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.
oldmanG
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:16am
Yesterday 9:16am
Metronome
You are my metronome
I’m a beat off and i swim in my head
Your steady rhythm puts me back into
Real that I should pay attention to
You are the dorsal fin you keep me straight
I’m into my own beat just a beat off
Living in my truths that I lie to me
I come back to you you set the rhythm
The rhythm between me and you and then some
Metronome ticks within me now
You set the rhythm I lay it down
Rhythm and rhyme and why r h y
You take me back into myself ...
I’m a beat off and i swim in my head
Your steady rhythm puts me back into
Real that I should pay attention to
You are the dorsal fin you keep me straight
I’m into my own beat just a beat off
Living in my truths that I lie to me
I come back to you you set the rhythm
The rhythm between me and you and then some
Metronome ticks within me now
You set the rhythm I lay it down
Rhythm and rhyme and why r h y
You take me back into myself ...
#honesty
#lyrics
#motivational
#music
#support
30 reads
0 Comments
Sappho
Poem Published
13th Sep 2024 9:18am
13th Sep 2024 9:18am
Metamorphoses
The transformation from a
Walking to a wheeling person
Opened the gate to a
Dark night of the soul
How I missed dancing
Playing volleyball
Riding my bike and
Roaming the woods!
Shame swallowed me
Self-pity drowned me in tears
Self-hatred got the best of me
Failure threw me into an abyss
Looking into the mirror
I saw a weak disabled body
Craving desperately my attention
Merciless I turned away
When I was at my lowest
An angel in the shape of a man
Stepped into my life and...
Walking to a wheeling person
Opened the gate to a
Dark night of the soul
How I missed dancing
Playing volleyball
Riding my bike and
Roaming the woods!
Shame swallowed me
Self-pity drowned me in tears
Self-hatred got the best of me
Failure threw me into an abyss
Looking into the mirror
I saw a weak disabled body
Craving desperately my attention
Merciless I turned away
When I was at my lowest
An angel in the shape of a man
Stepped into my life and...
#disability
#illness
#vulnerability
125 reads
8 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 3:14pm
19th Nov 2024 3:14pm
What is Grief
Grief is when you start to not care
not see the bright among the grey
when the door closes and stay shut
no feelings just the need to cut
Grief is when you choke on your words
your throat close up and shut out air
pain in your joints sharply going inward
you wait for nothing stillness everywhere
so what is grief
grief is when you lose yourself in losing someone
losing your thoughts in what might have been
jumping into a pinhole get buried without a marker
Grief just is.
...
not see the bright among the grey
when the door closes and stay shut
no feelings just the need to cut
Grief is when you choke on your words
your throat close up and shut out air
pain in your joints sharply going inward
you wait for nothing stillness everywhere
so what is grief
grief is when you lose yourself in losing someone
losing your thoughts in what might have been
jumping into a pinhole get buried without a marker
Grief just is.
...
#grief
53 reads
4 Comments
Flowolf
Poem Published
14th Mar 2020 12:30pm
14th Mar 2020 12:30pm
A Drifter's Regret
Shattered mirrors reflect deserts of serenity
Laid to waste by the temper of misfortune
Pity responds to the call of whimpering tragedy
As it attempts to crack the riddle of a fading era
A nomad's reprieve of November's sun
Is trapped within this fractured pursuit
Thorns embrace his blooming Autumn
Beware of the evening's lurking grimace
A sincere glance masks its somber intent
An ode from a silent, hollow voice is sung
Heard around the world of a distant fool
Melodies creep within a slumbering...
Laid to waste by the temper of misfortune
Pity responds to the call of whimpering tragedy
As it attempts to crack the riddle of a fading era
A nomad's reprieve of November's sun
Is trapped within this fractured pursuit
Thorns embrace his blooming Autumn
Beware of the evening's lurking grimace
A sincere glance masks its somber intent
An ode from a silent, hollow voice is sung
Heard around the world of a distant fool
Melodies creep within a slumbering...
#identity
#SelfReflection
#emptiness
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfWorth
460 reads
0 Comments
Tracey_Leigh
Poem Published
5th Apr 2022 6:37pm
5th Apr 2022 6:37pm
Floating bye~
Sometimes the pain resurfaces after we were convinced that there was nothing left to process. I’m swimming in the moment of that loss and grief. The life jacket is tattered and torn and I feel like I’m sinking. It’s then that the dolphin rises. Moves under you just enough to breathe. Just enough to feel the sun kiss the essence of your body. I’m not ready to fully rise but I am grateful to the alchemy of the dolphin willing to support me until my life force is renewed, rebirthed, revitalized. I’m resting here today in the magic refusing to fall🙏🏻🌟
Not a...
Not a...
#hope
#memories
#despair
309 reads
8 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
13th Oct 2024 12:54pm
13th Oct 2024 12:54pm
Metamorphosed
Eyeballin the sky...
at the soul hour on coal power...
after the flames have gone to bed
to let me watch the Dog star
nipping at Orion's heels.
Polaris still crowned the neighbor's conifer,
amid the Ursine frolic.
The Pleiadean patch was straight up
and I straight up imagined
the seven daughters of Atlas...
430 light years away.
Then I vowed to learn all their names!
And the Great Nebula in Orion
raged beneath his triad belt
as bright as that...
at the soul hour on coal power...
after the flames have gone to bed
to let me watch the Dog star
nipping at Orion's heels.
Polaris still crowned the neighbor's conifer,
amid the Ursine frolic.
The Pleiadean patch was straight up
and I straight up imagined
the seven daughters of Atlas...
430 light years away.
Then I vowed to learn all their names!
And the Great Nebula in Orion
raged beneath his triad belt
as bright as that...
#mythology
132 reads
6 Comments
Hashman
Poem Published
12th Feb 2023 1:43am
12th Feb 2023 1:43am
Dead...
Am I dead?
Don't know what happened
it was so quick
was it an accident,
maybe a heart attack
was I shot
or did a bomb go off ?
I just remember
standing with my friends
what a wonderful day
laughing, breathing, living...
now it's dark
and I have no touch
no sound to hear
no air to breathe
no light to see
no one to love
dead...
Don't know what happened
it was so quick
was it an accident,
maybe a heart attack
was I shot
or did a bomb go off ?
I just remember
standing with my friends
what a wonderful day
laughing, breathing, living...
now it's dark
and I have no touch
no sound to hear
no air to breathe
no light to see
no one to love
dead...
#confusion
247 reads
14 Comments
DevilsChild
Poem Published
1st Oct 2024 7:32am
1st Oct 2024 7:32am
Older
the older I get
the less patience I have
I don't have time
worrying about who likes me
I work and make money
doing it for my family
when I'm off I focus on inner peace
a few hobbies help wash away the day
I don't really care
if the neighbor is being a bitch
or some Karen is mad about my lawn
I like to get in touch with my emotions
and I'm not afraid to say it
after a life of being let down
I like to sit and cry
even if it's only on the inside
but it's not over those that hurt me
it's for those I...
the less patience I have
I don't have time
worrying about who likes me
I work and make money
doing it for my family
when I'm off I focus on inner peace
a few hobbies help wash away the day
I don't really care
if the neighbor is being a bitch
or some Karen is mad about my lawn
I like to get in touch with my emotions
and I'm not afraid to say it
after a life of being let down
I like to sit and cry
even if it's only on the inside
but it's not over those that hurt me
it's for those I...
#aging
#emotions
#myself
128 reads
5 Comments
Adzy
Poem Published
9th Jan 2024 3:27pm
9th Jan 2024 3:27pm
Swirling
These thoughts of lead
Weigh heavy on my head
Constantly firing synapses
Peace of mind collapses
Brain's going a mile a minute
Forever racing, there's no limit
Day dreaming, wide awake
Just switch off for goodness sake
A cranium full of pondering
With endless cerebral wandering
Always thinking so deep
Why can't I just fall asleep?
Weigh heavy on my head
Constantly firing synapses
Peace of mind collapses
Brain's going a mile a minute
Forever racing, there's no limit
Day dreaming, wide awake
Just switch off for goodness sake
A cranium full of pondering
With endless cerebral wandering
Always thinking so deep
Why can't I just fall asleep?
#MentalHealth
#sleep
#SelfReflection #emotions
#SelfReflection #emotions
247 reads
4 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
20th Jul 2024 11:46pm
20th Jul 2024 11:46pm
Angel of My Lyceum Dreams
Angel of My Lyceum Dreams
Caravansary of souls
Where my tender sprout of youth
Lived after the steam of tears
Misted into ghosts in the crystal ball
Of a womanly vision
For my future dream
Of return to the lost carousel
Of the doctorate dreams
I’d left for dead
The corpse of a hope
So long on life support
Whose plug I’d pulled ...
Caravansary of souls
Where my tender sprout of youth
Lived after the steam of tears
Misted into ghosts in the crystal ball
Of a womanly vision
For my future dream
Of return to the lost carousel
Of the doctorate dreams
I’d left for dead
The corpse of a hope
So long on life support
Whose plug I’d pulled ...
#college
#despair
#dreams
#hope
#women
106 reads
0 Comments
fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Poem Published
19th Sep 2024 6:00pm
19th Sep 2024 6:00pm
????
I am trying not to cry.
But it is hard to hold back
I don’t understand what went wrong
How can I make amends
This hurts, and it’s not my pride, you see
I put out the best work I can
And it’s never good enough to see
I put up a brave face
I smile, I joke, and I even tease
Even the strongest man
Will crumble at the knees
Maybe it’s just the day
Maybe it’s just the wrong time
Too many maybe’s rolling in my mind
I went dark to see if you can see my light
I am light, and still, I cannot take flight
I will be fine;...
But it is hard to hold back
I don’t understand what went wrong
How can I make amends
This hurts, and it’s not my pride, you see
I put out the best work I can
And it’s never good enough to see
I put up a brave face
I smile, I joke, and I even tease
Even the strongest man
Will crumble at the knees
Maybe it’s just the day
Maybe it’s just the wrong time
Too many maybe’s rolling in my mind
I went dark to see if you can see my light
I am light, and still, I cannot take flight
I will be fine;...
#confusion
143 reads
25 Comments
averageJoe69
Ron Summers
Ron Summers
Poem Published
12th Apr 2023 4:26am
12th Apr 2023 4:26am
Opening
Opening
My heart is like a flower blossoming in your morning Sun, I feel I'm accepting who I am and my life has just begun
Many years I've hid myself away, lived my life in somewhere dark, now I'm standing out of lifes shadows and you have been the spark
I want to show the world who I am, I want to be the man I'm meant to be, finally I feel unshackled, the real me is now set free
Things are changing with me, I think it's down to you, you've given me some self belief, you've been honest kind and true
I thought being broken my life was...
My heart is like a flower blossoming in your morning Sun, I feel I'm accepting who I am and my life has just begun
Many years I've hid myself away, lived my life in somewhere dark, now I'm standing out of lifes shadows and you have been the spark
I want to show the world who I am, I want to be the man I'm meant to be, finally I feel unshackled, the real me is now set free
Things are changing with me, I think it's down to you, you've given me some self belief, you've been honest kind and true
I thought being broken my life was...
#love
#SelfWorth
301 reads
2 Comments
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