Featured Poets Of Instagram - Page 5

Hold Tightly To Your Smile
- By Ashleigh Rayl
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.
This is an untitled poem from "The Soul" section of Ashleigh's new published poetry book, A Beautiful Difference.

in Hope Poems

You get through the bad days
because you have no other choice.
There is nothing else you can do
but hold tightly to your smile

You get through the bad days
because you have no other choice.
There is nothing else you can do
but hold tightly to your smile
and try to stay positive.
Focus on finding happiness in the little things,
and making small achievable goals
for yourself to feel purposeful.
To constantly remind yourself
that it could be worse
to make yourself feel better.
Giving up is not an option.
Crying all day is not an option.
Losing yourself is not an option.
You have to remember that
it is going to be ok.
It always is eventually.
You got this.

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Trying To Balance Grief
- By Liz Newman
- Published by Family Friend Poems May 2021 with permission of the Author.
One of the biggest things I’m learning about grief is how it demands different things from you every day. Some days, you’re able to get a lot done. You’re able to smile and be fully present with people. Everything feels fully balanced and manageable...steady. But other days, even normal daily tasks feel impossible to balance. And despite your best efforts, you can’t do it all. You try and build your schedule to match the day before, but it wobbles and leans and comes crashing down at your feet.

Grief will demand different things of you every day. Some days will be harder than others, but please don’t be harder on yourself because of it. The harder days need the most kindness, the most support, the most gentleness. The harder days need the most grace. If today is a harder day, I’m praying with you. I’m hurting with you. I’m holding on to hope with you.

in Grief Poems

Grief stacks
Itself up
Up
Up

Grief stacks
Itself up
Up
Up
As you try and balance
Your daily tasks
Your emotions
Your pain
The tower
Wobbles
As you try
To do everything
You normally do
Everything you
Normally can
But right now
You can’t
And it comes
All
The way
Down

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This poem reads the mind of a person affected by grief. "But right now/You can't" has the logic. It depicts the hope that there will be a time with "can."

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Let Love Grow
- By Sabina Laura
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Short Love Poems

I want to live in a world
where nobody is afraid
to fall in love
or admit it

I want to live in a world
where nobody is afraid
to fall in love
or admit it
and let love grow
like wildflowers
in the most unexpected
(but beautiful)
places.

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Very well done. And I would like to live in a place like that too. As a matter of fact, in my own world, I do.

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I Won't Settle For Anything Less Than You
- By Lorelei
- Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Falling in Love Poems

I want it all
The insanity
The good,
The bad,

I want it all
The insanity
The good,
The bad,
Your broken pieces too.
The sadness,
The laughter,
even the darkness in your light.
I want you wildly, madly in love
with all that I am, all that I have been
and everything I will become.
Give me your moon
and I’ll hang the stars
across the sky for you

because darling,
I won’t settle for anything less
than you.
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Love Over Time
- By Gemma Troy
- Published by Family Friend Poems August 2020 with permission of the Author.
in Short Love Poems

In cracked skin
and calloused hands
morning light
and greying hair

In cracked skin
and calloused hands
morning light
and greying hair
in memories
of the first touch
and the taste of lips
I love you here
I loved you there
I love you now
I loved you then
time will never be a friend
but our love will never end
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Holding Onto The Wrong People
- By Kirsten Robinson
- Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.
in True Friend Poems

Why do you
try so hard
to hold on
to people

Why do you
try so hard
to hold on
to people
who so easily
let you go

There are people
who know your
precious valuable incomparable
Worth

They will stay
they will walk
through hellfire
to make sure
you don’t get away

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I Am Free
- By Samantha Camargo
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2022 with permission of the Author.
Memories No Longer Rush Back

in Moving On Poems

Your name is just a name now.
Memories no longer rush back,
pouring through my body,
flooding my mind, drowning my

Your name is just a name now.
Memories no longer rush back,
pouring through my body,
flooding my mind, drowning my
senses, when I hear your name.

My heart no longer wants to
jump out of my chest to escape
the string. And it’s no longer
hard to breathe.

Your name is just a name now.

And I am free.
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It's About The Journey
- By Lauren Bowman
- Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Meaningful Poems

How about sad but hopeful.
Lonely but looking inward.
Resting but planning your next step.

How about sad but hopeful.
Lonely but looking inward.
Resting but planning your next step.

How about fumbling but trying.
Anxious but learning patience.
Questioning but at peace with not having
an answer yet.

How about unsure but trusting.
Scared but overcoming.
Lost but knowing it’s about the journey
in the end.

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Take A Bow
- By S.C. Lourie
- Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Inspirational Poems

Take a bow, lovely one.
Because you’re tired
And still you’re doing it.
You’re feeling empty

Take a bow, lovely one.
Because you’re tired
And still you’re doing it.
You’re feeling empty
And still you’re giving it.
You’re unsure of yourself
And still you’re being it.
You got hit hard
And still you’re healing it.
Funds are low
And still you’re dreaming it.
Life ain’t so easy right now
And still you’re loving it.
The winds are blowing hard
And still you’re walking it.
Yes, take a bow, lovely one.
(You made it to Friday)

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I'm convinced that those close to you are grateful to know you and to have you around. This is a very uplifting and motivating piece. I like it. Thanks again.

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I Am A Survivor
- By Caroline White
- Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Inspirational Poems

I am not everything
that has happened to me.
I am everything I became
while I healed.

I am not everything
that has happened to me.
I am everything I became
while I healed.
Stronger but softer.
Focused but not obsessed.
A teacher but still a student.
I am not broken.
I am beautiful.
I am a survivor.

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It Takes A Certain Courage
- By S.C. Lourie
- Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Courage Poems

It takes a certain courage:

Just to be,
to fight for your happiness

It takes a certain courage:

Just to be,
to fight for your happiness
and sense of calm in this world,
to get out of bed and meet the day,
to choose to be openminded
rather than clinging to your beliefs,
to set boundaries,
to say yes,
to say no,
to try again.

You are made of that kind of courage.
Chin up buttercup and go make some
beautiful moments with your bravery.

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There Will Be Days
- By S.C. Lourie
- Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Meaningful Poems

There will be days
when your heart will break.
And there will be days when
your heart will soar.

There will be days
when your heart will break.
And there will be days when
your heart will soar.
There will be days when
your heart will doubt.
There will be days when
your heart will believe.
There will be days when
your heart fatigues.
There will be days when
your heart pulsates thunder.
You just keep going.
Keep walking.
Because that’s how we find
beautiful places.

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Inspiring. Truthful and well-written. I like it. Good read.

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Your Love Goes With Me
- By Liz Newman
- Published by Family Friend Poems August 2021 with permission of the Author.
in In Memory Poems

Your love
Goes with me
Today and every day.

Your love
Goes with me
Today and every day.

I feel it
When I’m listening
To the songs the trees make
Or the music we listened to
On sunny summer days.

I feel it
When I look at
Old photos of you.
I have your same eyes
And so much
Of the same outlook as you.

I feel it
When your old ring
Clangs against my heart,
Hanging from a chain
That I wear every day
And never take apart.

I feel it
When a familiar scent
Mixes with my memories
Of you,
The cologne on your clothes
And the way the smell
Shocks my senses anew.

I feel it
When I eat your
Favorite food,
Perch dinners
Or Payday candy bars,
All the things you were into.

I feel it everywhere
I feel it in everything.

It trickles into my days
In a million little ways.
Your love will never be lost,
It comforts and persists
And it stays.

Your love gives me strength.
Your love makes me brave.

Your love
Goes with me
Today and every day.
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The Balance
- By M.B.Victoria
- Published by Family Friend Poems March 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Relationship Poems

I give and take,
I give and take,
I give and take.

I give and take,
I give and take,
I give and take.

But I take when
I should be giving,
and I give when
I should be taking.

And that is why
I have loved and lost.
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What I Would Have Done Differently
- By M.B.Victoria
- Published by Family Friend Poems March 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Life Lesson Poems

There would have been
so much I would have
done differently
if only I had known

There would have been
so much I would have
done differently
if only I had known
how beautifully
it would all turn out.

But, you see, if I had
done even just one
thing differently,
it might not have
turned out the way it did.
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First off, I like the poem. I too have pondered that same notion about going back in time and changing things for a better outcome. It's hard to say either way. Things could have been better...

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Finding Hope
- By Sabina Laura
- Published by Family Friend Poems September 2020 with permission of the Author.
Finding Hope In Unexpected Places

in Short Poems

I am learning to find hope
in the smallest and most unexpected places
like the whispers through the forest
and the velvet evening sky

I am learning to find hope
in the smallest and most unexpected places
like the whispers through the forest
and the velvet evening sky
and the way your love is bringing back
all the parts of my soul I thought I had lost.
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This poem speaks to me. I really like it. We spend so much of our time focusing on things that really don't make life better and we miss out on many of the things that do.

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Hearts Are Resilient
- By Liz Newman
- Published by Family Friend Poems December 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Courage Poems

Hearts are delicate
yet incredibly resilient.
They break and break open,
yet they beat

Hearts are delicate
yet incredibly resilient.
They break and break open,
yet they beat
and brave the pain.
They’re filled
to overflowing
only to be poured out
day after day.
And yet, they remain.
They fight. and they remain.
You fight. And you remain.
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Just Tell Me You Don't Love Me
- By Lauren Bowman
- Published by Family Friend Poems December 2020 with permission of the Author.
in Confused about Love Poems

Just tell me you don’t love me;
I can live with that.
I can acknowledge an ending when I see a period
firmly in place,

Just tell me you don’t love me;
I can live with that.
I can acknowledge an ending when I see a period
firmly in place,
but you won’t do that, will you?
No, you’ll let me down easy.
You’ll hold my hand, and look into my eyes,
and use one of those continuing lines,
I want you, but…

Don’t you know that but stands like a door
without a handle?
But looks like fresh cut flowers we pretend
aren’t already dying.
But feels like the false hope you hand me before
you walk away.

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I like this one very much. Holding on to false hope will lead to real hopelessness. It takes a special talent to recognize when it's time to let go, and it takes courage to do it.

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You Are Enough
- By Bethny Ricks
- Published by Family Friend Poems March 2021 with permission of the Author.
Along the way I have learned a tough lesson: even in my imperfection I am still worthy of love, someone’s time, and a consistent feeling of wholeness.
My value is not connected to perfection, strength, or my ability to weather a storm. Which means that even on those days when I struggle to show up or feel ill-equipped, I am still a woman of worth and value

in Inspirational Poems

You are enough
You have always been enough, and
You will forever be
Enough

You are enough
You have always been enough, and
You will forever be
Enough

no matter what you see
how you feel, or the lies you may
believe

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He Asked Me If I Missed Him
- By Alfa Holden
- Published by Family Friend Poems December 2020 with permission of the Author.
in Betrayal Poems

He asked me if
I missed him
and I told him
no. Even though

He asked me if
I missed him
and I told him
no. Even though
my heart called
me a liar,
I could not give
the man who left
and took everything,
any more of me.
Not my feelings,
my memories,
or my regrets.

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Recovery can be the hardest thing we do, but it's always worth it.

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Featured Poets Of Instagram - Page 5

This is an untitled poem from "The Soul" section of Ashleigh's new published poetry book, A Beautiful Difference.