflection

Pyrrha Aug 2018

Wasted effort

If I act as if the world is ending tomorrow it may as well end today
A stress filled day prepares me for a stress filled future
I will be my own undoing as I continue to pull my own strings
And cut the cords between working hard and working well
As they mold together and I no longer know the difference
I forget that tomorrow is not today as both become one and the same

#effort #work #future #today #tomorrow

deadwood Aug 2018

Almost our victory

It was there at last,
Crowds chanting fast,
Rows of cheers,
Echoed by peers,
On a winning show meant for victory.

It was there at last,
All the toil of the past,
All the bruises with the cast,
All the people I've trust,
Waiting for the call of our hard-earned victory.

Once, at last,
The announcement has passed,
And our faces aghast,
By the fate of our cast;
Silent in news of almost our victory.

We trained so hard. We practiced on rest days. We performed our very best, and yet we fail the contest of our labored victory.

#waste #effort #defeat #loss #disappointed

Joshua Michael Jul 2018

I loved you anyway

She is a trail of destruction
Corruption, a ****** up malfunction
A love full of dysfunction
Playing with your emotions
You've been chosen
Chosen to be broken
But still you sit hoping
You sit choking
Falling while knowing
Asking where is this going
You're hers to play
She won't ever stay
Just leaves you lost
Astray
But at least you can say
"I loved you anyway"
...

#love #hurt #used #lost #hope #hopelessness #sad #effort

Nylee Jul 2018

trust the lie

What we really feel
we'll never tell
what happened
no one remembered
dance around the words
cut tongues with the swords
but we'll not say
we will always lie like that

We lie because we believe
we'll be saved in the end
who knows in truth
maybe we will be the first ones to die

it is for the best
we keep lies within the sea of lies
and when the time comes
all the lies will be pulled together
or maybe more the worse

every effort another lie
now no one is shy
the times will tell why
no one is surprised
truly now the trust has died.

#lie #nyee #died #tell #words #sword #trust #happened #effort #truth

NURUL AMALIA Jul 2018

new color

a pile of hope mingling with me
I've exceeded one dream
let me paint another dream
to feel the color
I want them to feel it too
happy is waiting in its zone
sweat effort certainly exist
everything is not as easy as we wink

#dreams #hope #happy #effort #everything #color #feel #life

Bexis Jul 2018

Bonded

No one tells you what it will be like.
This is something you learn on your own.
Trial, error, trial, error.
Until you think you've found the one.

Movies, TV, books.
They don't tell you how hard it is.
It's not a magical prince or princess coming and sweeping you away.
They lived happily ever after.

What they don't tell you is how hard you have to work to keep things going.
It is always worth it.
No expectations, no standards.
Just two people trying to make it in life together.

You have to try everyday if you want it.
You can't be lazy about it.
If you can't imagine this person not in your life, work to show it.

I'm still working and learning myself.
I try everyday and if I get lazy, she knows it.
She is worth every amount of effort and time.
I make myself better for me and for her.

We are bonded for life.
The strongest bond you can imagine.
We will always be there for each other.

#love #change #relationship #effort #best #friend #worth #bond

Jonathan Nunez Jun 2018

The Box

I am in a box.
A box that I am trapped in.
The warm sun does not enter.
I am isolated inside this cold, dark, lonely box.

The weather outside is fine,
With the clouds parting with each other.
The warmth of the sun cannot reach my darkened heart.

The outside is full of people
Who are blissfully unware of my pain.
They don’t know or care that I am trapped inside.

The pain from this loneliness is slowly killing me.
I know I have got to break free,
But I have abandoned all hope.

I reach out for help,
But the bitterness in my soul from being trapped
Repels them away from me.

Until one man offers to help.
Out of bitterness, I demand he leave me.
I have given up on my dream to be free.
I doubt he can help anyway.

To my surprise, he comes back
And offers to help me again.
I tell him that it is impossible
As he struggles to break me free.

Bit by bit he makes little progress.
For the first time in ages,
I feel a small glimmer of hope.
I start to make an effort to break out.

After some time, I finally burst out.
I am finally free.
I thank the man with tears in my eyes.
He rejects the thanks,
Saying that most of the effort came from me.

“I only got you started,” he says
“You freed yourself.”

Please let me know what you think of this poem. The idea came to me when I was trying to help a certain person.

#hope #hopelessness #help #uplifting #kindness #effort