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Best Self Expression Poems

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Premium Member Self Expression
I am
  one has
    to say
sudden
understanding
    a conception
       emerging
a
refinement
fully
realised
 and
  ...

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Categories: self expression, self, word play,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Self Expression
Color flows from the void and 
hands swing, sway across a canvas; 
to the music of the life;
erecting a universe.

The pulse of existence
beats out its...

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Categories: self expression, peace, philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Expression Expressed
Why do I self-express and share, indeed?
          For I am but a "dark and troubled seed"...

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Categories: self expression, appreciation, introspection, motivation, poetry,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Sienna in Season
I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.

I worked...

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Categories: self expression, autumn, beautiful, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Heart's In the Write Place
Dear promising poet,

for me, modern poetry provides a peek into a poet’s inner world. Through this artistic medium, a poet speaks in expressive language of...

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Categories: self expression, encouraging, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Prose



Poetry Is Poetry
I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an...

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Categories: self expression, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Advice
Advice to the me I used to be:
Always take time for poetry.
To say what you need to say
take pen in hand and play.
Somehow find the...

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Categories: self expression, introspectiontime, time,
Form: Nonet
Difference
5/20/17



Consider this
Trying to make a difference
Instead of showing ignorance

Regardless of if we're able to relate
I'm willing to do what it takes
Instead of letting it all...

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Categories: self expression, integrity, journey, life, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dare To Bare
My muse stays in the background
when work takes up my time,
as soon as I’m relaxing
she comes – partner in crime.

She begs with much insistence
inclined to...

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Categories: self expression, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Window On the World
WINDOW ON THE WORLD

My mind born free, like the autumn wind
it blows gently across the flushing meadow,
touching the petals of the flowers it finds
with expressive...

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Categories: self expression, analogy, people, poetry, world,
Form: Rhyme
A Poets Revelation
My rhymes are not to stimulate
Nor accommodate for the way you feel
But it is who I am
That is the admiration 
Behind my self-expression

Regardless of imagination...

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Categories: self expression, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Playful Muse
 A palette of the mind,
Crayola colors now entwine
and symmetry thus unwinds
life is never color-blind.

Dreaming seas of abstract bliss,
waves of chromatic kinesis;
I would be, oh...

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Categories: self expression, appreciation, art, imagination, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Panic In the Panic Room
At last I was a fruitful writer, and my new novel was selling well,
Like the stars of a moonlit evening, putting lovers under a spell.

I...

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Categories: self expression, anxiety, books, fantasy, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, Ky
Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, KY

I traipse the course of a forking, rambling stream
Barefoot from the rounded top of one small boulder
To another, the slashing...

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Categories: self expression, christian, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vase
Bulbous, flat, keel-like ridge, and in other shapes I see you,
Curved or carved; you shine painted in red, green, purple, or blue;
As the rainbow is...

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Categories: self expression, flower, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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