Popular Self Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself
Popular poems, listed in order of their popularity this month.
Ahavati
Poem Published
1st Feb 2019 2:45pm
1st Feb 2019 2:45pm
Anatomy of Family
When I was little, I didn't understand
how part of something could die
while the rest flourished: a tree limb
tiger lily, blackberry bush—and so
forth.
Growing up a gardner, I grew acutely aware
of pruning as a necessity for dying parts
to give the remainder of plantlife
the greatest chance to survive—
At 13, I learned this about humans:
my mother became terminally ill;
they severed nerves to give her body
fighting hope to exist without pain ...
how part of something could die
while the rest flourished: a tree limb
tiger lily, blackberry bush—and so
forth.
Growing up a gardner, I grew acutely aware
of pruning as a necessity for dying parts
to give the remainder of plantlife
the greatest chance to survive—
At 13, I learned this about humans:
my mother became terminally ill;
they severed nerves to give her body
fighting hope to exist without pain ...
#family
#death
#LifeCycle
#historical
#philosophical
171 reads
13 Comments
NewBeginnings
Poem Published
29th Jan 2019 7:30pm
29th Jan 2019 7:30pm
When I Die
When I’m finally laid to rest,
Please don’t put me in a wooden casket;
Or leave flowers at my grave,
In a pretty little basket.
Don’t pump me full of chemicals
And put me on display;
Just bury me beneath the earth,
And plant a seed upon my grave.
As my body rots below,
My atoms are assimilated;
In my place a tree will grow,
From the place that I originated.
Precious minerals, returned to earth;
Little molecules of me,
The fuel for yet another life ...
Please don’t put me in a wooden casket;
Or leave flowers at my grave,
In a pretty little basket.
Don’t pump me full of chemicals
And put me on display;
Just bury me beneath the earth,
And plant a seed upon my grave.
As my body rots below,
My atoms are assimilated;
In my place a tree will grow,
From the place that I originated.
Precious minerals, returned to earth;
Little molecules of me,
The fuel for yet another life ...
#death
#earth
#trees
#nature
#LifeCycle
162 reads
34 Comments
NewBeginnings
Poem Published
11th Feb 2019 11:03pm
11th Feb 2019 11:03pm
Walking in the Wilderness
Walking in the wilderness, I find solace amongst the cypress trees;
In the arms of nature’s sweet embrace, where birds sing cheerful melodies.
Far beyond the numbing drone of traffic, the mechanical whirr of human noise;
The screaming sirens of the city, and the cries of little girls and boys.
On a wooden bench beside the water, in a place that only we know,
Magic memories were softly planted; in the gardens of our minds, they grow.
Where the seed of love once sprouted under the shade of our favorite mulberry tree,
Our love did bloom and grow, and a...
In the arms of nature’s sweet embrace, where birds sing cheerful melodies.
Far beyond the numbing drone of traffic, the mechanical whirr of human noise;
The screaming sirens of the city, and the cries of little girls and boys.
On a wooden bench beside the water, in a place that only we know,
Magic memories were softly planted; in the gardens of our minds, they grow.
Where the seed of love once sprouted under the shade of our favorite mulberry tree,
Our love did bloom and grow, and a...
#love
#trees
#flowers
#birds
#nature
125 reads
25 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
7th Feb 2019 11:40am
7th Feb 2019 11:40am
Within
#abuse
#SelfHarm
#confessional #MentalHealth
#confessional #MentalHealth
135 reads
33 Comments
Sky_dancer
Poem Published
19th Feb 2019 2:35pm
19th Feb 2019 2:35pm
Be-ing Woman
Be meek
Be demure
Be quiet
Be gentle
Be soft
Be kind
Be humble
Be bashful
Be patient
Be forbearing
Be resigned
Be shy
Be retiring
Be reverent
Be chaste
Be peaceful
Be docile
Be lamblike
Be mild
Be modest
Be lowly
Be diffident
Be unassuming
Be self-effacing
Be unpretentious
Be unambitious
Be unobtrusive
Be submissive
Be yielding
Be unresisting
Be obedient
Be compliant
Be tame
Be biddable
Be...
Be demure
Be quiet
Be gentle
Be soft
Be kind
Be humble
Be bashful
Be patient
Be forbearing
Be resigned
Be shy
Be retiring
Be reverent
Be chaste
Be peaceful
Be docile
Be lamblike
Be mild
Be modest
Be lowly
Be diffident
Be unassuming
Be self-effacing
Be unpretentious
Be unambitious
Be unobtrusive
Be submissive
Be yielding
Be unresisting
Be obedient
Be compliant
Be tame
Be biddable
Be...
#women
#feminism
53 reads
30 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
12th Feb 2019 7:28pm
12th Feb 2019 7:28pm
Insomnia: Dying to Write
.
.
.
.
The muse will never let me sleep,
Not even get a bite to eat.
Because the bug runs through my veins,
To write in verse both night and day
Until the Lord my soul to keep.
#LifeAsAWriter
#TruthOfLife
#insomnia
#WritingPoetry
#SelfReflection
105 reads
24 Comments
SoulzGirl69
Poem Published
30th Jan 2019 7:34pm
30th Jan 2019 7:34pm
Scared to be lonely
Do you hold me
To hear my heartbeat
Or is it
Because we are scared to be lonely
Spiraling emotions
We keep coming back for more
More heart to heart
Or is it heart ache
Do we crave this pain
Do we hold on
Just a moment longer
Because we are scared to be lonely
My heart
Your heart
Will keep holding on
Because we are scared to be lonely
To hear my heartbeat
Or is it
Because we are scared to be lonely
Spiraling emotions
We keep coming back for more
More heart to heart
Or is it heart ache
Do we crave this pain
Do we hold on
Just a moment longer
Because we are scared to be lonely
My heart
Your heart
Will keep holding on
Because we are scared to be lonely
#loneliness
117 reads
29 Comments
HowlingWhelms
Noire
Noire
Poem Published
31st Jan 2019 10:53pm
31st Jan 2019 10:53pm
and wars become lost in the darkness of my molecules.. .
it's that feeling
twixt'd with the
thought of your
scent being
stolen from the
pores of my skin,
which i can't bear …
sensories and the
unexplained are
mispronounced
on high,
followed by
feverish ellipsis
i.. lay naked and
hibernal,
tenderly
awakened in a
stratosphere of
science and love. ...
twixt'd with the
thought of your
scent being
stolen from the
pores of my skin,
which i can't bear …
sensories and the
unexplained are
mispronounced
on high,
followed by
feverish ellipsis
i.. lay naked and
hibernal,
tenderly
awakened in a
stratosphere of
science and love. ...
#LifeStruggles
#peace
#emotional #philosophical
#emotional #philosophical
152 reads
17 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2019 4:51pm
23rd Jan 2019 4:51pm
Unlit
Slumping back hard
against the chilly railing
listening to Anna Nalick
do the trick
My troubadour so adored
spilling it out
once more
onto the tacky beige linoleum
As I rearrange them
all
thorny mosaic pieces
a bloody puzzled cliché
Then open my soft pack
bleached sterile white
whiff of rawest leaves ... shredded
the last sleek slender tube
Placing it in between
my loving lips
coming now to grips
...
against the chilly railing
listening to Anna Nalick
do the trick
My troubadour so adored
spilling it out
once more
onto the tacky beige linoleum
As I rearrange them
all
thorny mosaic pieces
a bloody puzzled cliché
Then open my soft pack
bleached sterile white
whiff of rawest leaves ... shredded
the last sleek slender tube
Placing it in between
my loving lips
coming now to grips
...
#confessional
#SelfReflection
116 reads
27 Comments
ElusiveSleepfall
MatthewZ
MatthewZ
Poem Published
18th Feb 2019 3:02am
18th Feb 2019 3:02am
Play Me a Sad Song
The night, it longs for light of day
As lovers pass the time away
Tell me why this life is wrong
In grieving tones of your sad song
Reach inside and touch my heart
Sing it to where love might start
But as it starts to sing along
Break it down with your sad song
The longing sax, the crying horn
May fill the void from which it's torn
And even though it may seem wrong
Reset the pain with your sad song
Liquid notes of darkened blue
Grieving of my time with you
The final set for which I long
Take me home...
As lovers pass the time away
Tell me why this life is wrong
In grieving tones of your sad song
Reach inside and touch my heart
Sing it to where love might start
But as it starts to sing along
Break it down with your sad song
The longing sax, the crying horn
May fill the void from which it's torn
And even though it may seem wrong
Reset the pain with your sad song
Liquid notes of darkened blue
Grieving of my time with you
The final set for which I long
Take me home...
#loneliness
#dark
#music
#despair
#emptiness
67 reads
21 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
25th Jan 2019 6:24pm
25th Jan 2019 6:24pm
The Ties That Bind
Outside my window, limbs with leaves are blowing in the breeze
Mosquitoes are making melodies, as butterflies dance with honey bees
They all seem to hail to me, they are inviting me to their tree
But my heart is bound to where you left me
Living a lie and hanging on to nothing
Although the truth is shown, I'm not trusting
I found out that there are certain things that you should keep
This way if they decide to leave, the cuts are not to deep
You see they want to get into my heart and mind
They want to feel what I feel, see what makes me...
Mosquitoes are making melodies, as butterflies dance with honey bees
They all seem to hail to me, they are inviting me to their tree
But my heart is bound to where you left me
Living a lie and hanging on to nothing
Although the truth is shown, I'm not trusting
I found out that there are certain things that you should keep
This way if they decide to leave, the cuts are not to deep
You see they want to get into my heart and mind
They want to feel what I feel, see what makes me...
#love
#identity
#universe #denial
#universe #denial
126 reads
22 Comments
Sky_dancer
Poem Published
20th Feb 2019 5:29am
20th Feb 2019 5:29am
Onanism
My finger slips inside my glove
A thought of you to fuel my love
My dreaming dance on tender flesh
I crave your lips and catch my breath
A ballet dancer's pirouette
In bokeh dreams in edged vignette
Cascading falls, a one hand dance
This beckoning, a sole romance
The artist's stroke upon my canvas
Palletes array of scarlet vuvlva
A whisper hair of graceful touch
My indexed billowing soft brush
Concentric spinning on the pivot
The quickening of horaed digits
A firework display explodes ...
A thought of you to fuel my love
My dreaming dance on tender flesh
I crave your lips and catch my breath
A ballet dancer's pirouette
In bokeh dreams in edged vignette
Cascading falls, a one hand dance
This beckoning, a sole romance
The artist's stroke upon my canvas
Palletes array of scarlet vuvlva
A whisper hair of graceful touch
My indexed billowing soft brush
Concentric spinning on the pivot
The quickening of horaed digits
A firework display explodes ...
#erotic
#SelfDiscovery
#sensual
59 reads
15 Comments
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