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The SymphonySometimes, always,
& rather unsurprisingly,
I start to wonder…
why...my heart cannot explain,
the corporeal notes,
of music,
in just a droplet,
of rain.
...
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Categories:
confusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Big Black Birds
The raven caw loudly from tree branches,
as 2 of them argue or emphasize a point
These large birds seem to arrive at times of death
I saw them at a graveyard on a cold winter day
I see...
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Categories:
analogy, confidence, faith, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Zen modeconcepts confine
thought’s not the thing
so we recline
that love may bring
boons that align
for soul to spring
and in the void shine
whence we dance and sing...
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Categories:
introspection, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the day
Categories:
introspection, silence,
Form: Couplet
A Mother's SonA Mother's Son
One had to carry me in her womb for nine months awaiting the day on which I was to come out, Only to be cheated that I'm no longer nine months old.
I've...
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Categories:
absence, appreciation, introspection, mother
Form: Ballad
Blue Smoke And Mirrorswhile
letting the
great magician
pull a white
fluffy rabbit
from out of
a black stove top hat
with
a sleight of hand
only through
the dark arts of
blue smoke and mirrors...
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Categories:
introspection, image, imagery, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Plain AffectedThe forest around her story damning the plains—
The littlest girl seen by the wind through the plains.
Green honey passes just by a bee's swirling wings;
The gold smoothed by her heart; fingers reading the plains.
The likelihood...
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Categories:
angst, future, goodbye, introspection,
Form: Ghazal
Categories:
growth, introspection, life, light,
Form: Haiku
The Edge of OblivionI can tell you that the edge of oblivion is a
comforting place for the wise
Oblivious to the wondering eyes of the layman
that watch, things are seen just as they are
All it takes is a...
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Categories:
introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
DIVINITY
Dive in deep ! Enjoy
awakening from stupor
surpassing torpor.
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Categories:
angel, introspection,
Form: Tanka
We fellthe capsuled module
of our luminescent Self
in bondage to body-mind
hypnotised and thus deluded
strangely attains an equilibrium
with limitation and ignorance
asking light to pay homage
to the befuddled identity
which soul has donned ...
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Categories:
introspection, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Delusion
The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere,
someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive.
Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation,
illumines the pathway of your destined journey.
The free will you make as the mental mural...
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Categories:
analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
Categories:
introspection,
Form: Couplet
Shadow Self, By NatureSpring tones, the blues— creature sky must come down,
For Summer will chip on flowers cut under ploughs,
Power now shared by crows long before Autumn's fast,
And Winter then, snowing hard with a forest's bare; bony...
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Categories:
deep, god, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Pantoum
As Time Goes ByHome Again reprise:
We and Time started
out together but somewhere
Time left us behind
The home of childhood -
a house now owned by others -
resides in the past
When the blush of youth
has matured into wise years,
memories remain
Life's path...
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Categories:
introspection, change, destiny, growth, identity,
Form: Senryu
Specific Types of Introspection Poems
Definition | What is Introspection in Poetry?
Poems Related to Introspection
contemplation, reflection, soul searching, scrutiny, meditation, rumination, egoism, self absorption, deep thought, self examination, brooding, introversion, heart searching, self observation, self questioning,