Long Poems About Self Reflection
#SelfReflection
Long poems about self reflection. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
NP_NP
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 4:56pm
20th Jan 2025 4:56pm
Stillness
He asks, "What's on your mind?"
I respond with nothing,
but the silence betrays me—
he sees it in my eyes, the quiet
drift of thought. So again, he asks,
"What's on your mind?"
And I answer, simply, "Life."
He wants to know more,
to pull me from my reverie,
but he knows better
than to break the stillness.
Let me be, lost in wonder,
staring through the window
at the passing trees,
the strangers in their cars,
the signs, the void of motion.
I'm not rude, I’m just...
I respond with nothing,
but the silence betrays me—
he sees it in my eyes, the quiet
drift of thought. So again, he asks,
"What's on your mind?"
And I answer, simply, "Life."
He wants to know more,
to pull me from my reverie,
but he knows better
than to break the stillness.
Let me be, lost in wonder,
staring through the window
at the passing trees,
the strangers in their cars,
the signs, the void of motion.
I'm not rude, I’m just...
#identity
#learning
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
18th Jan 2025 8:37pm
18th Jan 2025 8:37pm
Am I Free?
Since I was a kid, I was that quiet kid who had too much on my mind to talk. I was constantly daydreaming, creating a fantasy world that felt safe to me. A world I never wanted to shatter with people's over dependence on me.
I still had close friends back then. At least two went on to become popular later on, but they never felt weird later talking to me.
I was the cool loner in school; I had my own crowd of folks who were similar. We had all some kind of confidence, even me who was more unsure of herself.
I learned early on that I had a dark side. I carried...
I still had close friends back then. At least two went on to become popular later on, but they never felt weird later talking to me.
I was the cool loner in school; I had my own crowd of folks who were similar. We had all some kind of confidence, even me who was more unsure of herself.
I learned early on that I had a dark side. I carried...
#SelfReflection
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
18th Jan 2025 12:16pm
18th Jan 2025 12:16pm
Just shut up and listen
It's me again the story teller of unspoken words ✍️ We all have been in a situation for one reason or another, 🤨 that we let what we say cause you to act a certain way not be heard. 🤔 Whether you are wrong or right in what you think and say to someone else, I say that to say this which ever the way you may take what it is I'm about to say to you. 🤨 When you don't agree with what someone say to you, how do you respond for do you begin yelling and cursing, 😠 yet you still not listening and thinking that they are wrong, for speaking to you in a calm...
#choices
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
#StreamOfConsciousness
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Paulajobi
Paula Jobi
Paula Jobi
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 10:53pm
17th Jan 2025 10:53pm
Did I Learn From It? Nope!
Don't be me!
Make the choices you THOUGHT ABOUT. Don't back out at the last moment! Don't get scared and quit or give up. Unless that is what you were thinking about! Don't be me and stick with status quo because...It's all I Knew!
When I was abused physically, emotionally, and sexually as a child - I did not speak up. I was scared to get hurt for telling so I remained and was hurt far more...but it was all I knew.
Don't be me!
I waited as a child for my mother to love me. If I had been removed I would have lost that chance at being loved. She...
Make the choices you THOUGHT ABOUT. Don't back out at the last moment! Don't get scared and quit or give up. Unless that is what you were thinking about! Don't be me and stick with status quo because...It's all I Knew!
When I was abused physically, emotionally, and sexually as a child - I did not speak up. I was scared to get hurt for telling so I remained and was hurt far more...but it was all I knew.
Don't be me!
I waited as a child for my mother to love me. If I had been removed I would have lost that chance at being loved. She...
#SelfReflection
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NP_NP
Poem Published
12th Jan 2025 10:43pm
12th Jan 2025 10:43pm
Yin & Yang
It’s yin and yang,
the dance of light and dark,
each needing the other
to keep life balanced.
We tug at the threads of blame,
claiming truth on either side,
but in reality—
neither of us is always right
nor always wrong.
We move through life,
clutching at self-preservation,
yet sleepwalking in the shadow of our own minds,
unaware of the darkness we fear.
If you fear your shadows,
know this—
you haven’t touched divinity yet,
there’s still more of you to...
the dance of light and dark,
each needing the other
to keep life balanced.
We tug at the threads of blame,
claiming truth on either side,
but in reality—
neither of us is always right
nor always wrong.
We move through life,
clutching at self-preservation,
yet sleepwalking in the shadow of our own minds,
unaware of the darkness we fear.
If you fear your shadows,
know this—
you haven’t touched divinity yet,
there’s still more of you to...
#inspirational
#learning
#meditation
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
12th Jan 2025 2:06pm
12th Jan 2025 2:06pm
The deception behind the mask
Man to woman and Woman to man let's be serious about, that scenario of what is happening in today's, in society of people's and there true intentions. 🤨 For sure don't we deserve to have something, that is real evidence of love and honor and respect. 💯 FOR sure what would you rather have in your life and world, don't you think that you are worthy of that, kind of devotion and truth and genuine honesty and trust. 💯 For now let's take it farther than that in each relationship, whether good or bad did you feel that you were getting that in return, 🤔 of that what...
#confessional
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
#StreamOfConsciousness
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Darkness_Fiend
Poem Published
11th Jan 2025 7:20pm
11th Jan 2025 7:20pm
(47) Laced Up Thoughts 01.11.2025 @ 12:04am
This lifestyle doesn’t get any easier.
Lately I feel very distant from life.
Will I ever run out of things to write?
Can you tell I’m high as a kite?
Dashed off Crenshaw Blvd last night.
Dwelling on life and everything in sight.
My addiction has kept me from the life I want.
I feel depressed as I continue to be truthful.
I’m an open book.
I’ll tell you just about anything.
Some things will have to die with me.
Certain things we can only take to the grave.
I can’t truly say I believe in an afterlife.
In the case...
Lately I feel very distant from life.
Will I ever run out of things to write?
Can you tell I’m high as a kite?
Dashed off Crenshaw Blvd last night.
Dwelling on life and everything in sight.
My addiction has kept me from the life I want.
I feel depressed as I continue to be truthful.
I’m an open book.
I’ll tell you just about anything.
Some things will have to die with me.
Certain things we can only take to the grave.
I can’t truly say I believe in an afterlife.
In the case...
#SelfReflection
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
11th Jan 2025 5:54am
11th Jan 2025 5:54am
The Girl Who Tells The Relentless Truth
Love me or hate me, I'm gonna be me.
Princess Alia/Diana Rose.
Princess of Hell and Earth.
I give you Earth by tending to the dying Garden of Eden as the Modern Day Eve.
I give you Hell by telling you the relentless truth you don't wanna hear.
Wanna hear you're a fat loser who needs to get off their ass and staying playing video games and eating cheetos in your mother's basement?
I'll tell you.
Wanna hear that you're a fat bitch who needs to stop endlessly complaining about why you're so...
Princess Alia/Diana Rose.
Princess of Hell and Earth.
I give you Earth by tending to the dying Garden of Eden as the Modern Day Eve.
I give you Hell by telling you the relentless truth you don't wanna hear.
Wanna hear you're a fat loser who needs to get off their ass and staying playing video games and eating cheetos in your mother's basement?
I'll tell you.
Wanna hear that you're a fat bitch who needs to stop endlessly complaining about why you're so...
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 9:27pm
10th Jan 2025 9:27pm
It's another year in my life
It's me again the story teller of unspoken words ✍️. 111 It's here at this moment in my life with another year in my life, coming that I am truly grateful and thankful and blessed. To be able to see another day in my life. For tomorrow is a blessing for me, on my 66 birthday. 🎉🎂 For sure it's on this day I silently reflect upon my life, as I journey and travel and walk the last four years of my own life. FOR let's go back to 2002 when I had a spinal infusion and I was unable to walk, 😭 or stand on my own two feet alone. 😔 IT was that moment in...
#confessional
#LifeAsAWriter
#memories
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
65 reads
2 Comments
OyateInyanNajin
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 1:51am
9th Jan 2025 1:51am
SUDDENLY IT CAME TO ME (Wed., Jan. 8th, 2025, 1:00am, Palm Springs, California)
suddenly
it came to me
in flowing streams
of gleaming liquid veils unfurled
a sacred truth s secret hidden
in these words
within my being
within my soul
whispered given
to by and from
someone something
some previously ungrasped unknown
higher ineffable power
somewhere far beyond
this earth this sun
these feelings thoughts
these thin ink lined words
arisen...
it came to me
in flowing streams
of gleaming liquid veils unfurled
a sacred truth s secret hidden
in these words
within my being
within my soul
whispered given
to by and from
someone something
some previously ungrasped unknown
higher ineffable power
somewhere far beyond
this earth this sun
these feelings thoughts
these thin ink lined words
arisen...
#evolution
#inspirational
#LifeCycle
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 9:32am
4th Jan 2025 9:32am
Dear Sarah
Dear Sarah,
Every time I think I want to get over you, I stop and stare at the magnificent masterpiece you are. Every time your smile lights up a room and your jokes crack a laugh or two and how you inspire everyone around you with your words of wisdom.
How despite your darkness, you exude confidence and a sweet aura. How you're just like any other girl who gushes over fanfiction and cute boys, but your essence is not the same. You are as rare as Mew, childlike yet free spirited deep thinker. Unique yet humble. Not trying to be different yet naturally is different....
Every time I think I want to get over you, I stop and stare at the magnificent masterpiece you are. Every time your smile lights up a room and your jokes crack a laugh or two and how you inspire everyone around you with your words of wisdom.
How despite your darkness, you exude confidence and a sweet aura. How you're just like any other girl who gushes over fanfiction and cute boys, but your essence is not the same. You are as rare as Mew, childlike yet free spirited deep thinker. Unique yet humble. Not trying to be different yet naturally is different....
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
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3 Comments
Paulajobi
Paula Jobi
Paula Jobi
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 7:44am
30th Dec 2024 7:44am
In foster care...
At thirteen, I was in foster care...
out in the country with a kind older couple
named Hank and Ellen who never abused me.
I was fed three times a day! I always finished my plate.
I had a room of my own...first time!
They bought me new clothes that fit me
and they were always clean and smelled outdoorsy.
Did I mention they never abused me?
I could run and play. Stare at clouds. I helped
collect eggs from the chicken coop. I had a kitten named Tiny and I even had a favorite tree!!! Nice!
NO ONE HIT ME OR TOUCHED ME THERE! Nicer! ...
out in the country with a kind older couple
named Hank and Ellen who never abused me.
I was fed three times a day! I always finished my plate.
I had a room of my own...first time!
They bought me new clothes that fit me
and they were always clean and smelled outdoorsy.
Did I mention they never abused me?
I could run and play. Stare at clouds. I helped
collect eggs from the chicken coop. I had a kitten named Tiny and I even had a favorite tree!!! Nice!
NO ONE HIT ME OR TOUCHED ME THERE! Nicer! ...
#happiness
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
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