Self Reflection Poems
#SelfReflection
Poems about self reflection, where we contemplate our own personality and behaviour. Self aware poems engaging in introspection and meditation.
PeachWineAndCats
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:20pm
Yesterday 10:20pm
Old Heart
I have no words.
Yet they still flow through gritted teeth.
They hold meaning to those who never felt free to be.
I have no emotions.
Yet I feel restless when I smoke my weed.
My tears only show when I'm not drowning under the sea.
I have no walls.
Yet I see crumbling bricks of meat.
They're part of my heart and they beat as if they're still part of me.
I have no love.
Yet my love letters are tiny and discreet.
If I blink I miss them and ignore my one and only plea.
To love me, as I have loved those who didn't...
Yet they still flow through gritted teeth.
They hold meaning to those who never felt free to be.
I have no emotions.
Yet I feel restless when I smoke my weed.
My tears only show when I'm not drowning under the sea.
I have no walls.
Yet I see crumbling bricks of meat.
They're part of my heart and they beat as if they're still part of me.
I have no love.
Yet my love letters are tiny and discreet.
If I blink I miss them and ignore my one and only plea.
To love me, as I have loved those who didn't...
#depression
#SelfReflection
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:00pm
Yesterday 5:00pm
Verbal Exposures
I write pictures with my words
Like paint to canvas
One moment inspired
The next a feeling of a dead cliche
Yet it is only when I am noticed
That I even hear what it is I say
I put my heart on broken display
In the script of poetics and vain word play
Bleeding beauty from madness
In vulnerabilities flay
I develop dialogues with self
In the dark room of my thoughts
Every word I speak
The utterances of verbal snapshots
The page is a place where even pain is beautiful
As we tend to the garden
...
Like paint to canvas
One moment inspired
The next a feeling of a dead cliche
Yet it is only when I am noticed
That I even hear what it is I say
I put my heart on broken display
In the script of poetics and vain word play
Bleeding beauty from madness
In vulnerabilities flay
I develop dialogues with self
In the dark room of my thoughts
Every word I speak
The utterances of verbal snapshots
The page is a place where even pain is beautiful
As we tend to the garden
...
#LifeAsAWriter
#myself
#WritingPoetry
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
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She_Cares
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:04pm
Yesterday 1:04pm
Mirror Mirror
I see you
Put your hand to mine
Pick your head up
Look at me
Your eyes are red
Whether it's the drugs
Drinking
Or the mask you wear
Look at me
It's okay to cry
It's okay to not be alright
You don't need to numb anything
Feel it
Feel why this isn't what you want
Feel why this doesn't feel alright
Feel the change it's not bringing you
Are you tired?
Yes I know
I'm here
Let's rest for a bit
May I put your phone on the table?
Perfect
Come here
Put your hand to mine ...
Put your hand to mine
Pick your head up
Look at me
Your eyes are red
Whether it's the drugs
Drinking
Or the mask you wear
Look at me
It's okay to cry
It's okay to not be alright
You don't need to numb anything
Feel it
Feel why this isn't what you want
Feel why this doesn't feel alright
Feel the change it's not bringing you
Are you tired?
Yes I know
I'm here
Let's rest for a bit
May I put your phone on the table?
Perfect
Come here
Put your hand to mine ...
#LifeChangingMoment
#SelfReflection
#meditation
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfWorth
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 1:37pm
29th Jul 2021 1:37pm
Blind Beholder
Call me gifted in expression
Yet without change
When words lose their meaning
And confessions are far from noble
Getting back up again
After I've made a liar of myself
In hopes it'll be the last time
Self-control versus chemical reactions
Speaking of freedom
Where does the bondage lie?
No chains to externalize
Just the entrapment of me
Try to quantify and compartmentalize
Ethereal idealization
I want to believe that there is more
But I'm afraid of vows
When I'm better said than lived
When...
Yet without change
When words lose their meaning
And confessions are far from noble
Getting back up again
After I've made a liar of myself
In hopes it'll be the last time
Self-control versus chemical reactions
Speaking of freedom
Where does the bondage lie?
No chains to externalize
Just the entrapment of me
Try to quantify and compartmentalize
Ethereal idealization
I want to believe that there is more
But I'm afraid of vows
When I'm better said than lived
When...
#lust
#confessional
#addiction
#SelfReflection
#despair
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buddhakitty
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 5:39am
29th Jul 2021 5:39am
the uncarved block
stop spending so
much time and energy
searching for meaning,
answers and purpose
let that which
comes to you
come to you
...and if it doesn't
come to you
then you never
needed it in
the first place
much time and energy
searching for meaning,
answers and purpose
let that which
comes to you
come to you
...and if it doesn't
come to you
then you never
needed it in
the first place
#LGBT
#SelfReflection
#MovingOn
#SelfDiscovery
#wisdom
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 5:10am
29th Jul 2021 5:10am
Pride Paraphernalia
call me a scapegoat for poor life decisions
so nothing is your fault
and I'll take the blame for your sake
cause God forbid you ever have to face yourself
at the end of it all, you'll make an excuse out of me
as you make a mess of yourself
we'll make an example of each-other
exploit the flaw, pointing the finger
loaded with accusations, let's call it a draw
hurt on the other side of instigated animosity
I'm still learning to recognize flesh is not my enemy
going to war with strangers
is it any easier to take a life...
so nothing is your fault
and I'll take the blame for your sake
cause God forbid you ever have to face yourself
at the end of it all, you'll make an excuse out of me
as you make a mess of yourself
we'll make an example of each-other
exploit the flaw, pointing the finger
loaded with accusations, let's call it a draw
hurt on the other side of instigated animosity
I'm still learning to recognize flesh is not my enemy
going to war with strangers
is it any easier to take a life...
#identity
#bullying
#frustration
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
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Blackwolf
Poem Published
28th Jul 2021 3:04am
28th Jul 2021 3:04am
Stipulate To Stimulate
Some With Mind Mentate , Some Illustrate ,
Some Wait , Some Back Date , Some Contemplate ,
Debate A Dictate , Open A Flood Gate ,
Agitate And Aggravate , Translate A Primate ,
Educate And Titillate , Operate To Tempt Fate ,
Obfuscate , Obliterate , Perpetrate A Postulate ,
Speak Sentences That Just Tesselate ,
Exaggerate To Communicate , Hesitate To Inculcate ,
Damn , Just Don't Dis My Dose Rate !
Some Wait , Some Back Date , Some Contemplate ,
Debate A Dictate , Open A Flood Gate ,
Agitate And Aggravate , Translate A Primate ,
Educate And Titillate , Operate To Tempt Fate ,
Obfuscate , Obliterate , Perpetrate A Postulate ,
Speak Sentences That Just Tesselate ,
Exaggerate To Communicate , Hesitate To Inculcate ,
Damn , Just Don't Dis My Dose Rate !
#TimeHeals
#SelfReflection
#MovingOn #SelfDiscovery
#MovingOn #SelfDiscovery
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
27th Jul 2021 9:15pm
27th Jul 2021 9:15pm
I Bow Unto Grace As I Am, As I See, As I Appear
Visual-In the womb of creation and then there was me
#identity
#SelfReflection
#meditation #SelfWorth
#meditation #SelfWorth
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Medinda
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 9:14pm
26th Jul 2021 9:14pm
I Am You
Screaming witch
Cackling at me
What does she see
Sees me
Says something
I scream
Says that she is me
Cackling at me
What does she see
Sees me
Says something
I scream
Says that she is me
#SelfReflection
31 reads
6 Comments
BonitaTushy
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 1:15pm
26th Jul 2021 1:15pm
Bold
1:39 am
How many years did it take for you to be bold?
Too many times did you fold
Molded thyself; wiped the dirt off my shoulder
Got colder but warmer all at once
Drunk off faith and peace of mind
No man can block my shine
Brighter than a mag light in the face
Draped in grace
Remember when you used to fold
Broke that mold; reinvented and reimagined
Manifesting and staying in my magic
Tragic
People tried to stop that
Black is the color they don’t like
Brown is the skin they resent
Be Black
Be...
How many years did it take for you to be bold?
Too many times did you fold
Molded thyself; wiped the dirt off my shoulder
Got colder but warmer all at once
Drunk off faith and peace of mind
No man can block my shine
Brighter than a mag light in the face
Draped in grace
Remember when you used to fold
Broke that mold; reinvented and reimagined
Manifesting and staying in my magic
Tragic
People tried to stop that
Black is the color they don’t like
Brown is the skin they resent
Be Black
Be...
#strength
#courage
#racism
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
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FATBOY300PLUS
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 5:03am
26th Jul 2021 5:03am
Straight From the Furnace
Tempered steel
deep-forged in fire
is the strength
of my desire
Made with purpose
In your flames
And only by you
Is it tamed
Like molten metal
Shaped and strengthened
In your heat, treated
Molded
Lengthened
In passion, hardened
For pleasure's intent
In your love's oil,
first drenched
then quenched
Thank you, Crimsin for the inspiration in "Sated"
deep-forged in fire
is the strength
of my desire
Made with purpose
In your flames
And only by you
Is it tamed
Like molten metal
Shaped and strengthened
In your heat, treated
Molded
Lengthened
In passion, hardened
For pleasure's intent
In your love's oil,
first drenched
then quenched
Thank you, Crimsin for the inspiration in "Sated"
#strength
#romantic
#SelfReflection
46 reads
6 Comments
Dreamboy
Poem Published
25th Jul 2021 3:13am
25th Jul 2021 3:13am
Tundra [official audio version link]
this is the link to my song written from my original poem, Tundra.
copy and paste in browser to hear.
https://soundcloud.com/sofagangco/chumby-wumby-tundra
copy and paste in browser to hear.
https://soundcloud.com/sofagangco/chumby-wumby-tundra
#dark
#SelfReflection
#disappointment #acceptance
#disappointment #acceptance
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