Poems About Acceptance by Top Critiquers
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Poems about acceptance by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
26th Aug 2024 9:30pm
26th Aug 2024 9:30pm
She never listened to anybody
This was around the time I was 8 or 9 years old.
I was in the 3rd grade.
The teacher's aid always told her and the rest of us not to stand up on the swing.
She always did it anyway.
She never listened to anybody.
I heard she had a terrible upbringing.
She was beaten by her mother for being mischievous and defiant.
Her father would come home when he wanted to.
He was a traveling salesman.
Supposedly he had two mistresses, with families in Texas & Virginia.
I hated her guts because she always used to chase me home from school, pull my hair...
I was in the 3rd grade.
The teacher's aid always told her and the rest of us not to stand up on the swing.
She always did it anyway.
She never listened to anybody.
I heard she had a terrible upbringing.
She was beaten by her mother for being mischievous and defiant.
Her father would come home when he wanted to.
He was a traveling salesman.
Supposedly he had two mistresses, with families in Texas & Virginia.
I hated her guts because she always used to chase me home from school, pull my hair...
#acceptance
#childhood
#funny
#nonfiction
#school
174 reads
8 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
3rd Dec 2023 00:33am
3rd Dec 2023 00:33am
Nothingness
My hurt spoke to me of nothingness
and I long to let go of myself
Deep into the darkness
never to feel anything again
I don't want to try anymore
trying to fit in and still standing out
The one I love just wants to be accepted
I am cast out
I expected him to shiver with me in the cold
the cold spoke nothingness into my soul
and I long to let go of myself
Deep into the darkness
never to feel anything again
I don't want to try anymore
trying to fit in and still standing out
The one I love just wants to be accepted
I am cast out
I expected him to shiver with me in the cold
the cold spoke nothingness into my soul
#sadness
#love
#acceptance
325 reads
7 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
19th Mar 2025 11:20pm
19th Mar 2025 11:20pm
And yet
You fucked me over like
nothing mattered
while I stood like
a Valkyrie over
your body
ready to
dick kick
anyone
who wanted to hurt you.
But now I’m the one
who wants to hurt you.
So I’ll step
into an embrace
I use to think was sacred
long enough for
you to smell my
shampoo and the
Bath and Body Works
Japanese Cherry Blossom
body butter
on my...
nothing mattered
while I stood like
a Valkyrie over
your body
ready to
dick kick
anyone
who wanted to hurt you.
But now I’m the one
who wants to hurt you.
So I’ll step
into an embrace
I use to think was sacred
long enough for
you to smell my
shampoo and the
Bath and Body Works
Japanese Cherry Blossom
body butter
on my...
#acceptance
#obsession
224 reads
16 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
5th Apr 2025 1:48pm
5th Apr 2025 1:48pm
Native Harmony
Here I am as I am a entity of strength and perseverance, still surviving just trying to take it one day at a time ⌚ For the elders say that we are the chosen ones who were chosen, because of our strength and courage and perseverance. TO lead as an example for the wolf pack through the process of our journeys and travels and walks. THROUGH the forest of life and in the world. 🌎 For sure we can be many things in different ways and forms of existence. For sure we have a real sense of survival instinct, for wanting nothing more and nothing less than what we need to survive. 🐺
#acceptance
#identity
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
58 reads
2 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
Today 1:28am
Today 1:28am
What Were You Expecting
Not everything is always sunshine and roses
Or blue skies with pretty eyes that shine
There are days when the haze feels colder
As if some kind of angst is biding our time.
It’s unrealistic to expect everything to be perfect
When the unexpected may be lurking nearby
Some of us with older bones know it to be true
When we’ll have to look at fate right in the eye
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70 Total
Or blue skies with pretty eyes that shine
There are days when the haze feels colder
As if some kind of angst is biding our time.
It’s unrealistic to expect everything to be perfect
When the unexpected may be lurking nearby
Some of us with older bones know it to be true
When we’ll have to look at fate right in the eye
56 Unique Words
70 Total
#acceptance
#death
#fate
14 reads
0 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 7:55am
29th Jul 2021 7:55am
Lone Rider - Hybrid Floral - Meaning of Life
Riding the rail
Out of town
Nobody sleeps
Hobo blues
Tried to fit in
Conform
Pastel golf shirts
I'm dressed all in black
Barrio art studio
I paint my magic
Cheap rent and broken glass
Lone Rider working the pretty
Out of town
Nobody sleeps
Hobo blues
Tried to fit in
Conform
Pastel golf shirts
I'm dressed all in black
Barrio art studio
I paint my magic
Cheap rent and broken glass
Lone Rider working the pretty
#identity
#confessional
#art #acceptance
#art #acceptance
379 reads
23 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2025 9:33pm
3rd Apr 2025 9:33pm
short-lived fantasies
3 of 30
everything...
every imaginable uplifting
gifted to me in that moment of time
that's what it gave me
on a wild whim I entered
never expecting any kind of return
they all said it wouldn't happen
insistent my stature wasn't up to the challenge
{what's wrong with being petite?!}
but for the first time...
I followed my dream
a few simple photos
brief biography
stuffed in an envelope
addressed & sent
& the unthinkable occurred
I got the call
date set...
everything...
every imaginable uplifting
gifted to me in that moment of time
that's what it gave me
on a wild whim I entered
never expecting any kind of return
they all said it wouldn't happen
insistent my stature wasn't up to the challenge
{what's wrong with being petite?!}
but for the first time...
I followed my dream
a few simple photos
brief biography
stuffed in an envelope
addressed & sent
& the unthinkable occurred
I got the call
date set...
#acceptance
#confessional
#dreams #risk
#dreams #risk
96 reads
4 Comments
Ahavati
Tams
Tams
Poem Published
27th Aug 2020 6:27pm
27th Aug 2020 6:27pm
Beloved Partner of the Path
You may not care much for me;
yet I walk with you nonetheless
realizing the illusion
of our differences—
You may highlight faults
of my past, and that's okay—
mistakes are growth catalysts
We are not the same people
we were an hour ago. . .
if we've learned anything;
therefore, be gentle
with yourself, and others
despite the road they walk—
we're all merely stardust and ash
experiencing our way back home
~
yet I walk with you nonetheless
realizing the illusion
of our differences—
You may highlight faults
of my past, and that's okay—
mistakes are growth catalysts
We are not the same people
we were an hour ago. . .
if we've learned anything;
therefore, be gentle
with yourself, and others
despite the road they walk—
we're all merely stardust and ash
experiencing our way back home
~
#relationships
#spiritual
#acceptance
#philosophical
#wisdom
847 reads
57 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 1:41pm
20th Jan 2025 1:41pm
What I didn't see on TV
If this woman is bald
and that man does braids
stop shitting and join the dance.
The rhythm pulses, bodies move
eyes meet, smiles meet.
In the center of the track the energy grows
arms rise, feet glide,
the sound envelops, the soul is freed.
Every step is a story told
each turn is a moment lived.
Dance unites, transforms and transcends
and in the end we are all one.
Lights flicker, shadows lengthen,
fragmented moments in time,
the harmony of a silent symphony.
Feet that stumble, hearts...
and that man does braids
stop shitting and join the dance.
The rhythm pulses, bodies move
eyes meet, smiles meet.
In the center of the track the energy grows
arms rise, feet glide,
the sound envelops, the soul is freed.
Every step is a story told
each turn is a moment lived.
Dance unites, transforms and transcends
and in the end we are all one.
Lights flicker, shadows lengthen,
fragmented moments in time,
the harmony of a silent symphony.
Feet that stumble, hearts...
#acceptance
#dance
#emotions
#healing
#relationships
84 reads
4 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
12th Aug 2021 7:41pm
12th Aug 2021 7:41pm
A THOUSAND APOLOGIES
PLEASE
It's not about
right or wrong,
or contextual
clarity or the
projection of
metaphorical expressions
missing being understood.
It's not a
matter of semantics
or who said what...
it's about apologies
and a new invitation
to dialogue and
build on pluses...
this is a kneeling request
from an aching soul.
Okay?
It's not about
right or wrong,
or contextual
clarity or the
projection of
metaphorical expressions
missing being understood.
It's not a
matter of semantics
or who said what...
it's about apologies
and a new invitation
to dialogue and
build on pluses...
this is a kneeling request
from an aching soul.
Okay?
#inspirational
#LifeChangingMoment
#learning
#acceptance
#determination
357 reads
2 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
13th Aug 2024 4:09pm
13th Aug 2024 4:09pm
Live and Learn
The psyche is a lightning thing
and flesh burns like a tree
within the maelstrom where we sing
of sad mortality.
The soul is an experiment
like lab rats testing pain
and never mind the detriment
done to the heart and brain.
And in this hell we must make do
with less than what we want
spinning tribulation anew
as something like a jaunt...
where lessons learned along the way
are how the fears allay.
and flesh burns like a tree
within the maelstrom where we sing
of sad mortality.
The soul is an experiment
like lab rats testing pain
and never mind the detriment
done to the heart and brain.
And in this hell we must make do
with less than what we want
spinning tribulation anew
as something like a jaunt...
where lessons learned along the way
are how the fears allay.
#acceptance
148 reads
7 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
15th Jul 2024 1:14am
15th Jul 2024 1:14am
On seeking wholeness in a hammock
the guilt that gnaws
the lessons learned
old wounds opened
new scars earned
grief gently bleaches
as sun peeks ‘round trees
loss ripens to gratitude
through tender breeze
the bygones are past
so receive what is real
not all things can last
but all can heal
.
the lessons learned
old wounds opened
new scars earned
grief gently bleaches
as sun peeks ‘round trees
loss ripens to gratitude
through tender breeze
the bygones are past
so receive what is real
not all things can last
but all can heal
.
#acceptance
#healing
#MovingOn
297 reads
10 Comments
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