Self Poems by Top Critiquers
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself
Poems written by Top Critiquers
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
28th Nov 2022 5:37pm
28th Nov 2022 5:37pm
Black Swans: We are the Inevitable
They want to shoot us
From a distance
High powered rifle
Only cowards can afford
Black sheep
Black swans
Black dogs
Nobody wants them
So we want ourselves
Outcasts, misfits, beautiful
Literary giants
Venus rising, small pond
From a distance
High powered rifle
Only cowards can afford
Black sheep
Black swans
Black dogs
Nobody wants them
So we want ourselves
Outcasts, misfits, beautiful
Literary giants
Venus rising, small pond
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
111 reads
24 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
29th Nov 2022 1:00am
29th Nov 2022 1:00am
Crying
you don't see my tears
somehow you know anyway
that I am crying
somehow you know anyway
that I am crying
#sadness
#mother
#illness
#senryu
#suffering
135 reads
wallyroo92
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2022 8:22am
22nd Oct 2022 8:22am
8th and La Brea
I stood a few hundred yards down the block
Looking at the old Firestone sign
The tire station has been turned into a modern and hip brewery
But I could hardly recognize everything else around
Another block north
The old building on Wilshire
With its Art Deco facade still stands taller than newer lofts around it
The Asahi sign at the very top has been gone for years
And the Samsung sign that replaced it
Gone too
It still bares it’s mark
I remember driving down the boulevard
Looking at the bright lights at night ...
Looking at the old Firestone sign
The tire station has been turned into a modern and hip brewery
But I could hardly recognize everything else around
Another block north
The old building on Wilshire
With its Art Deco facade still stands taller than newer lofts around it
The Asahi sign at the very top has been gone for years
And the Samsung sign that replaced it
Gone too
It still bares it’s mark
I remember driving down the boulevard
Looking at the bright lights at night ...
#memories
#aging
#SelfReflection
86 reads
6 Comments
Honoria
Poem Published
20th Nov 2022 5:54am
20th Nov 2022 5:54am
The Clock and The Ferryman
What price will i pay
As the Ferryman rows
He accepts my coin
my purse feels light
i am apportioned
my number of minutes
How did i use them
i won’t be spared
The greatest equalizer
Row Ferryman, row
The clock advances
The ticking seems louder
Am i afraid?
Only, for whom i’ve offended
As the Ferryman rows
He accepts my coin
my purse feels light
i am apportioned
my number of minutes
How did i use them
i won’t be spared
The greatest equalizer
Row Ferryman, row
The clock advances
The ticking seems louder
Am i afraid?
Only, for whom i’ve offended
#death
#SelfReflection
164 reads
36 Comments
moroccanpoet
Poem Published
18th Nov 2022 10:13pm
18th Nov 2022 10:13pm
frustration & Desperate feelings
To be an unloved person
A feeling of hate
Faced with this being
So much faith rejected
Through all these past days
how to be loved
By him, who is so wild...
I fought
The hardest
But the "let go"
This fact more and more keep
And I released...
Today so desperate
what did i do to her
So that she takes his defense constantly...
I feel misunderstood
This leads me to do some stupid things
Some image comes to my mind
As I tried to make them disappear
Talking about it will help me
But...
A feeling of hate
Faced with this being
So much faith rejected
Through all these past days
how to be loved
By him, who is so wild...
I fought
The hardest
But the "let go"
This fact more and more keep
And I released...
Today so desperate
what did i do to her
So that she takes his defense constantly...
I feel misunderstood
This leads me to do some stupid things
Some image comes to my mind
As I tried to make them disappear
Talking about it will help me
But...
#sadness
#loneliness
#dark #despair
#dark #despair
56 reads
0 Comments
Solomon_Song
Poem Published
12th Oct 2022 6:18am
12th Oct 2022 6:18am
LET'S CELEBRATE DESPITE THE WEIGHT
Oh, what the hell!
It's natural!
Let's celebrate
despite the weight
that's descended
and expanded
the hips and ass
of this 'hour glass'
of a figure.
Some may snigger
but it it is my
lived-in body.
I'm what I am;
don't give a damn!
It's natural!
Let's celebrate
despite the weight
that's descended
and expanded
the hips and ass
of this 'hour glass'
of a figure.
Some may snigger
but it it is my
lived-in body.
I'm what I am;
don't give a damn!
#rhyming
#aging
#philosophical #SelfWorth
#philosophical #SelfWorth
94 reads
0 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
26th Oct 2021 10:19pm
26th Oct 2021 10:19pm
idiosyncrasy
chivalrous temptation,
excitable treachery don't leave me
I am in that mood again
defending my anxiety
there is need without reason
it swings inside me constantly
tortured existence I know no other
so it's for you I get on my knees
does that make me weak?
I guess it does
I can't cut it clean
escapism is my vow
I will check out every chance I get
upon your doorstep I sit awaiting my pardon
I wonder once released will I be different,
or is the problem with me?
...
excitable treachery don't leave me
I am in that mood again
defending my anxiety
there is need without reason
it swings inside me constantly
tortured existence I know no other
so it's for you I get on my knees
does that make me weak?
I guess it does
I can't cut it clean
escapism is my vow
I will check out every chance I get
upon your doorstep I sit awaiting my pardon
I wonder once released will I be different,
or is the problem with me?
...
#addiction
#philosophical
306 reads
8 Comments
Billy_Snagg
Snaggy
Snaggy
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2022 00:39am
22nd Oct 2022 00:39am
Old Grey Shirt
When I think about it, my old grey shirt and I have been on quite a journey together.
It has accompanied me through thick and thin for many years,
Appearing at key moments in lots of photos, my historic attire.
Wearing a shirt such as mine, you can't go wrong with a neutral colour like grey -
And I never stand out; it goes with anything I wear, from difficult greens to well...
Difficult greens!
I bought that shirt five years ago or so, maybe longer, who knows?
I'm sure it's only a Primark label; why would I have gone elsewhere to spend more?! ...
It has accompanied me through thick and thin for many years,
Appearing at key moments in lots of photos, my historic attire.
Wearing a shirt such as mine, you can't go wrong with a neutral colour like grey -
And I never stand out; it goes with anything I wear, from difficult greens to well...
Difficult greens!
I bought that shirt five years ago or so, maybe longer, who knows?
I'm sure it's only a Primark label; why would I have gone elsewhere to spend more?! ...
#consumerism
178 reads
26 Comments
Adelphina
Poem Published
11th Sep 2022 3:33am
11th Sep 2022 3:33am
Ventana Pages
Peeking through the
Beaten path
Of smudged glass
With caked on specks
Of aged dirt
Searching for
A sign of myself
On the other
Side of the blur
Scrolled onto
My Ventana Pages
Where I spilled the fluid of
My soul with calloused fingers
Behind sheer curtains
Of contemplation
Inside all of my
Different bedrooms
Merging fear with
The beauty of words
Same wild midnight spirit
Unrecognizable with growth
Pondering who I am
Where am I going
Asking my reflection
Who...
Beaten path
Of smudged glass
With caked on specks
Of aged dirt
Searching for
A sign of myself
On the other
Side of the blur
Scrolled onto
My Ventana Pages
Where I spilled the fluid of
My soul with calloused fingers
Behind sheer curtains
Of contemplation
Inside all of my
Different bedrooms
Merging fear with
The beauty of words
Same wild midnight spirit
Unrecognizable with growth
Pondering who I am
Where am I going
Asking my reflection
Who...
#identity
#SelfReflection
200 reads
22 Comments
Phantom2426
Poem Published
20th May 2020 4:09am
20th May 2020 4:09am
Bloom Doom
Grew up the youngest
of three blooming brothers
Spreading my petals
everywhere I went
but trouble kept
getting my petals
stuck because of my
Oldest brother's problems
But now my petals are
holding because of
this frenzy shit the
goverments/spooks created
I am tired of this and me
being my Oldest Brother's Keeper
So plesse let my petals go do
Their blooming
of three blooming brothers
Spreading my petals
everywhere I went
but trouble kept
getting my petals
stuck because of my
Oldest brother's problems
But now my petals are
holding because of
this frenzy shit the
goverments/spooks created
I am tired of this and me
being my Oldest Brother's Keeper
So plesse let my petals go do
Their blooming
#brother
#childhood
#family
#memories
#pandemic
381 reads
3 Comments
Styxian
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
"Your Name Goes Here"
Dear "______",
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
#PTSD
#Autism
220 reads
17 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2022 00:28am
2nd Nov 2022 00:28am
Into The Wind I Go...
I have paid my dues
This Sunday come rain or shine, sneakering up once again pounding pavement in my pink Nike shoes
Running against myself not against the wind
Broken and repaired to see if sheer determination can do this once again
The strain, the pain, the agony to walk again, the grueling physical therapy
Was it for this day for me to see
If perseverance truly pays off or a dream denied
As I stand among my running peers at the starting line
Freighted to move
Because in my mind, I am running with no pace, my own glory,...
This Sunday come rain or shine, sneakering up once again pounding pavement in my pink Nike shoes
Running against myself not against the wind
Broken and repaired to see if sheer determination can do this once again
The strain, the pain, the agony to walk again, the grueling physical therapy
Was it for this day for me to see
If perseverance truly pays off or a dream denied
As I stand among my running peers at the starting line
Freighted to move
Because in my mind, I am running with no pace, my own glory,...
#courage
#identity
#SelfReflection
#passion
#determination
186 reads
7 Comments
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