Best Ownself Poems


The Clown

The Clown

a living metaphor

of what you see

and who it is

Still learning

to make a funny face

to walk differently

to perform 

before an audience

A juggling fool

with worn out socks

in waiting for an applause

to satisfy a world

of melanchony

delirium,and expectations

Wearing the big black shoes

bigger than it's being

Keeping balance

of the imbalance

to nurture hungry mouths

that survive on half a planet

or what is left

To feed human shadows

which await the big blushed nose

and stretched out lips

Which await the mask

that veils turmoil and pain

The Clown

with a spirit to live

and a heart to die

is back in full circus

Splashing colours

on shades of grey

The Clown

a living metaphor

A tear away

from its ownself

The heterozygote twin

in the mirror

of a mortal smile

is back in town

and coming out to play.

If I Were You

If I were you
 And you were me
 i knew your sorrows 
 And you felt pains of me.

 All roots of misunderstanding 
 Live in the heart of  unknowns 
 We  don't know well about each other 
 So misconceptions lead the differences. 

  If  elders were youngsters 
  And youngsters were elders 
  They knew each other's needs 
 Thus disputes never sprout their seeds. 

All you wanted to know about me
Same i wanted to know about you 
if you want war and disputes should dwell in hell 
then  we shouldn't afraid to make World well. 

  If some day a miracle happens 
  All men and women change their gender 
  They can feel needs of each other 
  Thus Respect and dignity hurt never. 

 If humans were Nature 
 And nature were humans 
 Think what we get from Nature 
 And what we return holy Nature 

 What is the worst in the world?
 Consider ownself merely right in the World. 
 If all persons are right 
 Then how deadly weapons get birth to fight.

Contest of Most Beautiful Person

As i heard about the contest
 'The most beautiful person'
  i packed my luggage hurriedly
  and ran in search of that lucky person.

  First of all i recalled my teacher
  leisure time creation of the God
  if eye may judge the winner was she.
  But me and my friends were bitten
  several times ,without beautiful heart
  how can  winner may be she.

  Next i saw a body builder
  well balanced muscles and bones
  But he was soon lost the contest
  because he was made 
  for ownself not for others.

   All Physical beauty killed by time
  so smart personalities lost charm
  to win the most beautiful person
  contest without more harm.

  After that i saw half naked boy
  sharing his alms with stray dog
  unwilling i followed him
  to declare the most beautiful
  but regret he kicked the same dog
  when it followed him in love.

  So the search for most beautiful person
  is still on if anyone meet a person
  who have the beautiful heart
  at universal place and universal time
  Give regard ,the title and salaam
  on behalf of me and mankind.


There's No One Like Mama

Mama,hush hush me to sleep,lullaby me to dream,take me to bed,kiss my 
forehead,as you cover me with perfumed white linen sheets.mama,i 
burnt my finger,i bruised my knee,but with a brush of your kiss,all 
heals suddenly,mama's love miracle be.mama,tnks for the food,the baked 
cannelloni,taste yummy and good,and on my birthday,some chocolate 
cakes ,my beautiful sweet mama,bakes.mama,there is no one like mama 
all over the world,mama is the most enchanting word.Mama,with your warm 
blue eyes,your face full of smiles,you bless me,as from behind the 
window,watching me go,you wave in goodbyes. mama,a woman so 
faithful, in your believes,you taught me the beauty of God in all things,
in oceans,in skies,in flowers and green velvet leaves.Mama you taught 
me to pray,to live day by day,to share with all others,to love my 
ownself,your little girl born on the first of May.Mama,a dedicated 
mother,a dedicated wife,for better ,for worse,in sickness,in health,
you're strong,you survive.  Mama,there is no one like mama,
your heart full of compassion and love.My mother,my friend,a blessing,
God's greatest give from above,"Mama" ~the yellow rose in my garden. .
                               I love you mama.

The Broken Pieces

I sat under the grey shadow of the gloomy night
Raising the closed curtain of the darkest day's flight
My heart subdued the voice of my inner shrine
Wiping the droplets of tears that wet my chine

I sat dumb hiding my impotence under the downy pillow
Unable to forget your pinched face that shot a thousand bolts into the clear billow

Would you forgive me if I just said a simple sorry?
Would that perturbed darkness on your mother's face bring back my glory?
Who is to be cursed in the stillness of this direful dream?
Who is to be put at fault amidst the leftover cherries of the melting cream?

Is it the almighty for his inhuman act of snatching your ability?
Or
Is it me for driving you into the envelope of the shooting debility?

I cannot forgive my ownself for this act of mine
I'ld like to one day witness your smile enlightening the global shrine

Yeah!
Only that can give me peace 
Washing away the broken pieces of my guilt




P.S.   I wrote this poem as I felt broken when I couldn't convince the head of our institution from sending a child who was differently abled away from the school. He has become so close to me and he loved me so much. He was kept in the school just for one week and I used to take very good care of him. As the boy behaved differently from the rest of the children, he was sent out of the institution. I couldn't do anything about that as I was not the decision maker. I couldn't convince the management as well. No one was to be  blamed there. It's the management's duty to think about the other children as well. That night I couldn't sleep and something pinched me from inside. I still am not able to forget the face of that child. He gave a deep look towards me that asked me a thousand questions for which I had no answer.

The Other

The other!!
who is the other?
The other:is anyone
who is different from me,
from my believes.

The other :is the alcaholic
who can't stop drinking,
The other:is the drug addict
who doesn't have more space 
where to inject himself.
The other:is the prisoner in
his cell forever for an act he did,
after his horrible upbringing.


The other:is the homosexual
not accepted by his parents,
cos of his sexual orientation.
The other:is the scyzophrenic 
 who is in an institute locked forever,
instead of cured.

The other:is the neighbour 
in my street who does not
vote for democrats ,like me!
The other is the muslim,
hindu,protestant,
who doesn't share 
my catholic believes.
The other:is another neighbour
with  nice dark skin,
 whilst mine is white 
as a dove.
  
we're different but....

Ilove:the other
Ilove:the other as my ownself-charma


Deadbeat Dad's

All these years at home, me and my momma alone
Daddy on the run, headed for the sun, he must of been..
Because I obviously wasn't his sunshine

Growing up wishing you were there when I had something to say
But now it's on pause, just like I am to write this
There's no more fightin' it, I hate you daddy
And I love writing it

All the love and hate will come out, I'll be spittin' **** you
And failure out of my mouth. And when I stop talkin'
I'll be in a craze, glaring at him
With my hate my hate and rage gaze

I'll kick up my feet, scuff dirt in his face
Tell him I put weed and lines of cocaine in his place
And enjoy the disgrace upon his face
And tell him that it's his fault for tappin' out in the first place

Left alone in this world of demons
Trying to find my halo in this crazy maze
Raising myself, daddy left
And mommas worrying about her ownself

Life ain't always a perfect song, it skips and studders
Fear, something nothing can cover
My will is what I discovered, feelings uncovered
She starts thinking and wonders

Here dad, I'm gonna use brain
Yeah, I'm a smart ass
Fourteen years later 
And I'm pouring my heart out, at last

Making it my point, I'm taking off my mask
Getting it off my chest, and laying these demons to rest

But **** me and the way I lived
Playing dirty and not letting my emotions show
Couldn't find mine
So I stole someone else's halo

But used it as a frisbee and chased it to hell
Spittin' cards now with cruela di'ville
And I know you're here too, in this fiery hell
I'll find you and the corner in which you dwell
And when I do, *******
You won't be slithering no more
I'll take off you're scales one by one
Make you the one who's coming undone

Scatter your ashes on hells front door
Bye daddy, now I'm the one who's leaving
I'll shut it, make sure I slam it
Throw in a **** you and god damn it

God sure damned us alright
But don't worry, I'll be sleeping tight
Nightmares at night, no more
I found my heart at my core

Survivin', tryin'
Leaving this life behind 
And one last thing to the guy
Calling himself my ****ing dad
I'm better off without you
Bull**** if I'm gonna let you haunt my mind

End of rhyme, I'm the one
Leaving you behind this time.

Life- Chapters

When a baby take birth in this synthetic world
The joyness of parents on peak happiest moment in world
After the passing time a baby get admired and enjoyness in all peak
Everyone in the worls who knows him love him care him on the peak

Time is passing chapters are now going to opened
With the youngness stress is started it may little home worked
Now the time to make baby to a young one in the world
Situation going to be reversed everyone aspected dreaming from him

Now the baby who give happiness to world is now symbol of sadness
Now the to fall in love searcing for that someone who care for him.
Finally foung his own love by someone
Now again the happiness is on peak

Chapter of happiness get closed with the time
Broken trust feeling emotion care and all such type of word
The word alone is best friend for him
Now the hates the everything even ownself

Feeling finished care finished aloneness get to admired
Life is now worst for him and the frustation take him to the heaven
Lifes chapeters continued how much happiness and how more much sadness
It all the thing get finished at the end of the boy in the world


Avnesh yadav

Premium Member The Pursuing Self - a Collab

Bestowed with life by One powerful Divine
Gracious with His love scintillating shine

I traverse roads: rose and weeded grounds
Flaming with a soldier's will to expound

From dawn begins my journey til sun sets
So many roads bided, my ownself to sweat

Courage bullets, I fire and fire
Pursuing success my ringing desire

Wait! hold on,don't go fast, echoes
Rush runs may thud a sporadic tempo
 
I have seen caterpillars dying as butterflies
Buds bloom, spreading aroma, by-and-by

The angelic aroma invites prosperity brush
It's rouge shows maturation like royal flush

Bravely. I go forth to reach every dream
Conquering beyond foggy upstream

If my own-self, a rebellion, resisting me
Earthquake moan to call a break-free.

Kaleidoscope faces became my preachers
A halo or a tail experience: my teachers

Tricky battalion of pressures stressing
Yet, camouflage trials bomb to blessings

Rewarding me with laughter and tears
Adding tons of memories to my years

Evolving beautiful to each season stir
Wisdom and love, now, my own myrrh

If I shall die this very day,
I hope my legacy not a dismay...

(C) Olive Eloisa and Malik Yaseen
9:38pm
September 23, 2014

Revenant

" Revenant "

In direction unforeseen yet then 'nother am I drifted~
Winds have their way & through my whims have thus sifted~
Yet oft have been waves of similar significance~
Which may have been received with much less cognizance~

‘Tis said now & agin' were a man a bit more old~
Those truths which he ushered forth might not be so bold~
Were now I to be one o'the wiser & thusly called sages~
Methinks I'd be a'lookin' far far back through familiar ages~

Mebbe to those times of youth & greater glee~
Mebbe along those lines of women set so free~
Mebbe I'd look agin' & in so doin' so see~
Truth were so simply there right inside o'me~

‘Twere thoughts o'the mermaids all was it were~
If'n battles so waged created in mind still a stir~
I'd be a'not so a writin' this here little rime~
Nor fer certain would it be now not about time~

Nay say I naught ever dids't methinks~
Wherever whenever I took all me drinks~
‘Twere it so written in those stars way aloft~
Fer me to have grown old & verily so soft~

Fire dids't I breathe fer so so many o'those years~
Darin' & dancin' fer never a'knowin' such fears~
Damn'd so now to be found such a'thinkin'~
Lookin' yet agin' fer all maids to be a'winkin~

‘Tis silly methinks I've grown through these times~
So silly that methinks most always in such rimes~
Yet therein lies such question as to m'self must I ask~
‘Twas wha'for such a reason ye've taken yerself to task~

Aaaarrrrgh! Revenant! Thus I rumble from a'deep~
Awakenin' me ownself from greatest o'sleep~
‘Tis questions which do so bother me now all a'bluster~
‘Tis sense so common I'm a findin' hard to a'muster~

Answer me now those of ye in the know~
When where & wha'for does this wind now so blow~
I'm fer certain left with not any reasonable quip~
To any I'd be grateful fer any such a tip~

Nay nay now belay that I've just asked of ye all~
Fer were it fer certain time 'twouldn't be any such a ball~
Methinks I'll so settle back agin' in me familiar wild waves~
Takin' naught but those pleasures such as that which I craves!

SeaWolf
©

None of Your Business

Every touch of decision,
Cast in the breeze,
Gaining velocity,
Coldness of the soul,
Firely outpour rage reaching strife outcome.
Poisonous darts laughing vainfully,
Engaging anyone on it's path.
Rapid strength,
Spread wide in areas of innocent. 
Only to see fall,
Hearts of gold,
Shattered to chillness abyss.
Concern I should let be,
Keeping to my ownself?
One is correct,
But it is a battle within me,
Turning heart's head,
Looking somewhere else in pretend,
Accknowledging that wolves are still among the human race.

Thar: the Deserted Land

All men have born desires 
    garland of the prettiest arm. 
    Want to meet in the loveliest Place 
    Where no hurdle no harm. 

    She was waiting to Mr right 
    Spider webs to trap just right. 
    The sea of sand was all over
    But emotions not mood to over. 

    Mirage born ownself in hot summer 
    Desert to quench herself 
    From the blood of the craziest
    Creatures , mad behind the mates. 

   The thirsty traveller no mood
   To give up so easily. 
   Move forward in the Thar desert 
   With wised steps gradually. 

     She was standing in isolated  land
    The desert at not present water tank.
    To hug her crazy moth which 
    Will add a more number in her hunt.

    Mirage produces in sunny noon
    In sand to catch unknown fellow. 
    My friend was almost mad behind Angel 
    Don't recognise the upcoming fellow. 

     The body and the soul were thirsty 
     Very strong these were both. 
     No one ready to move back
     So he travelled to quench both. 

   Now the real world and the real goal 
   Feet scored miles and miles to go.
   Which goal post he wanted to goal
   Still, didn't have a hole to goal.

   His breath was leaving without any alarm
   My feet were freezing without cold.
   Dearest few steps your can make me alive 
   If you want to save ,without delay hold.
  
    Come on, come on my kind princess 
    Come on my sweetheart 
    I have left the world far behind 
    Come on and hug me , if don't mind. 

     Break hurdle from surroundings 
     Break chains of illusion own self 
     Stretch hands to welcome me
     Come out from the fairy tale thyself. 

    Don't become very shirty 
    I am not behaved as dirty
    Please, quench  body and soul's thirsts
    No one can do this except you buddy. 

   I am dying without water
   Millions yards I covered for you
   Looks insufficient to meet you
   But remaining must cover you.

   But regret she was unmoved 
   And so friend was lying unmoved.

Premium Member Be True To Yourself

accept your future,
preordained for you,
without fear or doubt;
living your purpose,
be true to yourself.

“to thine ownself,”*
have inner faith
in your purpose,
especially.

worthy goals:
seek justice
cherish life

love truth
loathe hate

fate.


*an allusion to William Shakespeare's "to thine own self be true."
written May 30, 2021

Military Awards and Medals

Awards and Recognition

They patted selves on their very own back;
They do have all things which we will lack;
Am so sore,
We are poor,
Live in towers while we survive in a shack.

Many things medals and awards are about;
Who is the one who can give the most out;
Never sure,
Or can endure;
In whole system  we do have much doubt.

People are upset like a boiling over kettle;
May meddle with system regarding medal;
Should correct,
Need for respect,
And this subject we should start to settle.

This could also apply to gerrymandering.

A new battle has become part of the game plan.
Who can give out the most awards and medals?
My company and the commander looks the best 
when he gives out the most medals and awards.
Here is what I did so I could make mockery of
the system.
I had prepared my own request for the Army 
Commendation Medal for my ownself. We were
in the final formation at Annual Training. The 
actual Washington Army National Guard 
Adjutant General was giving out awards. He
came up to me and was in the process of giving 
me my award. He started reading the narrative.
He was about half the way through with the 
narrative. He stopped and with a big smile said
that no one else in the world could have written
and prepared this other than me. The whole
Battalion broke out laughing. That was the most
meaningful experience I ever had in my carreer.
This is all absolutely true and correct. I had been
preparing awards for soldiers for over 20 years,
and this was a reflectiob of it. 

James Thomas Horn
Personnel Administrator
Company C 3d Battalion 161st Infantry Mechanized
Washington Army National Guard (WAARNG)
17230 NE 95th
Redmond, WA 98052-3226

It is no longer in existance. WAARNG headquarters
is about three miles away from the AMTRAK Train
crash in Dupont, Washington. This is the longest
entry I have ever made. Characters remaining are
less than 700.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.

That Girl,

that girl ?
tha girl who smiles regardless of thee situation..
thaa girl who talks extremely too much whn she's bored,
thaa girl who everyone calls weird, but thats only because they don't understand why she does what she doess,
thaa girl who laughs all goofy whn she doesn't wnna say tha wrong thangg,
thaa girl who everyone comes to for advice, but dnt kno that she cnt even give her ownself advicee,
thaa girl who puts a smile on everyone else's face even whn she cnt put one on her own,
thaa girl who cries behind closed doors , & that girl who keeps it all a secret until she's around that one person she trust,
thaa girl whose friends thank that her family is crazy, but only to find out that they cnt even get alone,
thaa girl who does almost everything backwrds,
thaa girl who blames herself for EVERY mistake, but only to TRY to & make it a lesson learned, 
thaa same girl that everyone calls REAL, but they dnt understand that she jus NEVER bites her tongue,
thaa same one who everyone says is maturee for her age & has bigg dreams,
thaa one who has always promised herself that she'd make her momma proud regardless of her decisions,
thaa girl whose heart is  FULL of wisdom, but she doesn't even kno where it comes from
thaa girl who ALWAYS fall for HIS typee,
& ALWAYS end up in thee same position EVERY time..
thatt same girl whose hiding a secret from one of her friends, but she's afraid her friend may never understand......
 
ths girl.... that girl.... that same girl.... is me, because I'm that girl

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