Featured Poets Of Instagram - Page 7

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 Need Your Support
- By Raquel Franco
- Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.
I’ve had many (maybe too many) times where I chose the poison. Maybe it was a guy, a drink, my depression, food... and the people around me, most of them just told me what I should or shouldn’t be doing when all I needed was support. If you know someone struggling, hold them, love them, tell them they are strong. Support them, believe in them and trust that it will pass. Hold them along the journey.

in Addiction Poems

This is my drowning,
my teeth sinking
into sour apples
and I’m not hiding

This is my drowning,
my teeth sinking
into sour apples
and I’m not hiding

but I don’t need you
to tell me to stop picking
poison fruit. I need you
to tell me you know I’m strong,

to offer your arms as tender
until I discover on my own
that I no longer crave
the bite.
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Your Heart Will Mend
- By Raquel Franco
- Published by Family Friend Poems December 2020 with permission of the Author.
Have faith in your heart. I promise it will mend.

in Hope Poems

Of this I am certain:
your heart is a tender
wound that will always heal,
wears grace like a grown,

Of this I am certain:
your heart is a tender
wound that will always heal,
wears grace like a grown,
finds warmth even when
it has frozen over
like a lake, grows roots
after crawling into cold
coffins. There is no break
your heart can’t come back
from.
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Trust The Journey
- By Marc And Angel Chernoff
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2022 with permission of the Author.
in Change Poems

Dozens of times
throughout your life,
you’ll outgrow what
you thought you

Dozens of times
throughout your life,
you’ll outgrow what
you thought you
couldn’t live without,
and fall in love with
what you didn’t even
know you wanted.
Life will lead you on
hard yet necessary
paths you’d never
travel by choice.
Don’t be afraid.
Have faith.
Trust the journey.

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Your Brilliance And Grace
- By Stephanie Bennett-Henry
- Published by Family Friend Poems March 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Short Poems

Beautiful Girl,
you don’t even realize
that some people
look at your madness

Beautiful Girl,
you don’t even realize
that some people
look at your madness
and see nothing but
brilliance and grace.

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You Already Were
- By Kirsten Robinson
- Published by Family Friend Poems September 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Inspirational Poems

You were beautiful
before they said, you are beautiful

You were smart

You were beautiful
before they said, you are beautiful

You were smart
before they admired your smarts

You were funny
before they laughed at your jokes

You were loved
before they spoke those three words

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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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Give Yourself The Gift Of Silence
- By M.B.Victoria
- Published by Family Friend Poems December 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Poems about Life Struggles

Take the time you need
to crawl in a space
of silence.

Take the time you need
to crawl in a space
of silence.

You don’t owe anyone
any story, or
any explanation.

You owe it to
yourself to work on
your healing.
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Exhale Anxiety
- By Raquel Franco
- Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.
Take a deep breath and exhale all that anxiety. I wrote the poem I needed to hear. My anxiety is still high. I’m going to write my way out. I hope this helps someone else dealing with it. Sending you peace and calm.

Embracing Calmness: A Poem For Anxiety Relief And Serenity

in Courage Poems

I send anxiety
a cease and desist letter.
I close her mouth.
Unbind her gnawing disquiet,

I send anxiety
a cease and desist letter.
I close her mouth.
Unbind her gnawing disquiet,
slow my train track heart.
I manifest settle,
a steady river in my veins.
I proclaim calm,
a relentless hymn on my tongue.
I end the riot in my chest
and exhale.
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Give Me That Peace
- By Lauren Bowman
- Published by Family Friend Poems September 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Meaningful Poems

I don’t need to be the sun;
the center of it all.
Always present.
Always burning.

I don’t need to be the sun;
the center of it all.
Always present.
Always burning.

I mean, have you seen
how beautifully the fireflies dance
on warm summer nights?

Give me that peace.
That light.
That choice.
The ability to surround myself in darkness,
or to subtly, yet brilliantly
glow.
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Two Hundred Thirty-Three
- By Tanya Markul
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.
From Tanya Markul's second poetry collection, The She Book v.2

Stop Trying To Fit Into The World

in Short Poems

When you stop trying
to fit into a world
that you don’t belong to anymore,
you grow

When you stop trying
to fit into a world
that you don’t belong to anymore,
you grow
and automatically start a new one
but with relaxed shoulders,
more laughter,
and way more magic.

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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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Crying
- By Alexandra Michelle
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2022 with permission of the Author.
The Beauty of Crying. Poem of Emotional Cleansing: How breaking down and crying can bring renewal. Poem of embracing emotional release

Poem Of Finding Clarity Through Tears

in Crying Poems

collapse to release,
release to surrender.

surrender to let go,

collapse to release,
release to surrender.

surrender to let go,
let go to break down.

break down to fell,
feel deeply to cleanse.

cleanse to be free,
be free to just cry.

crying is cleansing.

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When You Are Willing To Let Go
- By M.B.Victoria
- Published by Family Friend Poems March 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Life Lesson Poems

When you are willing
to let go of
what you are used to
and what you are

When you are willing
to let go of
what you are used to
and what you are
comfortable with,

you will be given
exactly what you need
to get to where
you truly want to be.
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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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Read It Again
- By Alexandra Michelle
- Published by Family Friend Poems January 2022 with permission of the Author.
Reverse poem.

Backwards Poem

in Meaningful Poems

I hate people who’ve hurt me
so you’ll never hear me say
I must love them harder.
I know that

I hate people who’ve hurt me
so you’ll never hear me say
I must love them harder.
I know that
people are cruel
and that
isolating myself will make me happy
I refuse to believe that
people do love me.
I’m ashamed of loving so deeply.
No longer can I say
I deserve abundant love.

now read that again,
start from the bottom.

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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's Always Hope
- By Vic Lejon
- Published by Family Friend Poems June 2021 with permission of the Author.
in Hope Poems

baby, during the nights when the midnight sky
falls heavily onto your bones and wraps you
in its melancholic embrace

baby, during the nights when the midnight sky
falls heavily onto your bones and wraps you
in its melancholic embrace

keep a light alive inside of you
I know how dark the darkness can get
how tempting it can be

but please remember
you can be your own guiding light
you have the ability to shine despite it all
hope is always with you

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Your Bravery
- By Harpreet M. Dayal
- Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.
You Have Come So Far

in Courage Poems

You have come so far,
trekked forward
shedding layers of
everything that

You have come so far,
trekked forward
shedding layers of
everything that
held you back.
Remember,
no one can ever
take your journey,
your bravery
away from you.
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Featured Poets Of Instagram - Page 7

Have faith in your heart. I promise it will mend.

Take a deep breath and exhale all that anxiety. I wrote the poem I needed to hear. My anxiety is still high. I’m going to write my way out. I hope this helps someone else dealing with it. Sending you peace and calm.

From Tanya Markul's second poetry collection, The She Book v.2

The Beauty of Crying. Poem of Emotional Cleansing: How breaking down and crying can bring renewal. Poem of embracing emotional release

Reverse poem.