Best Selfhood Poems

!!~My Lost Selfhood~!!
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"While, 
I were busy in thinking 
over the cosy chair.
I found 
my inner soul missing
in intoxicating air.
Then, 
the dense darkness 
of fog arose.
In...

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……A lone survivor of a plane crash

A man of sound and reason, 
   standing tall and proud, 
But a voice of lies and...

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Your poetry is dark, Mark Strand.
I want to emulate it as I hate
each line.  I want to cast it out,
then hold it to my...

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Tireless Universe
                    by Odin Roark

Time defies...

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It’s not just bricks and mortar
Nor a distant memory 
But the ground roots of our livelihood
And our future destiny. 

As this place prepares to close...

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(A Spoon River Poem)

You loved me well, you loved me long,
even with joy fading from my eyes,
my beauty your heart's silent song,
and sorrow hidden in...

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She is fire
Raging red and hot through all that surrounds her.
She entices you, drawing you in,
Like a moth to her flame,
Just to singe your wings.
She...

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Never in those sizzling conflicts
displaying the pink eyes
you were able to reach me.
Was it metagenesis,
forgetting your selfhood?

Fragments of a beast were floating on sea.
Was umblicus...

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Please forgive me my love for I am not in my right mind
dysphoria has taken over me. It's a merciless disease that shatters my liveliness
do...

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It took me time to embellish 
myself
And long to reach you!

And there I stand confronting 
you and lionise,
Behaving uncontrived and 
candid!

And now you waste golden...

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Lightening all you have betrayed
Enlighten the darkness in your brain
Illuminate all you can perceive
From contamination to disease

The voices of hunger will remain
Seeking the power to...

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The sky was brushed by flame
and all of nature round about
seemed to joyously shout
the Divine ineffable name./

Orange, green and pulsating violet appeared
achingly wondrous - radiantly...

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Library ~ daytime, empty, shelves are stacked
book for every reason, season, nothing lacks
waiting for the internet, it's Oh so-o-o fast
and my mind might diminish, with...

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Entangled in the boggy land of doubt,
And entrapped in the choices' web,
My will is melting…
To stand on the peak of selfhood,
And look down on all...

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