Self Poems | Examples of Self Poetry

When I am weary, feeling small,* I pray because I know God cares. The love of God, who made me, is supreme; no other love compares. When troubled waters, rough and deep, torment you, when you sigh and weep, your fervent...Read the rest...

I don't know what I am The dream from which I'm waking has left me in a trance A dissociated state kept separate from yesterday Where the immediate is all there is of me at all There is nothing...Read the rest...

The Beatles wrote ‘Please, Please Me’ - ‘the way I please you’ ... When the sole criterion is pleasing ~ ...Read the rest...

Trapped inside... cannot speak... like a hostage... vulnerable and weak... silent screams... breath so deep...   pray for release... in an unconscious sleep... the depth of pain... lies dormant and caged... matter of time... before fully enraged... silent whispers... circling its prey... carefully rehearsing... it must have its way.. it feeds on...Read the rest...

A cold wind. Whatever was here has fled inside or has curled up in a corner somewhere out of sight and gone to sleep. Footpaths are tiled in the wet, skeletal remains of leaves and tree trunks have begun...Read the rest...

Minds stratify in webbed design. In lone life’s strata snares align, make psychic patterns unify. In webbed design minds stratify. In mind’s layers dark secrets hide; prying can’t find from world outside. Restrained silent mind never cares, dark secrets hide...Read the rest...

As the sunlight fades to black And the air begins to chill ever so slightly I’m laying in the soft grass Staring at the millions of stars And I’m thinking How it seems so unfair That so many struggle...Read the rest...

Dave Reflective, questioning, introspective, introverted Father of Daniel Lover of Daniel, music, and mathematics Who feels wonder, gratitude, and sentiment Who fears climate change, nuclear war, and ill health Who would like to see a passenger pigeon, a...Read the rest...

It's so easy to look with envy at others thinking satisfaction can be won by taking to yourself what they've got when in the end you don't have fun Comparing yourself with others is never such a good idea for you...Read the rest...

He was 6 foot 3. I was 5 foot 5. My only thoughts at that moment were staying alive.. Caught in the tenacles of his grip, helpless as I witnessed my top rip.. My bra lifted up as mammoth...Read the rest...

Accustomed to be the sunshine of the sun, Attuned to catch up with all the fun, Worn myself, all to gain love from trust, While may this be true, it all is just nothing, A piece of paper driven...Read the rest...

Ken, they all say painters paint best When they're torn apart, Music sounds best When it hurts your heart, Love’s ONLY real When it crushes your soul, made into broken shards So, is this why you left With a broken...Read the rest...

frolicking consciousness joyous, content, complete in time dissolved peace renews itself within itself in subjective awareness beheld by eyes of totality one and as the heartbeat of the absolute noumena resplendent in its luminosity...Read the rest...

It’s a long journey from where I’m from. Light years away. And then some. Your TV transmissions kept me entertained. But the News worried me. Perhaps more than it should have. Upon my arrival I...Read the rest...

Holding onto a rail. I lean over to see my reflection mirrored in the water and small fish swimming in the camouflage of me. I muse whether they are feeding on my thoughts, nibbling on the strands that loosely float my...Read the rest...