Self Poems by Members Last Online
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself
Poems published by members most recently online.
Being Me
Looking for truth
and art of being me
in my inner sanctum
not rug runners
that gather mistrust
looking at my reflection
and not a twisted dream
using a handheld mirror
and common sense
and art of being me
in my inner sanctum
not rug runners
that gather mistrust
looking at my reflection
and not a twisted dream
using a handheld mirror
and common sense
#happiness
#strength
#emotions
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6 Comments
Coconut Cream Cocktail Hour
Coconut Cream Cocktail Hour
A fleet of clouds gathers offshore
Like Spanish galleons
But crystal blue sky powder
Rules the beach with cool breezes
As days turn into years
And Cozumel coconut cream pie
Melts in my heart like memories in the afternoon
Of when I was young and foolhardy enough
To tempt fate
By swimming far out to sea
On cold windswept beachcombers
Of the Maine beach
Daring Poseidon to show his wrath
But was spared and thankfully lived to tell the tale
As the memory of Neptune’s mercy ...
A fleet of clouds gathers offshore
Like Spanish galleons
But crystal blue sky powder
Rules the beach with cool breezes
As days turn into years
And Cozumel coconut cream pie
Melts in my heart like memories in the afternoon
Of when I was young and foolhardy enough
To tempt fate
By swimming far out to sea
On cold windswept beachcombers
Of the Maine beach
Daring Poseidon to show his wrath
But was spared and thankfully lived to tell the tale
As the memory of Neptune’s mercy ...
#dreams
#sea
#rebirth #TimeHeals
#rebirth #TimeHeals
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2 Comments
Selfdom
Mirror's reflection doesn't tell my story
#SixWordStory
#minimalist
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4 Comments
On ...Off ...Tell me Another...Cut the Crap !!
That's my new expression
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#consumerism
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
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32 Comments
Soul Gathered
We are pain, agonizing
Brutal, dripping in agony
Darkened needs labeled fetishes
And that's okay if fetishes are what we are
The need to be as we are
It is so deep it's ingrained, it's a soul
It's a symbiosis that needs to be fed
for it amplifies our everything
As we said the darkness oozes and drips
Like chocolate icing poured over a chocolate cake
To watch is to become one
To want, to hunger, to need
The pain, the pain that is wrapped
That is wrapped in torture, that is wrapped in love
That is wrapped...
Brutal, dripping in agony
Darkened needs labeled fetishes
And that's okay if fetishes are what we are
The need to be as we are
It is so deep it's ingrained, it's a soul
It's a symbiosis that needs to be fed
for it amplifies our everything
As we said the darkness oozes and drips
Like chocolate icing poured over a chocolate cake
To watch is to become one
To want, to hunger, to need
The pain, the pain that is wrapped
That is wrapped in torture, that is wrapped in love
That is wrapped...
#love
#dark
#hurt
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5 Comments
double take
the worst part of being
65 is that you don't worry
about relationships anymore
the best part of being
65 is that you don't worry
about relationships anymore
65 is that you don't worry
about relationships anymore
the best part of being
65 is that you don't worry
about relationships anymore
#funny
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9 Comments
Just Testing The Winds Of Time...
I am testing the unbalanced lightning effect on this last introduction video during my traveling blog, I was in the parking lot of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
From this day going forward, a three week much needed vacation, no patients, not scheduled to be on nightly on call, no call center calls in the middle of the night for medication refills, no televisits, no DON duties, no payroll to complete, no hiding out from persistent whining physicians, no pager on my hip, no overhead pages to the triage desk, oh God yes...
I am going deep...
From this day going forward, a three week much needed vacation, no patients, not scheduled to be on nightly on call, no call center calls in the middle of the night for medication refills, no televisits, no DON duties, no payroll to complete, no hiding out from persistent whining physicians, no pager on my hip, no overhead pages to the triage desk, oh God yes...
I am going deep...
#travel
#passion
#ThrillSeeking
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3 Comments
Purple Rose
There is a purple rose
in a field of red
Commands more attention
than those ever said.
There have been
Songs
Poems
Lyrics
And letters
of the red rose
My heart bleeds
for the purple instead.
I know how it feels
To be alone
Blooming in a field
that’s overgrown.
Are they blind
Can they not see
The purple rose
Is here
See
Still, no one knew
I called and cried
“HERE I AM”
No one hears the tears inside.
So I stand tall
Back erect
Eyes to the sky
Watching...
in a field of red
Commands more attention
than those ever said.
There have been
Songs
Poems
Lyrics
And letters
of the red rose
My heart bleeds
for the purple instead.
I know how it feels
To be alone
Blooming in a field
that’s overgrown.
Are they blind
Can they not see
The purple rose
Is here
See
Still, no one knew
I called and cried
“HERE I AM”
No one hears the tears inside.
So I stand tall
Back erect
Eyes to the sky
Watching...
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
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10 Comments
Journey to the Stars
There are no more holes
to bury secrets.
Standing in the chasm between
body and spirit, I am unbroken.
Taking back my time, my being,
my every last piece that once was dismantled,
walking into a new life
here, or into another dimension
replete with love:
this is the measure of life.
Emerging in starlight as
dust to earth
heat to fire
breath to air
weightless to water.
My journey to the stars
may be long…
But it is healing.
to bury secrets.
Standing in the chasm between
body and spirit, I am unbroken.
Taking back my time, my being,
my every last piece that once was dismantled,
walking into a new life
here, or into another dimension
replete with love:
this is the measure of life.
Emerging in starlight as
dust to earth
heat to fire
breath to air
weightless to water.
My journey to the stars
may be long…
But it is healing.
#death
#stars
#TruthOfLife #LifeCycle
#TruthOfLife #LifeCycle
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7 Comments
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
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6 Comments
Disorganized Attachment and BPD, the Beast Within
Intensely craving
What I’m viscerally
Afraid of
Your offered safety
Becomes a threat
Distrust
Idealization
Sabotage
Fear of abandonment
Impulsivity
Chronic emptiness
Shifting identity
Learning balance
Has been a long
Process
I’m not a quiet storm
My love and anger
Intensely passionate
Often misplaced
I’ve blamed life, others
For the things
I’m afraid of
When what I feared most
Was myself
What I’m viscerally
Afraid of
Your offered safety
Becomes a threat
Distrust
Idealization
Sabotage
Fear of abandonment
Impulsivity
Chronic emptiness
Shifting identity
Learning balance
Has been a long
Process
I’m not a quiet storm
My love and anger
Intensely passionate
Often misplaced
I’ve blamed life, others
For the things
I’m afraid of
When what I feared most
Was myself
#confessional
#MentalHealth
#acceptance #fear
#acceptance #fear
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30 Comments
The Woman You See
Ever the happy-go-lucky child
Idyllic upbringing into womanhood
Strong and self assured
Or
The façade of such a person
Checking off each passing day
Akin to the doomed Iphigenia
With no
fairy godmother
to
rescue
her
Idyllic upbringing into womanhood
Strong and self assured
Or
The façade of such a person
Checking off each passing day
Akin to the doomed Iphigenia
With no
fairy godmother
to
rescue
her
#sadness
#loneliness
#SelfReflection #sacrifice
#SelfReflection #sacrifice
772 reads
88 Comments
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