#overcoming poems on Hello Poetry

AKM Sep 2017

Lack of rest,
I’m not impressed,
I’m stressed, depressed.
After a blood test,
With a friend, I lost a bet,
Oh me? I’m depressed.

Ditched for no reason,
This is pure treason,
I’m sitting in the laps of depression.
It’s time I learn a lesson,
That luck doesn't always favor me,
I need to move forward, make a progression.

We all have ups and downs,
In the short span our hearts beats.
Life is not full of perfection,
We all go through psychotic depression.

It’s high time we chill,
And fill our life with thrills.

It’s time we reverse ‘stressed’
Because spelled backwards,
It’s something we all love- desserts.

Need help? Read and cheer up!

#overcoming #depression

Ronald J Chapman Aug 2017

Long Path

I look to my destiny every day,
A future discovered on a cold June morning,
An eternity ago.

Searching for ways,
To move forward on the path fate has laid before me.

But every time I begin my journey,
Something blocks my way.

I'm afraid fate has cursed me with a longer path,
Then the days I have left to walk.

A vast ocean and years block my way home.

Please love, help me find a way to reach my long journey's end,

Where she is patiently waiting for me,
Holding her arms open wide,
Crying please come home to me, I love you; I love you.

Copyright © 2017 Ronald J Chapman All Rights Reserved.

Ailee - Fate (Eng Lyrics)
https://youtu.be/FweM0yoj_Us

#love #absence #apart #destiny #overcoming

Alienpoet Jul 2017

Who fired the first bullet?

Who fired the first bullet?
Who drew the first knife?
Who took the first life?
Who verbally assaulted the first person
Who's fear did worsen
into fight rather than flight
in the dark night
Of the human soul
How do we address the bloodshed and killing
What if we were willing
To let go of the bloodshed show
We know what is like to know
What is like to live in tribes
But if worked together love, unity and hope would arrive.

#who #fired #bullet #love #overcoming #fear #hope #addressing #bloodshed

Persephone Springs Jul 2017

The Day He Tried

Morn after morn, He awoke alone
And prayed for her return
Until the truth made itself known
That to have her heart, He'd have to learn

To gather up all of his strength
And fly away from here
To let love carry him any length
And not be driven by fear

If I stayed the same and did not move,
By the world I'd be left behind
I'd be static in my opinions and views
And be cast from others' minds

So I must evolve in my character
And the things I do and don't believe
Not so much to please another,
But in order to shape my higher self, and make that higher self, me

With this He made a promise, for today, and not tomorrow
To not be frightened by how the wind blew
To not be kept back by regret and sorrow

And so to his dreams, He **flew

#overcoming #fear #courage #flying #trying #love #sacrifice #risk #trust #confidence

loggi Jul 2017

Height of the Ground

Do you ever
Count all the steps
That you walk in a day?

Wonder if they add up
To the height of mountains
Or the depths
Of the deepest seas?

Yet you hold yourself
Back from a challenge
When it stands
All in front of you.
And say it's just a dream.

Nowhere you walk
Is easy.
All people talk
And glare
And have their opinions.
No where is safe
With an edge
So near
That one fault
And you drop.

Scaling peaks,
Diving where it's deep,
Or just living is not easy.
But then again
You walk with a friend
And there goes the challenge.

#friendship #mountains #challenges #seas #ideas #encouragement #courage #love #safety #overcoming

Paul Jones Jun 2017

Dyad - 48 -

They are the masters, the thousand failed ways,
knowing what is best, knowing what is not.

01:15 - 10/06/17
State of mind: optimistic; complex.

Thoughts: from feeling - that making mistakes are an important part of learning. They should be supported and examined. Great things have unfolded from the accidental.

Knowing a thousand ways that don't work is knowing why the one that does, is best.

Questions: how can failure be experienced in a way that encourages persistence?

#dyad #overcoming #failure

Anna-Marie Rose Jun 2017

Struggling to be

Broken apart
Year after year
Struggling to cope
Fear of the tears
Hiding my emotions
Lost in this mind

Time goes by
Flying
So fast
Never do we realize
Its now become the past

Deeper and deeper
My heart does now sink
Torn down
Piece after piece

Memories gone
Never to reappear
Damaged goods
Tossed
And forgotten

Until you realize
The fear is only
In your brain
Maybe then you can
Decide
Its okay to breathe
Again

Go ahead
Its worth a shot
Believe that
Your worth it

Take those emotions and feel them to the max.

Remember
Nothing last forever
If you believe it
Make an effort

Before long
becomes
Like a second nature

Struggling to cope

#struggling #overcoming

Ines Rose May 2017

Making Mistakes

Blood on the ground
I need to rebound

Blood I remember
Frozen in December

Blood on the street
Don't let this repeat

Blood on my knee
I miss the old me

Blood has gone dry
There's no need to cry

Blood has turned blue
Reborn, I'm brand new

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Making Mistakes by Ines Rose is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A comparison between scrapes and mistakes (made in life)

#mistake #blood #hurt #life #recovery #triumph #overcoming #foolishness

Cedric May 2017

"Angel's Glow"

I flee in fear as the enemy grows near,
I stumbled as a bullet passes my ear.
I stand, I turn running away with a tear,
I fall down as if I was hit with a spear.

I took on this war a long time ago,
With myself I had hoped that I could grow.
I lay down beginning to rot away,
The hours passed as I begin to fade.

I wake up and I see these wounds of mine,
Glowing as if I was filled with such life.
Slowly my wounds begin to heal and fade,
And such I begin to fight another day.

Never did I knew that that day drew near,
As I remember those days fleeing in fear.
Now I stand and fight my demonic night,
And I shall die with my tears shining bright.

I lay in this self-made grave from a self-made war,
Yet again my heart glows as if being revived.
I faced myself and gave myself a scar.
Yet it was healed by an angel from afar.

Inspiration from a post I saw about the phenomenon of the "Angel's Glow" during the American Civil War. I have applied it to my battle with myself.

#overcoming #selfhatred #fear #myself

Megan May 2017

INTJ female

I found out recently that I am different
Hopelessly different from people I meet

All my life I've been a misfit
Unable to properly please

Pleasing to some, my knowledge is infinite
Uneasy to some my gaze to meet

How hopelessly lonely this life is, isn't it?
An INTJ female overcoming constant defeats

#intj #hopeless #lonely #personality #overcoming