Long Self Poems
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Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself - Long poems (300 words or more), most recently posted poems first.
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
Today 8:59am
Today 8:59am
Dead People
Hopscotch jumping, skipping rope. To me the voices
of pals up the street, the sound of our shoes scraping
on the playground blacktop repeating nursery rhymes.
In my mind’s eye that echo’d in the center of my scope
With marbles & spinning tops, dodgeball in the sun,
swinging on the rings, flying high in the stirrups.
And crayons & coloring books. I didn’t know of rhyme.
Just coloring within the lines kept me out of trouble,
turning Winnie the Poo & Tigger into paper...
of pals up the street, the sound of our shoes scraping
on the playground blacktop repeating nursery rhymes.
In my mind’s eye that echo’d in the center of my scope
With marbles & spinning tops, dodgeball in the sun,
swinging on the rings, flying high in the stirrups.
And crayons & coloring books. I didn’t know of rhyme.
Just coloring within the lines kept me out of trouble,
turning Winnie the Poo & Tigger into paper...
#childhood
#memories
#freedom #art
#freedom #art
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Blackwolf
Poem Published
Today 3:35am
Today 3:35am
I Graduated From f**k U. I Am Not A Number
Take A Number ;
I Refused , As I Always Have And Always Will ;
"I Am More Than That I Know I Am"
I Never Was In The Military ;
I Refuse To Blindly Obey ;
I Never Went To College , Purposefully ;
I Was Never Indoctrinated With Greek Ideals Or Thoughtframes ;
You Try To Tell Me What To Do , I Will Rebel , And Rip You A New
Asshole As Wide As You Can Open Your Foolish Mouth , Or Wider ;
You Threaten Me With Reason And Law ?
I Shall Invoke The Holy And...
I Refused , As I Always Have And Always Will ;
"I Am More Than That I Know I Am"
I Never Was In The Military ;
I Refuse To Blindly Obey ;
I Never Went To College , Purposefully ;
I Was Never Indoctrinated With Greek Ideals Or Thoughtframes ;
You Try To Tell Me What To Do , I Will Rebel , And Rip You A New
Asshole As Wide As You Can Open Your Foolish Mouth , Or Wider ;
You Threaten Me With Reason And Law ?
I Shall Invoke The Holy And...
#identity
#power
#freedom
#HumanRights
#culture
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6 Comments
Cyndi_Moone
Poem Published
17th Jun 2018 4:09am
17th Jun 2018 4:09am
UNRESOLVED MYSTERY
A puzzle I am even unto myself…a mystery not even I can resolve.
I have never understood why I do or act the way I do…the mystery never dissolves
With every leap I take into a brand new day
I blow myself away
Thinking and over-thinking, analyzing and configuring myself like an unsolvable equation
I’ve shot prayers up to the heavens asking the Almighty to explain, awaiting with anticipation
For answers never answered…not even by the Almighty One.
So, I’ve re-traced my footprints paved across the miles of my history and found...
I have never understood why I do or act the way I do…the mystery never dissolves
With every leap I take into a brand new day
I blow myself away
Thinking and over-thinking, analyzing and configuring myself like an unsolvable equation
I’ve shot prayers up to the heavens asking the Almighty to explain, awaiting with anticipation
For answers never answered…not even by the Almighty One.
So, I’ve re-traced my footprints paved across the miles of my history and found...
#loneliness
#identity
#confusion
#SelfReflection
#emptiness
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george4man2box
Poem Published
14th Jun 2018 7:42am
14th Jun 2018 7:42am
Genesis Of Thoughts
Narrow and shallow shining laser focus
into chasm while teetering on brink
akin to scurrying thru microcosmic burrow
of microscopic Manhattan skyscrapers
wink'n nod and blink,
this ace of spades heart (diamond
in the rough) poet digs club billy shallow
sometimes forced to spelunk
thru crawl space chink
hunting down gamesome dodging
catlike whim elusively outpaced,
yet webbed, whorled wide net
nonetheless doth cap cha alive
agile adept idealized rat fink,
...
into chasm while teetering on brink
akin to scurrying thru microcosmic burrow
of microscopic Manhattan skyscrapers
wink'n nod and blink,
this ace of spades heart (diamond
in the rough) poet digs club billy shallow
sometimes forced to spelunk
thru crawl space chink
hunting down gamesome dodging
catlike whim elusively outpaced,
yet webbed, whorled wide net
nonetheless doth cap cha alive
agile adept idealized rat fink,
...
#happiness
#strength
#hope
#motivational
#inspirational
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BigVirge
Poem Published
14th Jun 2018 1:54am
14th Jun 2018 1:54am
"Active" ... A poem written by Big Virge 6/12/2013
Ya Know …..
They say … when you age …
That … you should … Stay …
….. " ACTIVE " …… !!!!! ……
Now … " Physically " …
That makes … sense to me …
But ….
NOT IF … " Mentally " …
Your Mind State's … "Captive" … !!!!!
"Reactive" … and … " Lacking " …
In Thoughts … " Attracting " …
A … " Balanced " … Life …
in … " Body and Mind " …
So …..
I KEEP … Mine …
" As in " … My Brain … !!!
" Active " … and inclined …
to ….. " elevATE " ….. !!!!!!!
and therefore...
They say … when you age …
That … you should … Stay …
….. " ACTIVE " …… !!!!! ……
Now … " Physically " …
That makes … sense to me …
But ….
NOT IF … " Mentally " …
Your Mind State's … "Captive" … !!!!!
"Reactive" … and … " Lacking " …
In Thoughts … " Attracting " …
A … " Balanced " … Life …
in … " Body and Mind " …
So …..
I KEEP … Mine …
" As in " … My Brain … !!!
" Active " … and inclined …
to ….. " elevATE " ….. !!!!!!!
and therefore...
#strength
#motivational
#PowerOfWords #aging
#PowerOfWords #aging
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jidoski365
Poem Published
14th Jun 2018 00:58am
14th Jun 2018 00:58am
I AM ME
I am me
I am me
I am me
But he doesn't know me
Although close to me
A multi faceted being is me
That I have become
Come closer, you will see all in me
Tis what others see
Most they see is inborn in me
This is me, a peculiar being
He made me so
In me it flows
In me He flows
He told me so
Be told I am that being, I am me
Learn from me as I did from him
He sent him to me so that I can be me
Let me mentor you
He mentored me
Now you can see how I became me
He...
I am me
I am me
But he doesn't know me
Although close to me
A multi faceted being is me
That I have become
Come closer, you will see all in me
Tis what others see
Most they see is inborn in me
This is me, a peculiar being
He made me so
In me it flows
In me He flows
He told me so
Be told I am that being, I am me
Learn from me as I did from him
He sent him to me so that I can be me
Let me mentor you
He mentored me
Now you can see how I became me
He...
#narrative
#prose
#LifeAsAWriter #myself
#LifeAsAWriter #myself
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george4man2box
Poem Published
12th Jun 2018 11:06pm
12th Jun 2018 11:06pm
Inexplicable Quirky Memory Unhinged
A rhetorical question finds me ask
king (to no one in particular) why I bask
with recollection the names of blank
exclamatory staid grade school crank
key teachers approximately
42,0480,000 breaths aye drank
fifty years ago (most whose names frank
lee listed below),
when the need to access
and retrieve
immediate necessary information
analogously interleaved
among axial bracts
during examinations relegated
as hopelessly lost
into interstitial invisible cranial cracks
...
king (to no one in particular) why I bask
with recollection the names of blank
exclamatory staid grade school crank
key teachers approximately
42,0480,000 breaths aye drank
fifty years ago (most whose names frank
lee listed below),
when the need to access
and retrieve
immediate necessary information
analogously interleaved
among axial bracts
during examinations relegated
as hopelessly lost
into interstitial invisible cranial cracks
...
#strength
#hope
#bullying
#gratitude
#FeelingLost
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StreetRabbit
Poem Published
12th Jun 2018 4:30pm
12th Jun 2018 4:30pm
Take This Mirror
It's like a gamble to do what's right
You chose the path of least resistance
You thought you could be a low-key delinquent
That no one would ever really see the difference
But inside of you began to breed division
And with time you began to kinda seem indifferent
And now that you're on your own
It's become plain to see that you're mentally imprisoned
You better get up on your feet and run home, my friend
If you wanna find yourself and be whole again
Coz the pain and the shame in your brain and your veins
Are a strain that are eating at...
You chose the path of least resistance
You thought you could be a low-key delinquent
That no one would ever really see the difference
But inside of you began to breed division
And with time you began to kinda seem indifferent
And now that you're on your own
It's become plain to see that you're mentally imprisoned
You better get up on your feet and run home, my friend
If you wanna find yourself and be whole again
Coz the pain and the shame in your brain and your veins
Are a strain that are eating at...
#mirror
#learning
#SelfReflection #MovingOn
#SelfReflection #MovingOn
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george4man2box
Poem Published
12th Jun 2018 8:03am
12th Jun 2018 8:03am
Vagaries Of An Unknown Methacton High School...
Nineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni
Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
must be fast at work
cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force
donning, housing, loosing,
plying, and trumpeting greater guile
then this schmart ass threadbare
stock king chap named Lisle.
Damn frightful how years
pinwheel into decades
I hate to accept reality
a half century plus ix orbitz
leaving waked webbing stirring frayed
marked age of mortal
named Matthew Scott Harris jade ...
Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
must be fast at work
cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force
donning, housing, loosing,
plying, and trumpeting greater guile
then this schmart ass threadbare
stock king chap named Lisle.
Damn frightful how years
pinwheel into decades
I hate to accept reality
a half century plus ix orbitz
leaving waked webbing stirring frayed
marked age of mortal
named Matthew Scott Harris jade ...
#anxiety
#regret
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
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MUSOREREAGAN
Poem Published
10th Jun 2018 6:46am
10th Jun 2018 6:46am
HOW COULD YOU LEAVE US
Giving in for lust..
Leaving out your blood,
Opposing humanity,
Pretending like,
We are not your own blood.
That very day,
Sitting in my bedroom,
Staring at the ceiling,
With sorrowful tears down my heart,
Wondering what we did,
To deserve such a betray.
Your own blood,
We are so challenged by life,
Due to the gap brought in by you,
Though i was a young kid,
Seeming not to understand,
What the scenario was..
We are wholeheartedly injured,
I am full of unhealing scars.....
Leaving out your blood,
Opposing humanity,
Pretending like,
We are not your own blood.
That very day,
Sitting in my bedroom,
Staring at the ceiling,
With sorrowful tears down my heart,
Wondering what we did,
To deserve such a betray.
Your own blood,
We are so challenged by life,
Due to the gap brought in by you,
Though i was a young kid,
Seeming not to understand,
What the scenario was..
We are wholeheartedly injured,
I am full of unhealing scars.....
#heartbroken
#LifeChangingMoment
25 reads
2 Comments
smileykiller59
Poem Published
5th Jun 2018 3:28am
5th Jun 2018 3:28am
strait from my heart
i know im going to have alot of mistakes in this and that it wont even look like a poem.
but right now my bubbi is laying by my feet. hes calmly sleeping and not beggingg to go to my parents room. he rarley likes to play anymore.
he rarley eats anymore..
he dosnt chase after me when i call his name.. he just plops down and looks at me with a sad look in his eyes.
everyone is telling me hes going to be alright.. but deep down i know every second now counts..
we are his whole life.
the people he lived with sience he was a puppy..
the people who trained him...
but right now my bubbi is laying by my feet. hes calmly sleeping and not beggingg to go to my parents room. he rarley likes to play anymore.
he rarley eats anymore..
he dosnt chase after me when i call his name.. he just plops down and looks at me with a sad look in his eyes.
everyone is telling me hes going to be alright.. but deep down i know every second now counts..
we are his whole life.
the people he lived with sience he was a puppy..
the people who trained him...
#sadness
#depression
#grief
#loneliness
#animals
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1 Comment
Trouble_Loves_Me
Poem Published
3rd Jun 2018 1:14am
3rd Jun 2018 1:14am
North By North West
I can't ever understand
Why my life's, been cursed, poisoned, condemned
When I been tryin' every night
To hold ya near me
But I'm a-telling you
It ain't easy
New York Dolls, ‘Subway Train’
North
We have undressed each other
Naked beyond the words we
Spilt & suck & surrender
To miscibility of our private alphabet.
Stream of spectral travellers
Stones in pockets drag thru’ haunted lake
Lay skeletal fingers across temples >
Temporal ritual, sacrificial throat slitting
Abattoir...
Why my life's, been cursed, poisoned, condemned
When I been tryin' every night
To hold ya near me
But I'm a-telling you
It ain't easy
New York Dolls, ‘Subway Train’
North
We have undressed each other
Naked beyond the words we
Spilt & suck & surrender
To miscibility of our private alphabet.
Stream of spectral travellers
Stones in pockets drag thru’ haunted lake
Lay skeletal fingers across temples >
Temporal ritual, sacrificial throat slitting
Abattoir...
#love
#redemption
#LongDistanceRelationship
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2 Comments
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