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.
goldenmyst
Poem Published
Today 7:41pm
Today 7:41pm
Rainy Streets
Rainy Streets
Friends washed out to sea
So like a dream upon waking
Yet so real as an apartment
Where quiet gathers like spirits
Whose memory sings to a Celtic beat
Soft as a lullaby on rainy streets
Where babies wail and widowers cry
Friends washed out to sea
So like a dream upon waking
Yet so real as an apartment
Where quiet gathers like spirits
Whose memory sings to a Celtic beat
Soft as a lullaby on rainy streets
Where babies wail and widowers cry
#depression
#grief
#loneliness
#death
#memories
9 reads
4 Comments
Honoria
Poem Published
Today 5:31pm
Today 5:31pm
Knockout!
14/30
Mental Vs. Physical
It went round and round
All and sundry wondering
Which would fall first
The call was close from the start
Mental came out swinging-
A little too early with dancing feet
Physical took a couple of swift
South paws to the chest
Yet stayed upright and in the fight
Psyche messed about with Mental
Pain tore up Physical and
Round four nearly ended both
Eyes locked on each other
Each desperately trying to win
Went down simultaneously
The Referee...
Mental Vs. Physical
It went round and round
All and sundry wondering
Which would fall first
The call was close from the start
Mental came out swinging-
A little too early with dancing feet
Physical took a couple of swift
South paws to the chest
Yet stayed upright and in the fight
Psyche messed about with Mental
Pain tore up Physical and
Round four nearly ended both
Eyes locked on each other
Each desperately trying to win
Went down simultaneously
The Referee...
#illness
#frustration
#NaPoWriMo2021
22 reads
1 Comment
Kimacrylic
Poem Published
Today 12:55pm
Today 12:55pm
Body Positivity
#anger
#dark
#shame
#frustration
#bittersweet
8 reads
0 Comments
Deepblue
Lexi M
Lexi M
Poem Published
Today 10:54am
Today 10:54am
One day
One day I'll disappear
just vanish into the darkness
It encompasses me,
surrounding me
just like before
I am aware of my sins
I'm the one who
created them
I have backed myself
into that old familiar
corner lying there
wondering just who
I am.
When will I learn that
there is no true happiness
Only the past faded memories
placed into a frame
I keep beside my bed.
Holding a hand does not
make me strong
Only the semblance of a dying
crushed hope
someone tried to give
Giving myself...
just vanish into the darkness
It encompasses me,
surrounding me
just like before
I am aware of my sins
I'm the one who
created them
I have backed myself
into that old familiar
corner lying there
wondering just who
I am.
When will I learn that
there is no true happiness
Only the past faded memories
placed into a frame
I keep beside my bed.
Holding a hand does not
make me strong
Only the semblance of a dying
crushed hope
someone tried to give
Giving myself...
#confusion
#FeelingLost
#choices
20 reads
9 Comments
Eerie
Poem Published
Today 5:31am
Today 5:31am
Sarcasm Comes Standard
If I had know that life
was going to fuck me,
I’d have worn the good lipstick.
was going to fuck me,
I’d have worn the good lipstick.
#TruthOfLife
20 reads
Backmomentarily
Poem Published
Today 1:41am
Today 1:41am
Dolls
The flank pavement headed into the night
while the air cut razor thin and my way of life jostled with green stalks
so I waited; germinated for peace from the storm
running through the flaxen fields of corn
where the idea of dolls were born from an incidental heritage part nature part ferocity and
it became my salvation.
while the air cut razor thin and my way of life jostled with green stalks
so I waited; germinated for peace from the storm
running through the flaxen fields of corn
where the idea of dolls were born from an incidental heritage part nature part ferocity and
it became my salvation.
#nature
#metaphor
10 reads
0 Comments
Yellow_Oracle
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:44am
Yesterday 00:44am
IMPULSIVE
In constant need of an adrenaline rush
Most days are unpredictable
Pausing for no one
Unable to control my actions
Looking forward to bad decisions
Storm cloud thoughts
Ignoring my declining mental state
Vague sense of reality
End of all personal relationships
Most days are unpredictable
Pausing for no one
Unable to control my actions
Looking forward to bad decisions
Storm cloud thoughts
Ignoring my declining mental state
Vague sense of reality
End of all personal relationships
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#PTSD
#temptation
10 reads
1 Comment
Eerie
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:41pm
Yesterday 11:41pm
The Happiest Things
Smelling lilies, peonies and lilacs
on a balmy day.
Steaming cup of honey
turmeric tea.
Ari's baby laugh.
Sunshine warming my skin: moonlight
through treetop canopy.
Forrest walks for nature bathing: salty
sea air. Quiet country cemeteries.
Your smile when days are cloudy.
Writing poetry.
Happiness comes in many packages.
on a balmy day.
Steaming cup of honey
turmeric tea.
Ari's baby laugh.
Sunshine warming my skin: moonlight
through treetop canopy.
Forrest walks for nature bathing: salty
sea air. Quiet country cemeteries.
Your smile when days are cloudy.
Writing poetry.
Happiness comes in many packages.
#happiness
#NaPoWriMo2021
26 reads
7 Comments
Kaylor1967
Ruben
Ruben
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:03pm
Yesterday 8:03pm
The mentality of hell.
At the back of your house....
We’ve got big plans.
Kissing hard.
Slipping hands.
Celebrating closeness.
Please....!
Tear my fucking heart out!
I want to feel something more.
I want to know I’m alive......
In the fields out of view.
Whisper dirt as you flirt.
We can agree an accord.
To never leave this place
Only to burn brightly in our lust.
Reaching the summit of depravity.
My dark soul companion...we can!
You look to me and we explode.
Our chemicals react wildly in the melee. ...
We’ve got big plans.
Kissing hard.
Slipping hands.
Celebrating closeness.
Please....!
Tear my fucking heart out!
I want to feel something more.
I want to know I’m alive......
In the fields out of view.
Whisper dirt as you flirt.
We can agree an accord.
To never leave this place
Only to burn brightly in our lust.
Reaching the summit of depravity.
My dark soul companion...we can!
You look to me and we explode.
Our chemicals react wildly in the melee. ...
#death
#MentalHealth
#hell
17 reads
4 Comments
Penguinphile
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:05pm
Yesterday 6:05pm
Not So Cool
Today, I was told, I am cool. I don't think cool is the word people would associate with me. I think people would consider me obnoxious, obstinate, arrogant, self-righteous probably, maybe just maybe also shy, I am/can be shy. I don't really greet people I know with enthusiasm or warmth, I am not too polite or charming. I never really manage to tell what I think, by the time I understand what I think the time is long gone to tell. I struggle to know/understand what I feel, actually. I look back at some things and think about how I felt at the time, but.. when it's happening, I don't have any...
#myself
#SelfReflection
11 reads
2 Comments
u53l355
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:10pm
Yesterday 3:10pm
The silver lining
Clouded thoughts clearing as my mind begins to open , realising I often speak with no filter to determine someones reaction as the twisted words that leave my mouth leave cringes on the faces of those who have given me a chance of interaction
I'm starting to question my motivation
A quest for attention has lead me to this life of solitude , of course people can't take a joke when the humour isn't funny , people have backgrounds and pasts and all these years I've acted like it's a joke !
Just because I don't take anything to heart , just because I have been...
I'm starting to question my motivation
A quest for attention has lead me to this life of solitude , of course people can't take a joke when the humour isn't funny , people have backgrounds and pasts and all these years I've acted like it's a joke !
Just because I don't take anything to heart , just because I have been...
#depression
#regret
#loneliness
#ImSorry
#suicide
10 reads
0 Comments
da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:09am
Yesterday 5:09am
Double Dee
With dexterity & duplicity, I'm reaching for the stars
Shining bright ambidextrously with free poetic bars
So from afar, wherever you are, they'll remain on your mental
Staying retained in your brain like something elemental
Keeping it plain & simple like unlettered lexicons
I can also get spiritual like biblical Psalms
Like the calm before the storm, I can be eerily silent
But a poem gives my thoughts form whenever I write it
Like State Farm I perform discount double checks
So what I spew and you view can be easily fact...
Shining bright ambidextrously with free poetic bars
So from afar, wherever you are, they'll remain on your mental
Staying retained in your brain like something elemental
Keeping it plain & simple like unlettered lexicons
I can also get spiritual like biblical Psalms
Like the calm before the storm, I can be eerily silent
But a poem gives my thoughts form whenever I write it
Like State Farm I perform discount double checks
So what I spew and you view can be easily fact...
#WritingPoetry
13 reads
1 Comment
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