Self Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself
Isgyppie_
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:15am
Yesterday 5:15am
Salvage
What has happened to my body is not my fault
How I reacted with my body is the consequence
That follows either me
Or you
But I don’t have to feel your grasp anymore
in the back of my mind,
Suppressed enough that I couldn’t see you,
But all you needed was a whisper
To possess my body
You did not just take it that day
You have taken it over and over again
Each day altering my mind
Recalibrating my nervous system
Convincing me I was never safe
I didn’t want to feel you again
I wish...
How I reacted with my body is the consequence
That follows either me
Or you
But I don’t have to feel your grasp anymore
in the back of my mind,
Suppressed enough that I couldn’t see you,
But all you needed was a whisper
To possess my body
You did not just take it that day
You have taken it over and over again
Each day altering my mind
Recalibrating my nervous system
Convincing me I was never safe
I didn’t want to feel you again
I wish...
#power
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3 Comments
Josiah
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:17am
Yesterday 3:17am
Tag
Warm summer's day
Outdoors with friends
Play tag, I'm it
Run through gardens
Cobblestone paths
Too young to sit
Carrying weight
Thrill of the chase
Trying my wit
Cut through the grass
Not watching where
Into black pit
Water above
Sunlight fading
Dark walls unlit
Glee to panic
Thrashing around
Life might acquit
Fear's encounter
My second time
Not yet close-knit
Breathing water
Not really
Choking a bit
Hands from heaven
Pull...
Outdoors with friends
Play tag, I'm it
Run through gardens
Cobblestone paths
Too young to sit
Carrying weight
Thrill of the chase
Trying my wit
Cut through the grass
Not watching where
Into black pit
Water above
Sunlight fading
Dark walls unlit
Glee to panic
Thrashing around
Life might acquit
Fear's encounter
My second time
Not yet close-knit
Breathing water
Not really
Choking a bit
Hands from heaven
Pull...
#anxiety
#childhood
#death
#fear
#NaPoWriMo2024
43 reads
1 Comment
Tallen
earth_empath
earth_empath
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:50am
Yesterday 2:50am
QUANTA
18/30
QUANTA
Got more than my daily dose
of vitamin “D”
which hurriedly knocked me
into a lackadaisical stupor
I did not feel like writing,
let alone, anything worth
accomplishing to
fruition
so I took me a lengthy nap
Woke up thinking about
the poker game
with the neighbors, yesterday
and 3 of us trying to
explain to one the
interaction (definition) of
Quantum Entanglement
with varied success.
I think she is still confused
61...
QUANTA
Got more than my daily dose
of vitamin “D”
which hurriedly knocked me
into a lackadaisical stupor
I did not feel like writing,
let alone, anything worth
accomplishing to
fruition
so I took me a lengthy nap
Woke up thinking about
the poker game
with the neighbors, yesterday
and 3 of us trying to
explain to one the
interaction (definition) of
Quantum Entanglement
with varied success.
I think she is still confused
61...
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2024
35 reads
1 Comment
The_Darkness_Insid
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 11:59pm
18th Apr 2024 11:59pm
Hope
Where are you now?
I need to find you
And since I am sharing
Im losing my mind too
Dont know why I wake up
My lifes spiraling down
Im missing the one that can turn it around
I pushed you aside
I built up a wall
To protect myself
From the pain of the fall
Are you still there?
Starved from not being fed?
If I tear down this wall would i find you there dead?
I don't deserve it
But could use you right now
The way I treated you
Can you forgive me somehow?
Cuz I'm struggling...
I need to find you
And since I am sharing
Im losing my mind too
Dont know why I wake up
My lifes spiraling down
Im missing the one that can turn it around
I pushed you aside
I built up a wall
To protect myself
From the pain of the fall
Are you still there?
Starved from not being fed?
If I tear down this wall would i find you there dead?
I don't deserve it
But could use you right now
The way I treated you
Can you forgive me somehow?
Cuz I'm struggling...
#depression
#despair
50 reads
2 Comments
Lilliputian
snwlilly
snwlilly
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 8:19pm
18th Apr 2024 8:19pm
Frozen in Motion
Leaden gray sky weeps
Pitter patter of the rain
A chill wind bites
Lost senses, wandering gaze
People living on
Yet, here, i froze
Imprisoned within
Stuck in a loop
That strangles my breath
Its weight, oh so heavy
Making me break instead
Whispers that hold me down
Ghosts that haunt me down
Lost in my own path
Aching for a light to pierce through
Pitter patter of the rain
A chill wind bites
Lost senses, wandering gaze
People living on
Yet, here, i froze
Imprisoned within
Stuck in a loop
That strangles my breath
Its weight, oh so heavy
Making me break instead
Whispers that hold me down
Ghosts that haunt me down
Lost in my own path
Aching for a light to pierce through
#despair
#FeelingLost
#loneliness
28 reads
1 Comment
Isgyppie_
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 8:12pm
18th Apr 2024 8:12pm
Significant
It is not what I have been through
That holds me down
It is what I have done
In reaction to it
And the shame
Of my decisions have kept me
Removed
Rather than actively trying
To correct
I thought if I hid from society
I was doing everyone a favor
Banishing myself because
I didn’t believe I deserved to
Take up space
Minimizing not only my consumption
But also my weight
Keeping small
Enough
To not
Be
Seen
...
That holds me down
It is what I have done
In reaction to it
And the shame
Of my decisions have kept me
Removed
Rather than actively trying
To correct
I thought if I hid from society
I was doing everyone a favor
Banishing myself because
I didn’t believe I deserved to
Take up space
Minimizing not only my consumption
But also my weight
Keeping small
Enough
To not
Be
Seen
...
#NaPoWriMo2024
36 reads
6 Comments
nightbirdblue
enbyblue
enbyblue
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 5:51pm
18th Apr 2024 5:51pm
Invisible Illness
lost the words
lost the time
stepping out of reality
stepping out of rhyme
struggle to find
the rules don’t apply
my mind
does not
comply
trying to define
something you can’t see
how to describe
invisibility
under gravity
these laws of
normality
circumvent me
sentience
swept aside
it is here I reside
slowly losing time
to this
mental illness
lost the time
stepping out of reality
stepping out of rhyme
struggle to find
the rules don’t apply
my mind
does not
comply
trying to define
something you can’t see
how to describe
invisibility
under gravity
these laws of
normality
circumvent me
sentience
swept aside
it is here I reside
slowly losing time
to this
mental illness
#depression
#emptiness
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
49 reads
4 Comments
Duende
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 3:00pm
18th Apr 2024 3:00pm
Broken Girl
at first it looks like
i'm a confident and
independent lady
while deep inside
there is this lonely
little girl who has
never felt loved
at times all that
she wants is for
someone to take
her hand, guide
her and lead her
through the battle
fields called life
show her the way
protect her tell her
she'll be okay, that
she's safe, that she
is and will always be
perfect exactly as she is
i'm a confident and
independent lady
while deep inside
there is this lonely
little girl who has
never felt loved
at times all that
she wants is for
someone to take
her hand, guide
her and lead her
through the battle
fields called life
show her the way
protect her tell her
she'll be okay, that
she's safe, that she
is and will always be
perfect exactly as she is
#inspirational
#women
65 reads
24 Comments
Sunderish
Arcto.
Arcto.
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 2:58pm
18th Apr 2024 2:58pm
Sociopath.
What do they understand?
Why do they assume we’re all the same?
There’s something dark in me
‘Something that shouldn’t be released
For their own good, I attempt to leave
They don’t see my smile, the way I do
It’s meant to make you fall in
It’s meant to allure you,
so I can shred you with my own teeth.
My kindness, is a facade, my innocence
Created to play with you.
I often wonder why God, gave me this ability
I just want to love, to comfort
Unintentionally, I hurt.
I seek to harm.
Pretending to offer a warm hug,...
Why do they assume we’re all the same?
There’s something dark in me
‘Something that shouldn’t be released
For their own good, I attempt to leave
They don’t see my smile, the way I do
It’s meant to make you fall in
It’s meant to allure you,
so I can shred you with my own teeth.
My kindness, is a facade, my innocence
Created to play with you.
I often wonder why God, gave me this ability
I just want to love, to comfort
Unintentionally, I hurt.
I seek to harm.
Pretending to offer a warm hug,...
#dark
#despair
#disappointment #frustration
#disappointment #frustration
28 reads
beanbandit
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 2:19pm
18th Apr 2024 2:19pm
Glad
And if that day done came my kids don't fuck with me?..
I'm glad
Cause who the fuck am I ?
gone call myself trying to be a dad?
Done fought against abortions,
ain't ask if they wanted be here,
and never did I consider that without them meant the mirror
My kids without the me, that's unseen, but that's the real
And if they really was my end, then what the fuck I'm doing here?
I'm glad
Cause who the fuck am I ?
gone call myself trying to be a dad?
Done fought against abortions,
ain't ask if they wanted be here,
and never did I consider that without them meant the mirror
My kids without the me, that's unseen, but that's the real
And if they really was my end, then what the fuck I'm doing here?
#childhood
#loneliness
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WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 12:15pm
18th Apr 2024 12:15pm
labyrinth
18 of 30
I've been exploring the labyrinthine maze of my soul
following each path to see where it goes
yeah...there's a lot of tragic crap in my past
but a lot more than that went into my forming
pain is just a fragment of what made me who I am
but I need to know all my facets
the beauty as well as the ugly
how they developed & if they're potentially cracking
which tears eroded into deep trenches
what fuel does it take to ignite my passionate sparks
keeping my feet in a forwardly direction
I move along...
I've been exploring the labyrinthine maze of my soul
following each path to see where it goes
yeah...there's a lot of tragic crap in my past
but a lot more than that went into my forming
pain is just a fragment of what made me who I am
but I need to know all my facets
the beauty as well as the ugly
how they developed & if they're potentially cracking
which tears eroded into deep trenches
what fuel does it take to ignite my passionate sparks
keeping my feet in a forwardly direction
I move along...
#confessional
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfReflection
41 reads
4 Comments
Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 11:18am
18th Apr 2024 11:18am
Rose Vines
I was looking in my gold mirror.
Vines around it,rose bushes nearby.
With thorns,I did not know how or why.
The roses on the bushes are red.
Maybe if I had a prettier stem or better leaves.
And my needs feel like they haven't been read properly.
I always thought of myself as a flower.
But if I could be a red rose,I would have so much power.
Maybe if I did not have any thorns.
Or if I could remove my differences and horns.
Maybe if I dyed my petals red.
Would that make things better?
Alas,I hope...
Vines around it,rose bushes nearby.
With thorns,I did not know how or why.
The roses on the bushes are red.
Maybe if I had a prettier stem or better leaves.
And my needs feel like they haven't been read properly.
I always thought of myself as a flower.
But if I could be a red rose,I would have so much power.
Maybe if I did not have any thorns.
Or if I could remove my differences and horns.
Maybe if I dyed my petals red.
Would that make things better?
Alas,I hope...
#hope
#sadness
#uplifting
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