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.
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2018 2:35pm
22nd Sep 2018 2:35pm
Tundra
Blinding white sea
frosted desolation
further than the mind
can wander
Cursed black line
cocky vertical
ever flashing
mock ... ing
Feeling left
disarmed
palette of ideas
crumbled flaky brittle
While tears stay
frozen
in the corner
of driest eyes
Is this how it
ends ...
or perhaps
how it truly begins
frosted desolation
further than the mind
can wander
Cursed black line
cocky vertical
ever flashing
mock ... ing
Feeling left
disarmed
palette of ideas
crumbled flaky brittle
While tears stay
frozen
in the corner
of driest eyes
Is this how it
ends ...
or perhaps
how it truly begins
#WritersBlock
#WritingPoetry
71 reads
42 Comments
sophie_ericson
Poem Published
30th Aug 2018 4:56pm
30th Aug 2018 4:56pm
because... it's how I exhale
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD
I was twelve
when
each breathing molecule
making up and holding together
the everything
parted
into nothings
when the street lights
were outshone by thirty-something
pairs of piercing eyes
and the dark echoed with reverberations of
incomprehensible words
where everything became
was
meaningless
I placed every bleeding drop of
hope
at the bottom of the wishing well
where...
—Ray Bradbury, WD
I was twelve
when
each breathing molecule
making up and holding together
the everything
parted
into nothings
when the street lights
were outshone by thirty-something
pairs of piercing eyes
and the dark echoed with reverberations of
incomprehensible words
where everything became
was
meaningless
I placed every bleeding drop of
hope
at the bottom of the wishing well
where...
#LifeAsAWriter
#SelfReflection
202 reads
34 Comments
Duende
Poem Published
31st Aug 2018 11:28am
31st Aug 2018 11:28am
Deliver Me
the signs of
self destruction
start to show
it takes a toll
on body & soul
skin & bones
it came back
way too strong
despite fear
self doubt
and shame
the need to
deliver this
fragile frame
steadily grows
to feel safe
and small
be able to
finally let go
of control
to surrender
my mind to
reliable hands
to feel free
finding peace
in restraints
healing in pain ...
self destruction
start to show
it takes a toll
on body & soul
skin & bones
it came back
way too strong
despite fear
self doubt
and shame
the need to
deliver this
fragile frame
steadily grows
to feel safe
and small
be able to
finally let go
of control
to surrender
my mind to
reliable hands
to feel free
finding peace
in restraints
healing in pain ...
#EatingDisorder
136 reads
24 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
Today 11:44am
Today 11:44am
Soul Ink
It only wells
from deep within
shared without
hesitation
Fragile always
till it dries
in such peril of
diffusing
Way beyond mere
sanguine stuff
for it is flowing
glowing eternal
Seeking the right
words
walking the line
to occupy each stanza
Till it finally dares
to share
the faintest most
whisper
from deep within
shared without
hesitation
Fragile always
till it dries
in such peril of
diffusing
Way beyond mere
sanguine stuff
for it is flowing
glowing eternal
Seeking the right
words
walking the line
to occupy each stanza
Till it finally dares
to share
the faintest most
whisper
#confessional
#WritingPoetry
42 reads
23 Comments
SoulzGirl69
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:47am
Yesterday 7:47am
The final star
In the end
There will
Be no pretty poems
To read aloud
No smiling flowers
The sun will
Embrace the moon
One last time
A lonely tear run down my
Cold face
The raw hurt say goodbye
To the final star
There will
Be no pretty poems
To read aloud
No smiling flowers
The sun will
Embrace the moon
One last time
A lonely tear run down my
Cold face
The raw hurt say goodbye
To the final star
#sadness
#loneliness
46 reads
21 Comments
nightbirdblue
Poem Published
13th Sep 2018 10:03pm
13th Sep 2018 10:03pm
New Wave
Searching through the late night
Wondering...
Oh how things have changed
I used to stay up so late
Frantically spilling my heart
Pouring out onto the page
And oh how I’ve missed it so
Perhaps the greatest heartache
Abandoning my gifted pen
For some few too many days
Though it has not been silent
I was just stricken by my fate
A wrong turn left at somewhere
Or so I thought, perhaps a mistake
So I was lost and found again
Writhing in self-shame
Until I found the courage to return
Despite what they...
Wondering...
Oh how things have changed
I used to stay up so late
Frantically spilling my heart
Pouring out onto the page
And oh how I’ve missed it so
Perhaps the greatest heartache
Abandoning my gifted pen
For some few too many days
Though it has not been silent
I was just stricken by my fate
A wrong turn left at somewhere
Or so I thought, perhaps a mistake
So I was lost and found again
Writhing in self-shame
Until I found the courage to return
Despite what they...
#courage
#TimeHeals
#MovingOn
#acceptance
#SelfDiscovery
74 reads
16 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
24th Aug 2018 1:08pm
24th Aug 2018 1:08pm
A Perfect Memory
It is said, by other cultures,
that all water has a memory,
always seeking the way home.
As you know since I first found you,
I no longer tend a garden,
not tradition as we knew it:
my knees ground bare & sodden’d,
two hands in terra cotta
with my breezy straw hat on
in a bright tenacious sun.
And instead of gather’d water
from a chatty spring nearby,
I'm reduced to jelly glasses
in the sink in which I wash,
rinsing moss from where it lays
as I listen with my eyes.
And the water...
that all water has a memory,
always seeking the way home.
As you know since I first found you,
I no longer tend a garden,
not tradition as we knew it:
my knees ground bare & sodden’d,
two hands in terra cotta
with my breezy straw hat on
in a bright tenacious sun.
And instead of gather’d water
from a chatty spring nearby,
I'm reduced to jelly glasses
in the sink in which I wash,
rinsing moss from where it lays
as I listen with my eyes.
And the water...
#LifeAsAWriter
#TruthOfLife
#illness
#WritingPoetry
#acceptance
98 reads
25 Comments
RoseJasmine
Poem Published
15th Sep 2018 3:08am
15th Sep 2018 3:08am
Leakage
Many things could shock me
one of them is roof leaking
I mistook it had been over
until the night I opened the door
found a water puddle on the floor
“The ceiling is dripping,” I screamed
Watching the little stream
coming down the beam
apparently not at all a dream
It’s one of the life disasters
just can’t expect any better
It should be gone in a second
can’t wait over this weekend
The nightmare wends its way
through nights and days
and seems no way to delay
Nonstop...
one of them is roof leaking
I mistook it had been over
until the night I opened the door
found a water puddle on the floor
“The ceiling is dripping,” I screamed
Watching the little stream
coming down the beam
apparently not at all a dream
It’s one of the life disasters
just can’t expect any better
It should be gone in a second
can’t wait over this weekend
The nightmare wends its way
through nights and days
and seems no way to delay
Nonstop...
#LifeStruggles
96 reads
23 Comments
AtoMikbomb
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2018 8:47am
22nd Sep 2018 8:47am
I've outgrown the need to tiptoe
I etched a fence - a cold water fjord
to hoard myself
to keep these shores from you
And I cracked some stencils
my pencil pressings
come on to strong;
so I leave myself
where I please
The lines...
they think they know how they should lie
Oh,
the confines ease their eyelids closed
at night
But they detest;
us, the stabber of gaps
in their tidy
typical packaging
Red, raw eyewhites blink...
we cheat them of their dividends
of sleep
to hoard myself
to keep these shores from you
And I cracked some stencils
my pencil pressings
come on to strong;
so I leave myself
where I please
The lines...
they think they know how they should lie
Oh,
the confines ease their eyelids closed
at night
But they detest;
us, the stabber of gaps
in their tidy
typical packaging
Red, raw eyewhites blink...
we cheat them of their dividends
of sleep
#freedom
40 reads
14 Comments
Angelast1
Poem Published
13th Sep 2018 8:48pm
13th Sep 2018 8:48pm
As of today....
Would you be my mattress?
Or maybe my maitresse?
Summer is like syphilis
It fries your brain eventually
Leaves nothing but sweaty musk
on everything you touch
My lengua has no more linguistics
Or maybe my maitresse?
Summer is like syphilis
It fries your brain eventually
Leaves nothing but sweaty musk
on everything you touch
My lengua has no more linguistics
#WritersBlock
#LifeAsAWriter
#frustration
46 reads
17 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
20th Sep 2018 3:26am
20th Sep 2018 3:26am
sometime in the late afternoon
the sun
stands
defiantly
against
the sky
shedding
its skin
of warmth
but the
leaves
have
already
begun to
fall and
dance like
wistful
children
through the
afternoon air
I watch
my thoughts
change
color
and the
trees
understand
(c ) 2018 R.R. Zinn
stands
defiantly
against
the sky
shedding
its skin
of warmth
but the
leaves
have
already
begun to
fall and
dance like
wistful
children
through the
afternoon air
I watch
my thoughts
change
color
and the
trees
understand
(c ) 2018 R.R. Zinn
#nostalgia
41 reads
10 Comments
JusTim_
Poem Published
18th Sep 2018 1:14pm
18th Sep 2018 1:14pm
Protected Paradise
Sadness bleeds through these words
crumbling down onto me
I'm a mountain holding on
rock solid
as the world throws down
an avalanche of anger
I'm no stranger to the sun
burning hot these trying eyes
breathe, I hear the whispers
for life is too short
to reign or rain
on someone else
and their protected paradise
crumbling down onto me
I'm a mountain holding on
rock solid
as the world throws down
an avalanche of anger
I'm no stranger to the sun
burning hot these trying eyes
breathe, I hear the whispers
for life is too short
to reign or rain
on someone else
and their protected paradise
#sadness
#anxiety
45 reads
14 Comments
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