Self Poems
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Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself
This area is for personal poetry: poems about yourself and your feelings about who you are. Poems here focus on identity, ego, self confidence, insecurities and personality. For readers it's a chance to get to know the poet better and for writers it's an opportunity to analyse themselves by poetic means. The self poems category encourages the poet to lay themselves bare for all to read about, it can be both a frightening and empowering experience.
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Joybell
Joybell
Bumped Today 2:12pm
17th Oct 2020 10:50pm
17th Oct 2020 10:50pm
Letting Go
Overflowing with anxiety
Concious she needs to settle
Facing a personal crossroad
Her focus, family
Multiple opportunies await
If she unshackles the past
Her reward, eternal memories
Of herself, she must gain control
Putting aside her own ideals
Her opinions locked away
Having faith she's done enough
Anchoring loyalty and trust
She reflects on bygone years
Examining how she behaved
Was she forthright and fair
Or selfish without a care
Tinged with sadness and regret
Ashamed of her...
Concious she needs to settle
Facing a personal crossroad
Her focus, family
Multiple opportunies await
If she unshackles the past
Her reward, eternal memories
Of herself, she must gain control
Putting aside her own ideals
Her opinions locked away
Having faith she's done enough
Anchoring loyalty and trust
She reflects on bygone years
Examining how she behaved
Was she forthright and fair
Or selfish without a care
Tinged with sadness and regret
Ashamed of her...
#love
#regret
#marriage
#forgiveness
#memories
94 reads
4 Comments
Calytheus
Poem Published
Today 9:43am
Today 9:43am
Value in Pain
I remember a time in childhood
When I was still so weak and blind
I was alone, unwanted and alienated
Everyone kept leaving me from behind
But destiny had other plans for me
And kept me from being wasted
By God I can’t even understand
Why I even barely lasted
Who would have ever knew
I guess I was just being tested
I kept asking myself
If I was even worth it
But in my utter ignorance
I kept searching in vain
I only then found the answer
Through realizing
That there is value in pain
When I was still so weak and blind
I was alone, unwanted and alienated
Everyone kept leaving me from behind
But destiny had other plans for me
And kept me from being wasted
By God I can’t even understand
Why I even barely lasted
Who would have ever knew
I guess I was just being tested
I kept asking myself
If I was even worth it
But in my utter ignorance
I kept searching in vain
I only then found the answer
Through realizing
That there is value in pain
#SelfReflection
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0 Comments
Jofec
Poem Published
Today 7:28am
Today 7:28am
The magic cat in the rabbit hat trick
This way I execute my rhymes it’s like a game of eye spy with a bunch of sounds like clues
I’m the fox in socks rapping with the big cat hat on
Dr sueuss is my spirit animal
I’m Chanelling him like a king riddling my way to god
You Gota have faith he is back
his talent now lies in my raps
I’m the fox in socks rapping with the big cat hat on
Dr sueuss is my spirit animal
I’m Chanelling him like a king riddling my way to god
You Gota have faith he is back
his talent now lies in my raps
#faith
#rebirth
#fate
#magic
#curse
4 reads
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ravibabygirl
Poem Published
Today 2:31am
Today 2:31am
michelles song
its night time finally
i come out so silently
to see what is out there in a fight
maybe i will get in a fight
I'm the strongest in my land
i see the ocean i see the sand
I'm the toughest in my kingdom
for i know freedom
yes i am insane
at least I'm not in chains
i go after what i crave
i am not the same
i don't have t
let me make that clear
do i need to put you inline
for i am not kind ...
i come out so silently
to see what is out there in a fight
maybe i will get in a fight
I'm the strongest in my land
i see the ocean i see the sand
I'm the toughest in my kingdom
for i know freedom
yes i am insane
at least I'm not in chains
i go after what i crave
i am not the same
i don't have t
let me make that clear
do i need to put you inline
for i am not kind ...
#strength
#mirror
#myself #redemption
#myself #redemption
10 reads
1 Comment
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
Today 2:11am
Today 2:11am
Exposed Faultline
Original sin
Chronic despair
Propelled pain
From unbalanced mind
Full of flaws
Figuribg out
How to survive
No optimism
On the horizon
Entrenched depression
Honesty
Can be oainful
An igly truth
That has no beauty
For the eye
Fasten your seatbelt
This attitude
Has altitude
Exposed faultline
Waits for the fall
Along the way
Theres fuelled Anxieties
That moves the needle
Tiwards the vein
Of life
Chronic despair
Propelled pain
From unbalanced mind
Full of flaws
Figuribg out
How to survive
No optimism
On the horizon
Entrenched depression
Honesty
Can be oainful
An igly truth
That has no beauty
For the eye
Fasten your seatbelt
This attitude
Has altitude
Exposed faultline
Waits for the fall
Along the way
Theres fuelled Anxieties
That moves the needle
Tiwards the vein
Of life
#depression
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
21 reads
JakAlfhild
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:11pm
Yesterday 9:11pm
My child
Unconditional love started the moment
I found out about you
Through all the trials and tribulations
of growing up
I tried to raise you differently than I
To not be afraid to trust
or be yourself
to build castles in the sand
I think I failed, or
perhaps exceeded
For as you have grown,
Your secrets have, too
Like the ocean steals the sand
with each roll of the waves
Your lies and deceit
Wear holes in my heart
Steal pieces of my soul
Soon I shall be an empty shell
On the ever changing shoreline
I found out about you
Through all the trials and tribulations
of growing up
I tried to raise you differently than I
To not be afraid to trust
or be yourself
to build castles in the sand
I think I failed, or
perhaps exceeded
For as you have grown,
Your secrets have, too
Like the ocean steals the sand
with each roll of the waves
Your lies and deceit
Wear holes in my heart
Steal pieces of my soul
Soon I shall be an empty shell
On the ever changing shoreline
#sadness
#children
#lies
12 reads
1 Comment
eroseternal
Tim Eros
Tim Eros
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:40pm
Yesterday 8:40pm
The Rest of My Life
I settle in
to my new life
Without love
No friend, or wife
I can only wonder
and live in regret
of how I lost her
I'll never forget
Tim Eros
20201122
to my new life
Without love
No friend, or wife
I can only wonder
and live in regret
of how I lost her
I'll never forget
Tim Eros
20201122
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#death
20 reads
0 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:07pm
Yesterday 8:07pm
Picking Cherries!
Naked Cherry Blossoms
Are far more sexy
When clothed
A bit like me really!
Are far more sexy
When clothed
A bit like me really!
#trees
#funny
#sensual
7 reads
0 Comments
Honoria
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:51pm
Yesterday 5:51pm
Alas, before you I stand alone
Alas, before you I stand alone,
Amidst no one else to adore;
There is no friend where I am blown,
This lonely abyss, and tuneless shore.
I’ve come to accept myself, aged and sore.
Within the looking glass I appeal once again;
Not by much, but little more
To become yet anew or, perhaps to begin.
Thus resigned to the world, I raise the curtain
Harnessed and trussed attached to my yoke.
What I’ll ne’er share, is with the devil I’d bargain{d};
Simultaneously smiling as I seethe and choke.
...
Amidst no one else to adore;
There is no friend where I am blown,
This lonely abyss, and tuneless shore.
I’ve come to accept myself, aged and sore.
Within the looking glass I appeal once again;
Not by much, but little more
To become yet anew or, perhaps to begin.
Thus resigned to the world, I raise the curtain
Harnessed and trussed attached to my yoke.
What I’ll ne’er share, is with the devil I’d bargain{d};
Simultaneously smiling as I seethe and choke.
...
#SelfWorth
#LordByron
32 reads
7 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:00pm
Yesterday 5:00pm
Fallacy
I bare
This carcass
Upon the page
In all it's ugliness
Purging poison
Like puss from a sore
Not a joyful read
Scrawled
By a living corpse
Just functioning undead
Who feels nothing
Around him
Dragging these old bones
Out of bed
Becomes routine
More muscle memory
Than an urge
To get into the world
This fallacy
Of my gift for words
Is an illusion
My true nature
Is spilling
Before you now
A virus
Local outbreak
Isolate ...
This carcass
Upon the page
In all it's ugliness
Purging poison
Like puss from a sore
Not a joyful read
Scrawled
By a living corpse
Just functioning undead
Who feels nothing
Around him
Dragging these old bones
Out of bed
Becomes routine
More muscle memory
Than an urge
To get into the world
This fallacy
Of my gift for words
Is an illusion
My true nature
Is spilling
Before you now
A virus
Local outbreak
Isolate ...
#depression
#LifeStruggles
19 reads
ELIAS11
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:48pm
Yesterday 4:48pm
Anicia
A transparent shadow
to accompany my heretic ghost
a toast with a crystalline hand
can heaven endure her promise
to this erratic and fanatic land
These turning weeds
lay at the feet
of these lavishly brilliant flowers
vibrant towers of succulent color
that hover above the dying
beauty again has left her beast
...
to accompany my heretic ghost
a toast with a crystalline hand
can heaven endure her promise
to this erratic and fanatic land
These turning weeds
lay at the feet
of these lavishly brilliant flowers
vibrant towers of succulent color
that hover above the dying
beauty again has left her beast
...
#depression
#loneliness
#addiction
#WritingPoetry
#emptiness
11 reads
4 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:48pm
Yesterday 4:48pm
Shattered and Broken
Behind the satin curtain of being
The Poetry of glass cities
Shattered pieces, broken people
And faith turned inside out
Shredded and torn words,
suffer obscene manners of suicide
Lines disappear into the ether
The Poetry of glass cities
Shattered pieces, broken people
And faith turned inside out
Shredded and torn words,
suffer obscene manners of suicide
Lines disappear into the ether
#LifeStruggles
#WritingPoetry
#FeelingLost #SelfDiscovery
#FeelingLost #SelfDiscovery
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8 Comments
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