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.
StarliteStarfright
Poem Published
Today 8:38am
Today 8:38am
Demons
Sometimes the fear overwhelms me
I can’t bear to open my eyes
to face the demons staring back at me
breaking me painfully with their lies
I wield broken shards of myself
I perfect a beautiful slice
I hack at the demons until they’re dying
and sometimes it feels too nice
They haunt my dreams when I’m asleep
They overpower me when I’m awake
They suffocate my will to survive
Then they abuse me like I am the fake
I learned how to rise through their shadows
Take the pieces of me back for myself
because I can put me back...
I can’t bear to open my eyes
to face the demons staring back at me
breaking me painfully with their lies
I wield broken shards of myself
I perfect a beautiful slice
I hack at the demons until they’re dying
and sometimes it feels too nice
They haunt my dreams when I’m asleep
They overpower me when I’m awake
They suffocate my will to survive
Then they abuse me like I am the fake
I learned how to rise through their shadows
Take the pieces of me back for myself
because I can put me back...
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archetype23
Poem Published
Today 7:23am
Today 7:23am
UNSPOKEN
I had something that I wanted to say to you
but never mind what is behind me
You wouldn't understand it anyway
That was a different you and a different me
defined within the mind of unspoken eternity
left blindly behind with nothing to see
and nothing between you and me
and nothing between our two souls intertwined
That was an unspoken world of mine
but never mind what is behind me
You wouldn't understand it anyway
That was a different you and a different me
defined within the mind of unspoken eternity
left blindly behind with nothing to see
and nothing between you and me
and nothing between our two souls intertwined
That was an unspoken world of mine
15 reads
2 Comments
eswaller
Poem Published
Today 5:39am
Today 5:39am
Pink Rose
Open up your rosy pink petals
As I walk on by. The knot that settles
Within my stomach is set free to
Flutter like butterflies. Darling, you
Remind me of fresh spring days,
Filled with so much life. Your gaze
Reminds of innocence. You bring
So much hope and you always sing
To me softly like my favorite lullaby.
You bring me back to every high
When I am feeling low. You are
A reminder for everything that is far
But so close by and within a church.
You are everything that I search
For within the darkness. Your airiness ...
As I walk on by. The knot that settles
Within my stomach is set free to
Flutter like butterflies. Darling, you
Remind me of fresh spring days,
Filled with so much life. Your gaze
Reminds of innocence. You bring
So much hope and you always sing
To me softly like my favorite lullaby.
You bring me back to every high
When I am feeling low. You are
A reminder for everything that is far
But so close by and within a church.
You are everything that I search
For within the darkness. Your airiness ...
13 reads
3 Comments
Caithasno_backbone
Poem Published
Today 5:02am
Today 5:02am
Tattoos Of Life.
trigger warning: this poem does relate to self harm.
Scars are the Tattoos of life
We wear them for all to see
As they bare the all telling stories of our lives
Discoloration twines and winds across our skin, dancing whispers of our faults and sins
So, let them stare as they gawk and peer
They'll never understand what's within,
What's buried deep beneath the marks spread so thin
They see these blemishes and second guess our incisions
Let them jump to their conclusions and accusations
Let their eyes linger as their judgment becomes...
Scars are the Tattoos of life
We wear them for all to see
As they bare the all telling stories of our lives
Discoloration twines and winds across our skin, dancing whispers of our faults and sins
So, let them stare as they gawk and peer
They'll never understand what's within,
What's buried deep beneath the marks spread so thin
They see these blemishes and second guess our incisions
Let them jump to their conclusions and accusations
Let their eyes linger as their judgment becomes...
17 reads
1 Comment
poetryaccident
Poem Published
Today 3:22am
Today 3:22am
Empty Bed
Drops of water on the tongue
in the desert stretched too far
while in pools others swim
drenched to bone as I wilt
yearning for something more
than the drought of the flesh
greedy for just a taste
simple fare will do the trick
longing felt in the heart
all that’s left is dry desire
the chill wind has no foe
in wastelands of the soul
now the head rules the day
nights lay barren wanting more
seeking moisture to redeem
empty bed denying dreams.
© 2017. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20171020. ...
in the desert stretched too far
while in pools others swim
drenched to bone as I wilt
yearning for something more
than the drought of the flesh
greedy for just a taste
simple fare will do the trick
longing felt in the heart
all that’s left is dry desire
the chill wind has no foe
in wastelands of the soul
now the head rules the day
nights lay barren wanting more
seeking moisture to redeem
empty bed denying dreams.
© 2017. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20171020. ...
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Beautiful_Enigma
Poem Published
Today 2:43am
Today 2:43am
You Don't Realize There Was A Before Until You Step Into The After...
there is a time when you are broken
there is a time when you are healed
in the moment that they overlap
is the miracle
there is a time when you are healed
in the moment that they overlap
is the miracle
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Rayray-thepoet
Poem Published
Today 2:32am
Today 2:32am
Life is what you make it
I used to hate myself
Disgrace myself
I used to think,
"Dawg lately I just ain't myself"
My head aims high to the sky
And I praise,
"Lord when will I get some help?"
How can I save myself?
Because truth is I pray for help
I'm going down while feeling down
Feeling like a joke man but I ain't no clown
So confused
Man what do I do now?
Give up all hope
Surrender my crown?
No of course not but I must find my way back someway somehow...
That was then and this is now
Crazy how things happen dawg
I'm so...
Disgrace myself
I used to think,
"Dawg lately I just ain't myself"
My head aims high to the sky
And I praise,
"Lord when will I get some help?"
How can I save myself?
Because truth is I pray for help
I'm going down while feeling down
Feeling like a joke man but I ain't no clown
So confused
Man what do I do now?
Give up all hope
Surrender my crown?
No of course not but I must find my way back someway somehow...
That was then and this is now
Crazy how things happen dawg
I'm so...
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Xhrinic
Poem Published
Today 1:50am
Today 1:50am
Karma
he walked through his domain
buildings crumbled to sand
bodies of water shimmered
before disappearing in steam
karmic waves of destruction
roiled forth, ravaging the lands
as if for every injury and hurt
he had inflicted had come home
an invasion of emotions
scathed his landscapes
sundering pristine botanical
vistas and vacuuming away life
in place of this cyclical cleansing
could there ever be replacement
creaky mechanisms of a faulty being
his screams the only noise
within
a
lonely
...
buildings crumbled to sand
bodies of water shimmered
before disappearing in steam
karmic waves of destruction
roiled forth, ravaging the lands
as if for every injury and hurt
he had inflicted had come home
an invasion of emotions
scathed his landscapes
sundering pristine botanical
vistas and vacuuming away life
in place of this cyclical cleansing
could there ever be replacement
creaky mechanisms of a faulty being
his screams the only noise
within
a
lonely
...
12 reads
2 Comments
Xhrinic
Poem Published
Today 1:45am
Today 1:45am
Cryptic
gone
to space and back
out of orbit, back in touch
rough to handle, quick to bite
be careful of what you may find
hidden in these passages
intricate folds of the
mind
to space and back
out of orbit, back in touch
rough to handle, quick to bite
be careful of what you may find
hidden in these passages
intricate folds of the
mind
14 reads
2 Comments
gazellemon
Brad
Brad
Poem Published
Today 1:28am
Today 1:28am
Falling Out of Space inst. by Chuki Beats
falling out space
i can't feel my face
falling into place
i think i sealed my fate
best get out my way
leave the rest out of plays
repping my name
my weapons I aim
i'm ready to slay
shit
ready to pay
I fuck up the game
most spit the same
they stuck in lane
searching for fame
me?
i murder the frame
i heard the greats
I work with heavy weights
none of the fake
finessing the freight
i clear off my plate
no stopping to wait
go watch me make flows to stop the tape
so dope you...
i can't feel my face
falling into place
i think i sealed my fate
best get out my way
leave the rest out of plays
repping my name
my weapons I aim
i'm ready to slay
shit
ready to pay
I fuck up the game
most spit the same
they stuck in lane
searching for fame
me?
i murder the frame
i heard the greats
I work with heavy weights
none of the fake
finessing the freight
i clear off my plate
no stopping to wait
go watch me make flows to stop the tape
so dope you...
16 reads
0 Comments
Lookawaynow
Rose
Rose
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:36pm
Yesterday 11:36pm
Being a Bee
I wish I were a bumble bee
as busy as could be
I'd buzz my wings all day long
In "loving you" harmony
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Self Poems