#judgment poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts Nov 9

With the passing of the years
The good disappears
Take inventory,
What's left for me?
Only nightmares and fears
Lies for the heart, mind and ears
Wasted light-years
A husk of a man appears
Drained from fighting through iron bars and chains with nothing but tears
The blind leading the blind
While the blind steers
Grinding through all the gears
With the numbing effect of false help from **** and beers
A deluge of judgment from peers
The worst kind of souvenirs
And yet still my heart peers
Looking for new frontiers
Maybe after the glue adheres
From past repairs
But I'm racing an end that nears

©2024

#mirrors #good #nightmares #fears #heart #years #tears #blind #fair #judgment

Jeremy Betts Oct 29

~•§•~ Stones and Glass Houses ~•§•~

No one will be there
To witness me leaping
But they'll line up in droves
To judge me and my chosen ending

©2024

#judgment #harsh #choice #life #death

Jeremy Betts Oct 9

~•§•~ Memories of Your Crafted Lies ~•§•~

Thoughts berate with little truth
While memories choose when to lie
Often words spoken change nothin'
Though time and time again they try
Feel free to take your unspoken to the grave
What is spun by the victor is sung forever
A good liar proclamation should have been taken as a warning
But judgment sees through even the best of pretender

©2024

#truth #memories #lies #history #forever #lier #proud #claims #judgment #pretender

Jeremy Betts Jun 13

~•§•~ Finding a Middle ~•§•~

You only judge;
Or misjudge, the minimal effort you saw while my mind was gagged and bound
The many breakdowns you were a part of where no fix could be found
And the deluged of tears you hardly stuck around long enough to see hit the ground

You never asked;
About the profound effort of simply starting a day on the day priors rebound
About the countless cries that tried to break through the red tape but never found sound
Or about the tears I was told weren't allowed to form with other people around

Leaving me to question;
Can a life be built on the middle ground?
I guess the more important question is,
Do you desire to turn this thing around?
Is there any interest,
What-so-ever,
In seeing if a middle can even be found?
I'd appreciate your response but don't expect to see one come around

Fool heartedly yours,

The Crying Clown

©2024

#judgment #effort #mindful #breakdown #repair #tears #profound #found #important #interest

Francis Oct 2023

Water Your Own Grass

Someone told me,
To water my own grass,
But what they neglected to mention,
Is that my grass is crass.

This is due to my unfortunate past,
Every minute spent kissing ***,
To be walked on and trampled by,
Boots and heels of brass.

So no, I will most certainly not,
Water my own grass,
The thoughts and evaluations,
Of the judgment I pass,
Is necessary and voluntary,
In a sea of largemouth bass.

Another poem about judgment of character since I’m always in defense.

#judgment #standards #morals #selfworth #selfrespect #skepticism #cynicism #people #psychology #humanity

By Hemingway's Beard Jul 2023

june's birds

"horrible bird"
she called it
telling of how
she had watched
a crow pluck
and pry at
its weakened prey
while perched upon
the bird bath
outside her window
at the garden's edge
despite this sternest
of lessons
nature at its most fickle
she still sits
in her comfy chair
looking out
over a bank of flowers
buoyant in bloom
enjoying the sight
of wagtail
bunting and finch
alighting on the stone plinth
pompous and preening
refreshing themselves
admiring the plumage
of their reflection
before returning once more
to wing and wind

#nature #life #survival #acceptance #contradiction #judgment #perseverance #persistence #continue #birds

Heidi Franke Apr 2023

Don't Relent

Start with self.
The others can wait.

Thoughts are just passing clouds for which to meditate.
Observe the world as the observer, not the taker or receiver.

Judges are for benches. Do not sit alone.
Stand and walk into the songs of birds.
Free within your self called home.

#relent #judge #judged #judgment #bird #song #walk #stand #observe #meditate

The Last Honest Fellowful Tzav Oct 2022

Angels

You discriminated against me my whole life.
Good luck being discriminated against in Hell forever.

#oppression #abuse #abusers #judgment #******

Zack Ripley Sep 2022

Show you the way

I know. It can be scary to feel.
You either feel too much or nothing at all.
Or even worse, you feel you've hit the bottom
so many times you stop being afraid of the fall. Maybe you're already there,
and you decide to take a look around.
You start to feel safe.
Because you fear you'll be judged
if you are ever found.
Judged for falling when people thought
they were picking you up.
Judged for staying at the bottom just because you were "stuck in a rut."
And these fears are valid.
These fears may come true.
But these judgements will come
from people who love you.
I know it might not be clear
what I'm trying to say, so here it is:
it's okay to be afraid.
But if no one knows there's a problem,
they'll never be able to help show you the way.

#fear #judgment #poetry #problem #itsokay

My Dear Poet Jan 2022

The Origami of Change

I create a giraffe
from a paper craft
green was its colour
“Nice dinosaur”, they said
hmmm…
should’ve chosen red
or tan tinted paper

So I flip in half,
squash fold to a calf
It’s simply done with ease
“Nice baboon”, they said
hmmm…
I change again instead
to an island and palm trees

with mountain and valley folds
we unfold what creation holds
and recreate a world from disaster
we make a judgment fold
from the view they hold
hmmm…
if only change is as simple as folding paper

Origami - a Japanese word meaning 'folding paper'.
The two most important folds and the simplest are the valley fold and the mountain fold. They form the foundation of all origami models.

There is also a Judgement fold where an exact location point does not exist, and so you locate the fold by eye alone

#change #creation #judgment #creativity #origami #life #decisions