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Best Introspective Poems

Below are the all-time best Introspective poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of introspective poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: introspective, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Do Not Grieve Your Muse
(For My Younger Self)



You have forgotten your muse.
You neglected her, in the hustle and bustle
of city life, in trying to carve a niche,
driving yourself too...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: introspective, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance of Shadows and Storms
Without a shadow's kiss, 
           How blooms a hidden rose?
Without a storm's embrace, 
 ...

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Categories: introspective, blessing, conflict, emotions, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pure Honesty
What’s needed now is pure honesty.
Transparency, please transparency.
What good is there in an illusion?
It will lead to a false conclusion.

Must I inquire of you like...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: introspective, forgiveness, friendship, introspection, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unmasking the Script
In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Categories: introspective, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member As Clear as Daylight
Sometimes we can go all our lives seeing something without really having any insight into what we are seeing. For instance, hands in prayer position....

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Categories: introspective, allegory, introspection, perspective, prayer,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Dream State Self Awareness
soothing your soul self
a knowing within your heart
what is best for you

dream state magic
introspective sureness
living your truth
bathing your soul self

hearing yourself realistically
being the most healthy...

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Categories: introspective, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Alicia Keys
A star awoken, of dreams freely spoken 
All equipped – musicianship 
Unbound to conventional forms, to so adorn
A woman’s worth
Au naturel
Transcendence of thought, unveiled soul
Of...

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Categories: introspective, celebrity,
Form: Shape
On Poetry and Prose
A bridge from colloquial to courtly 
fare
A span where idealism and fantasy 
pair
A railway to the existential realm; 
celestial lair 
A conduit through which rational...

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Categories: introspective, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Tomorrow Doesn'T Come
If we had no tomorrow, 
We’d cherish more each day.
And from the past we’d borrow
the hope that fades away.

All the energy we’ve saved
for a lifetime...

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Categories: introspective, faith, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Eautoscopy
Last night I slipped into an introspective dream
witness of a strange extracorporeal experience
the whole me deconstructed to its raw materials
Dead myself was found a bright...

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Categories: introspective, deep, dream, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Lilibonelle Poetry - To Win a Heart
TO WIN A HEART
To win a heart you must be true.
Integrity, should you win let it be part of you.
You'll find no need for compromise,
True...

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Categories: introspective, integrity, true love, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Wonder
Habitually, feeling an itch to write,
I’m introspective: sitting at the table
over a blank sheet, cherishing my blight
and rust, I think: “What if I'll not be...

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Categories: introspective, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oferta Del Diablo - Part One
The Beast smirked, horns quivering ...
"You know you want to", he said, nodding toward the hills
There, above a dark, gaping wound of earth, Página Sagrada...

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Categories: introspective, adventure, analogy, fantasy, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Poetic Therapy
As we are all part of the same verse,
languages to belong by diverse.
When the pen is mightier then the sword,
rhymed words are the crown of...

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Categories: introspective, 10th grade, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs