Self Reflection Poems
#SelfReflection
Poems about self reflection, where we contemplate our own personality and behaviour. Self aware poems engaging in introspection and meditation.
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It’s Time
Someone here said it perfectly
“Grief and loss
Get more attention than joy”
I no longer want to be guilty
Of giving grief more of my time
Than it deserves
It’s about time for me
To pull my head
Out of my ass
Stop wallowing
And get on
With the business
Of living
And loving again
I could concentrate
On the pain
But I’d rather
Pay attention
To...
“Grief and loss
Get more attention than joy”
I no longer want to be guilty
Of giving grief more of my time
Than it deserves
It’s about time for me
To pull my head
Out of my ass
Stop wallowing
And get on
With the business
Of living
And loving again
I could concentrate
On the pain
But I’d rather
Pay attention
To...
#happiness
#love
#breakup
#SelfReflection
#gratitude
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Slow Dancing
I used to dance on his feet
When I didn’t he would get frustrated that I always had to take the lead
I think it was just a precursor to how things were going to be
Slow dancing with daddy
When I didn’t he would get frustrated that I always had to take the lead
I think it was just a precursor to how things were going to be
Slow dancing with daddy
#myself
#SelfReflection
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A Comforting Inevitability (2024)
The sun rises beyond its normal horizon —
from this point on are all things changed
a switched journey is inked in the upper house
since missing truths have merely been mislaid
a sense of new order emerges with increasing frequency
as patterns of deliberation give way to a singular path
the new base-line points to a tropic of conversion
with questions answered before even asked
in the final analysis one moves beyond looking back concerned
and looks forward with a kind of anticipating TLC
where, of all the many futures...
from this point on are all things changed
a switched journey is inked in the upper house
since missing truths have merely been mislaid
a sense of new order emerges with increasing frequency
as patterns of deliberation give way to a singular path
the new base-line points to a tropic of conversion
with questions answered before even asked
in the final analysis one moves beyond looking back concerned
and looks forward with a kind of anticipating TLC
where, of all the many futures...
#spiritual
#LifeChangingMoment
#SelfReflection
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Sleepless nights
Another sleepless night
Bestowed upon me
I wish I could just ignore it
And be set free.
We had just spent the day
having passionate, wild sex
Then she told me something
That made OUR lives complex.
She told me about them,
The guys in the house next door
And all I could think about
Was that my wife's a whore!
It's almost two years to the day
When she seemingly destroyed OUR life
That's why I can proudly say
She's my ex-wife!
My (sex) life has suffered
Though I trying to get past ...
Bestowed upon me
I wish I could just ignore it
And be set free.
We had just spent the day
having passionate, wild sex
Then she told me something
That made OUR lives complex.
She told me about them,
The guys in the house next door
And all I could think about
Was that my wife's a whore!
It's almost two years to the day
When she seemingly destroyed OUR life
That's why I can proudly say
She's my ex-wife!
My (sex) life has suffered
Though I trying to get past ...
#love
#sex
#betrayal #SelfReflection
#betrayal #SelfReflection
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disposable...
he...a euphemism for one...& then another...& another
came into her life with a vengeance
his attentions bringing glowing smiles & eliciting sighs
making her days magically shiny & beautifully bright
so many hours spent together
taking long walks in the park
sharing picnics beneath trees
holding hands in the car...
driving leisurely down gravel coated country roads
...just for the chance to be together
and the way his eyes always sought her out in a crowd
lighting up & immediately filling with love ...
came into her life with a vengeance
his attentions bringing glowing smiles & eliciting sighs
making her days magically shiny & beautifully bright
so many hours spent together
taking long walks in the park
sharing picnics beneath trees
holding hands in the car...
driving leisurely down gravel coated country roads
...just for the chance to be together
and the way his eyes always sought her out in a crowd
lighting up & immediately filling with love ...
#love
#learning
#SelfReflection #healing
#SelfReflection #healing
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Empty Hopes
One year from now will I arrive?
A premonition of death & lies
complicity burns the remembrance
criminals sleep, compelling evidence
tight rope of hopes begin to fray
ghost of the sun hides in the shade
thoughts & memories dissolve & fade
one last breath where my body will lay
A premonition of death & lies
complicity burns the remembrance
criminals sleep, compelling evidence
tight rope of hopes begin to fray
ghost of the sun hides in the shade
thoughts & memories dissolve & fade
one last breath where my body will lay
#hope
#dark
#death
#rhyming
#SelfReflection
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Senior Citizen Discount
#myself
#aging
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
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IMPERVIOUS TO BORDERS (mid 1990's- early 2000's; Galveston Island Texas)
i am a color
moving through borders
though seldom seen
or known
some borders are set
some are unmarked
some borders are free
and then sometimes
at times
but not very often
especially these days
anymore
there are no borders at all
therefore i am a color
free from and impervious to
borders boundaries
and other such word label limits
just as i feel i am
equally free from
and impervious to
the thoughts words
judgments...
moving through borders
though seldom seen
or known
some borders are set
some are unmarked
some borders are free
and then sometimes
at times
but not very often
especially these days
anymore
there are no borders at all
therefore i am a color
free from and impervious to
borders boundaries
and other such word label limits
just as i feel i am
equally free from
and impervious to
the thoughts words
judgments...
#identity
#LifeAsAWriter
#myself
#SelfReflection
#acceptance
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every now and then
the best days are days
when nothing gets done
days that are as rare and
comfortable as wearing
an old pair of shoes all
over your body
days when the coffee
is hot and the smokes
are good;
good like a blessing from
Sir Walter Raleigh
good like forgetting
the past for a few
minutes
good like remembering
the past for a few
minutes
days where all the old
wounds hurt less
days where dreams sleep
peacefully in the rainbow
fields of...
when nothing gets done
days that are as rare and
comfortable as wearing
an old pair of shoes all
over your body
days when the coffee
is hot and the smokes
are good;
good like a blessing from
Sir Walter Raleigh
good like forgetting
the past for a few
minutes
good like remembering
the past for a few
minutes
days where all the old
wounds hurt less
days where dreams sleep
peacefully in the rainbow
fields of...
#SelfReflection
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power of investment
he used to tell me...when it comes to love
the one least invested has the most power
I resented it at the time
it made me so angry...
...so hurt
guess that shows where I fell in our equation...
in the end...turns out he was right
truth is...love is only as real as we allow it
and not everyone has the same capacity
...translation...
...or the will
but my mushy heart will gleefully fall
regardless of how unlikely it may turn out
because I feel most alive when I'm giving
when the glow warms my entire...
the one least invested has the most power
I resented it at the time
it made me so angry...
...so hurt
guess that shows where I fell in our equation...
in the end...turns out he was right
truth is...love is only as real as we allow it
and not everyone has the same capacity
...translation...
...or the will
but my mushy heart will gleefully fall
regardless of how unlikely it may turn out
because I feel most alive when I'm giving
when the glow warms my entire...
#abuse
#confessional
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
#manipulation
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Behind Yinsel
just let go
all the pain in you
watch the blood
flow like a flood
the festive tints
over bloody footprints
circles of red
be careful where you tread
no more feeling
little actual healing
this invisible entity
has hit the limit of eternity
red alert
it's a dead cert
i think of death
with each breath
all the pain in you
watch the blood
flow like a flood
the festive tints
over bloody footprints
circles of red
be careful where you tread
no more feeling
little actual healing
this invisible entity
has hit the limit of eternity
red alert
it's a dead cert
i think of death
with each breath
#SelfHarm
#suicide
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
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Np More Why
gotta get away run away, disappear
become anonymous, escape what is near
the every day, everywhere, all of the time
ordinary me in my mind
gotta drive away, fly away, walk away, hike
into the forest, it's somewhere I like
to be alone, by myself no blah blah blah
a different world which is not very far
no sticky thoughts from passers by
no more wondering, no more why
listening, feeling, while breathing in
returning CO2 from within
surrounded by beings above and below
energizing everything as they grow ...
become anonymous, escape what is near
the every day, everywhere, all of the time
ordinary me in my mind
gotta drive away, fly away, walk away, hike
into the forest, it's somewhere I like
to be alone, by myself no blah blah blah
a different world which is not very far
no sticky thoughts from passers by
no more wondering, no more why
listening, feeling, while breathing in
returning CO2 from within
surrounded by beings above and below
energizing everything as they grow ...
#nature
#SelfReflection
#meditation
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