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.
Brandon
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Poem Published
Today 10:32am
Today 10:32am
My Soul
I am but a lost incandescent soul
Glowing in the dark
Once picked up and traveled.
A long distant ride followed
Let down and fallen
I am just a simple thing
Sitting in the shadows again
Waiting ever so patiently in the void
I taste and smell and hear
Nothing special to be seen
Just a light in the fog
A guide that hides no secrets
A filament burning bright
Showing every bit of it's insides
Translucent
Transparent
I used to sing and cheer
Glowing so bright in hands held high
Every mention,...
Glowing in the dark
Once picked up and traveled.
A long distant ride followed
Let down and fallen
I am just a simple thing
Sitting in the shadows again
Waiting ever so patiently in the void
I taste and smell and hear
Nothing special to be seen
Just a light in the fog
A guide that hides no secrets
A filament burning bright
Showing every bit of it's insides
Translucent
Transparent
I used to sing and cheer
Glowing so bright in hands held high
Every mention,...
#loneliness
#SelfReflection
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HumbleBill21212
Poem Published
Today 5:02am
Today 5:02am
Life Lived
A child was born into this world,
Clueless and without a friend.
For him its just beginning,
For others its at its end.
He'll learn of many things,
Upon the opening of his eyes.
Everyone will hear his laughter,
No one will hear his cries.
Growing up he will learn,
Nothing is what it seems,
When all his hopes and goals,
Are shattered, with all his dreams.
The older that he gets,
The more he will see,
Memories, he never got to make,
For never was he free.
A old man is leaving...
Clueless and without a friend.
For him its just beginning,
For others its at its end.
He'll learn of many things,
Upon the opening of his eyes.
Everyone will hear his laughter,
No one will hear his cries.
Growing up he will learn,
Nothing is what it seems,
When all his hopes and goals,
Are shattered, with all his dreams.
The older that he gets,
The more he will see,
Memories, he never got to make,
For never was he free.
A old man is leaving...
#sadness
#grief
#despair
#emptiness
#fear
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Brandon
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Poem Published
Today 2:39am
Today 2:39am
When Ending
Dead stop
Crumbled
Layed out
Dismayed
Watching
Waiting
Desolately debating
Hesitant
Wanting more
Needing
Done with
Frailty
Undergoing it
Fucked
Left
Dropped
Letting go
Crumbled
Layed out
Dismayed
Watching
Waiting
Desolately debating
Hesitant
Wanting more
Needing
Done with
Frailty
Undergoing it
Fucked
Left
Dropped
Letting go
#depression
#loneliness
9 reads
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LunaGreyhawk
Poem Published
26th Sep 2021 00:59am
26th Sep 2021 00:59am
Lost Girl
where does the little girl go?
where does she go?
I want to tell her it’s ok to need the wind
whipping through her long, wild hair
when her soft, bare feet have
grown calloused, running
out of lush, green grass and
her face no longer basks
unapologetically in the sun
where does she go?
I want to tell her it’s ok to need to be held
by those supposed to love you most
when her arms cease reaching
upwards to be cradled against
her mother’s breast,
and her chin becomes too wise ...
where does she go?
I want to tell her it’s ok to need the wind
whipping through her long, wild hair
when her soft, bare feet have
grown calloused, running
out of lush, green grass and
her face no longer basks
unapologetically in the sun
where does she go?
I want to tell her it’s ok to need to be held
by those supposed to love you most
when her arms cease reaching
upwards to be cradled against
her mother’s breast,
and her chin becomes too wise ...
#aging
12 reads
4 Comments
HumbleBill21212
Poem Published
25th Sep 2021 8:52pm
25th Sep 2021 8:52pm
Empty
Loneliness, a heart with a hole.
Like happiness, tore from the soul.
The burning pain, that fills my being.
With solitude, that's never fleeing.
I reach my hand out, to be forsaken.
Alone and scared, for its never taken.
Each day I wake, filled with dread.
And wonder about, this life I've lead.
No companions, nary a friend.
A crimeless sentence, until the end.
The price I pay, for my silent cry?
Isolation, till the day I die.
If you hear my plea, then take command.
Take a chance, and take my hand.
Written by William B
Like happiness, tore from the soul.
The burning pain, that fills my being.
With solitude, that's never fleeing.
I reach my hand out, to be forsaken.
Alone and scared, for its never taken.
Each day I wake, filled with dread.
And wonder about, this life I've lead.
No companions, nary a friend.
A crimeless sentence, until the end.
The price I pay, for my silent cry?
Isolation, till the day I die.
If you hear my plea, then take command.
Take a chance, and take my hand.
Written by William B
#sadness
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#despair
#emptiness
26 reads
3 Comments
RoseJasmine
Poem Published
25th Sep 2021 4:50pm
25th Sep 2021 4:50pm
Rejuvenating 2
It's all about this heart
How it was torn
when the hatred was born
It's time to empathize
but not even to despise
to the ones who hurt me once
It's time to forgive
the one who was mean
when I was smiling at him
Are you in heaven, my dear?
I would love to emphasize
Let go all of the despise
I am rejuvenating
How it was torn
when the hatred was born
It's time to empathize
but not even to despise
to the ones who hurt me once
It's time to forgive
the one who was mean
when I was smiling at him
Are you in heaven, my dear?
I would love to emphasize
Let go all of the despise
I am rejuvenating
#forgiveness
22 reads
6 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
25th Sep 2021 1:10pm
25th Sep 2021 1:10pm
THE (Acrostic)
Tears
Have
Echoes
by Jemia
Have
Echoes
by Jemia
#sadness
#acrostic
10 reads
0 Comments
Em-ily
Edward_Young
Edward_Young
Poem Published
25th Sep 2021 4:20am
25th Sep 2021 4:20am
Hella bitchin'
Repeatedly.
#SelfWorth
14 reads
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Billy_Snagg
Snaggy
Snaggy
Poem Published
24th Sep 2021 10:32pm
24th Sep 2021 10:32pm
Billy's In Town!
Come on, Billy's in town!
No need to feel down,
Why you wearing a frown?
I'll act like the clown,
If it makes you feel sound,
While I search for the noun,
That was bringin' ya down.
Billy's in town,
Wearing the Crown.
Let me buy you a round,
As we drink while we drown.
If you've spent every dime,
Still we can dine,
Don't worry 'bout time -
Your place or mine?
Our chance to shine...
No need to feel down,
Why you wearing a frown?
I'll act like the clown,
If it makes you feel sound,
While I search for the noun,
That was bringin' ya down.
Billy's in town,
Wearing the Crown.
Let me buy you a round,
As we drink while we drown.
If you've spent every dime,
Still we can dine,
Don't worry 'bout time -
Your place or mine?
Our chance to shine...
#happiness
#kindness
#hope
21 reads
4 Comments
HumbleBill21212
Poem Published
24th Sep 2021 8:14pm
24th Sep 2021 8:14pm
If only
Within myself, here I
hide.
Countless tears, that I have cried.
No one around, left all
alone.
My mind escapes, the danger zone.
Hurt and shame, That's buried deep.
The scars inside, that I must keep.
The memories, that I can't bare.
None to tell, none who may care.
A kindred soul, to seek and find.
To erase the terror, to ease mind.
To heal wounds, thats hidden well.
To pull me up, from within my hell.
Written by: Humble Bill B
hide.
Countless tears, that I have cried.
No one around, left all
alone.
My mind escapes, the danger zone.
Hurt and shame, That's buried deep.
The scars inside, that I must keep.
The memories, that I can't bare.
None to tell, none who may care.
A kindred soul, to seek and find.
To erase the terror, to ease mind.
To heal wounds, thats hidden well.
To pull me up, from within my hell.
Written by: Humble Bill B
#sadness
#grief
#heartbroken
#despair
#emptiness
40 reads
0 Comments
Keilani
Poem Published
24th Sep 2021 2:49pm
24th Sep 2021 2:49pm
Eclipsed
Overshadowed
I tore the yoke
Awoke
in light
Beside me now
she walks
Not in front
I tore the yoke
Awoke
in light
Beside me now
she walks
Not in front
#sister
21 reads
2 Comments
grandrizin
Poem Published
24th Sep 2021 1:12pm
24th Sep 2021 1:12pm
Lyrics
Are my enemies of my enemies a friend of me
Some time ago a kin of me put sin in me
What's forgiveness without apologies
My daily bread was spent with dread
I drift away astray instead the the narrow path
Again I ask Am I I Am
Treated lest than
subtraction the only math I know
Unless ends meet proverty at high steep
I caught thoughts counting sheeps
That wasn't me
falsely imprinted memories erased to be replaced a damaged hippocampus unapproved data management
Attempts to sabotage God The Most High's grace
Forgive me from my...
Some time ago a kin of me put sin in me
What's forgiveness without apologies
My daily bread was spent with dread
I drift away astray instead the the narrow path
Again I ask Am I I Am
Treated lest than
subtraction the only math I know
Unless ends meet proverty at high steep
I caught thoughts counting sheeps
That wasn't me
falsely imprinted memories erased to be replaced a damaged hippocampus unapproved data management
Attempts to sabotage God The Most High's grace
Forgive me from my...
#myself
18 reads
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