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Best Selflove Poems

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


In Parts
You can not love someone in parts
It is not fair to judge 
the worst of someone new
against the best of someone in your past
And darling, that...

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Categories: selflove, confidence, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Inner Strength
I hope you heal – from no apology
I hope you heal – from Un - reciprocated love
I hope you heal – from the emotional abuse
I...

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Categories: selflove, strength,
Form: Free verse
Remember Your Roots
Africa is the best place for every peaceful
people to be,
Remember you belong to Africa and come
back.

Your ancestors tried their best to come back
home but they...

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Categories: selflove, africa, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Caramel
To my sisters who will never realize how much I love them,
Who I hope will never have to know the world hates them-
Because their skin...

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Categories: selflove, beautiful, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Life's Blessings
A girl with innocent heart is here,
She loved a boy who was practical everywhere,
Surprisingly he proposed her with a rose
And she too was ready to...

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Categories: selflove, anniversary, birth, blessing, child,
Form: Ballad



Darker
You feel like you would be darker for me than 
I would have ever seen
But trust me, my friend...no one else could 
ever be darker...

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Categories: selflove, confusion, dance, dark, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
-hopeless Romantic-
I want to be a strong and gentle lover,

Who grows insatiably lovesick in sweet parting from the sticky sadness of summer.

I want to be a...

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© Doc Doctor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selflove, allegory, appreciation, desire, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
True Self Is Still Hidden
The true self is still hidden
For me it's not too sudden
Still immature to travel alone
And a girl that is not flown

It's a story of fairy...

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© Snehal Ade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selflove, beautiful, care, cute, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Incredible
There once was a little girly
Who thought she was the best
She was confident so early 
She knew she is different from the rest
But one day...

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Categories: selflove, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer For Self-Image
Help me to
find identity in you
understand my worth
value your standards
recognize my unique qualities
designed by you
Lord, to you I pray

Help me to 
appreciate me
see myself the...

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Categories: selflove, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Caramel
To my sisters who will never realize how much I love them,
Who I hope will never have to know the world hates them-
Because their skin...

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Categories: selflove, beautiful, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Reason
A pain so surreal it leaves you breathless; your dignity thrown out as if it were a mistake to begin with. The sense of nothingness;...

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Categories: selflove, anxiety, appreciation, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Work of Art
My curls are the frame of my temple, my curves an embellishment.
My skin smooth as silk.
My lips fill with contaminate cherries.
Your impenetrable eyes flow everywhere...

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© Moon Light  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selflove, beautiful, beauty, body, earth,
Form: Free verse
Stars On My Face
Freckles and spots more than stars in the sky
Scars and marks visible to the eye
From farther away or close by
No matter what I hold my...

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Categories: selflove, appreciation, body, how i
Form: Rhyme
A Home
A body built on nerves and signals.

So many little paper airplanes,

they fly from head to toe.

Expect when they get stuck in my hands and rattle.

Uncontrollable....

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Categories: selflove, anxiety, body, confidence, for
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs