Video Self Poems
Personal poetry about the way you feel about yourself with spoken word poetry videos, most recently published poems first.
No One About
Written by bcpoet
Poem Published 20th June 2017 4:52pm
all around inside and out
while penetrating
there's no one about
there's no one to see
there's no one to hear
no one to share the air
no one near
it's been a long time
since the moment of birth
minutes and years
not always on Earth
sometimes awake
sometimes in dreams
sometimes like now, alone
so it seems
there's no one but me
there's no one but you
now you know I know
you're no one too
and all around
both inside and out
there's no one near by
there's no one about
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I am Infinite by Design
Written by PoetryOnPurpose
Poem Published 3rd June 2017 5:22pm
I am infinite by design I am crowned in the image of my ancestors
I am labeled with the name of those who are
indigenous and sovereign in the land
I am washed in the spiritual blood of those
who fought and died for our absolute
existence
I am procreated with the ingredients of my
forefathers and mothers
The essence and wisdom is unmistaken
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Beautiful Black Flowers (Spoken Word)
Written by toniscales
(Lost Girl)
Poem Published 2nd June 2017 10:06am
Hi. I wanted to thank those wonderful people who have commented on my stuff. I want to take more time to respond and be more active on DUP, because it always made me happy to do so. I thought I'd try a spoken word tonight. Just went with the last piece I wrote. My voice is still strange from the mold in my house lol. I'm getting my water turned on tomorrow and I'm so excited. Thanks so much. Beautiful Black Flowers
Every house on my street is neat
And green and trim and linear like
Something out of a Tim Burton or
John Hughes film.
I imagine the grass in my...
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Get Away
Written by bcpoet
Poem Published 31st May 2017 7:24pm
have to get away get away get away
can no longer stay
longer stay longer stay
to a secret place
secret place secret place
always in this space
in this space in this space
have to penetrate
penetrate penetrate
before it's too late
it's too late it's too late
have to enter in
enter in enter in
peace that's deep within
deep within deep within
have to elevate
elevate elevate
can no longer wait
longer wait longer wait
can no longer stay
longer stay longer stay
have to get away
get...
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I Guess it's a Choice
Written by Gezus
Poem Published 10th May 2017 1:10am
I've been told I feel this way because I choose to That I don't want to change my habits, or the things I do
That I don't want to be a happy person
I've been told that if I just stick to the meds and play along
Schedule a hundred appointments to tell my doctor they're all wrong
To find a medication that can slowly mask my mind
To hide it from myself so even I won't be able to find
Because how I feel is my fault, my DECISION.
I guess it's an inmates choice to rot away in prison
I guess it's a choice when a man has metal screws
Snug tightly in...
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I have an illness that isn't real
Written by Gezus
Poem Published 10th May 2017 1:03am
I have an illness that isn't real... Something you can't see or touch, but I can feel
Truth be told you can see it, but only if you try
You must see past the mask and through the lie
Past the smile, and the hearty laugh
You must take my walls, break them in half
Reach into my fortress and force me out
My inner demons tug, and pull, they scream and shout
This is their prison, they keep me locked inside
Where I keep myself warm with dreams that died
Things I wanted when I was eleven or twelve
Now lay dead inside my cell
The only dream...
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This Life is for the Taking - inst by Justin Loring
Written by gazellemon
(Brad)
Poem Published 13th March 2017 2:36pm
I'm running out of excuses, This noose is getting tighter,
They tell me I'm a lucky one,
I tell them I am a coward,
I need to answer to myself,
I dance and cry in the shower,
Knocking everything off the shelf,
Blessed with stress but looking for something else,
Look at this mess I made,
I carry shame to every game I play,
What are these stains I carry today?
Nah, I need to change the frame; change what I say,
Stay with the pain, gotta stay focused
I’m the hardest opponent I know it,
I show it in fits, ...
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something pretty
Written by Magdalena
Poem Published 29th January 2017 3:27pm
he was just a glimpse in her slightly tainted view her pill box begged for release and she shoved it deeper
she wants a mountain top romance without the fucked up rules
that make her close down every cell wanting to reach out, to him
.
if she could put herself under his skin without feeling guilt torn
without feeling every fucking precept clawing at her conscious
she would unzip his lost world and crawl inside the empty space
he would feel her before he knew she was there and he'd die to keep her...
©Anita Magdalena 25/01/2017
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Remembering
Written by bcpoet
Poem Published 20th January 2017 5:22pm
I'm all alone I'm all alone
I'm all alone are you?
in a place
where no one can
know what we can do
a private place
a secret place
a place where we become
energized
remembering
everything is one
the sky, the earth
the ocean deep
the space that's in between
atoms, planets
and the stars
awake and when we dream
we're all alone
we're all apart
we're all just moving on
moved by forces
though unseen
to which we all belong
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Nobody
Written by bcpoet
Poem Published 3rd January 2017 5:26am
nobody nobody on and on
nowhere to go
do I belong
in a world of believing
of programmed thought
of all the deceiving
the truth I have sought
is like the white rabbit
it disappears
while I am grabbing
both of its ears
nobody nobody
else can know
all the confusion
the endless show
in which I am central
in which I don't count
in which I am climbing
the hills I must mount
nobody nobody
sparkles like you
to me radiating
your beauty in view
firing sensations
forgot I could feel
nobody but you...
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Layers of Blame
Written by Poetryman
Poem Published 29th November 2016 9:05pm
Sweating bullets unfired from a revolver held within a shaky cold fist Circling the wagons to take cover from the denial of self-diagnosis
Fate cannot be dodged when placing the barrel against a stubborn fools head
Yet until the trigger is pulled a whisper can spread rumors that hope is not dead
The masked secrets that become tucked under the latent layers of the past
Mysteries cloaked in transparent darkness leaving no shadow cast
Remaining obscured in one's own guilt ridden, unhidden memory
So as not to repeat the reticent echoes of a desperado's duplicity ...
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At the End of the Day
Written by Poetryman
Poem Published 19th November 2016 1:00pm
My mind is encumbered with anger and sorrow eating away my peaceable brain Each day new revelations enlighten the road of a prophesied dark revolution
My heart weighs heavy, bleeding with worry, overloaded and full of revulsion
To gain independence from abject Alt-Amerikans raping a divided nation
Though I believe in the alternative peace, no choice is left in electoral defeat
The alt-right is all-wrong and already spreading a new strain of deplorable hate
An ignorant parasite determined to consume what is left of your dogmatic brain
the zombie's...
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