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Best True Self Poems

Below are the all-time best True Self poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of true self poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: true self, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: true self, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true self, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Tears
My love for you is magnified
By the curvature of my tears
I'm lost within the corridors
Of my loving you all these years

My tears are not filled...

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Categories: true self, heart, love, wife,
Form: Quatrain
To Jan Allison About Our True Real Self
Introduction: Our real problem is, "Will we ever be able to learn who our true, 
real self really is?" Being true to and with ourselves...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true self, inspirational, sad,
Form: Couplet



Finding Ones Self
Some who wish to find their true self, fearfully resist becoming lost.




December 14, 2017...

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Categories: true self, growth,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Blank White Paper
Blank white paper
Infinite hope, endless promise 
An inspirational instrument

The artists canvas and lawmakers device
How an absent lover expresses love so precise

So much to say, I’m...

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Categories: true self, hope,
Form: Narrative
When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman
........... her true self she shows

When she is honest with herself
............her confidence glows

When she reacts with expression 
.........with all...

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Categories: true self, self, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Masked
What is this feeling
This feeling deep down in my soul
Eating away at me
Threatening to tear away my flesh
And unmask me as someone completely different
Than who...

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Categories: true self, for teens, how i
Form: Dramatic Monologue
4 Letters
4 letters can describe us all
Sane, Slim, True, Tall

ironic and solemn
Your 4 letters Will change
Love. Hate.
Here. Gone.

simplistic and short
yet complex and infinite

Baby to Wife
Wife to...

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Categories: true self, death, metaphor, sin, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whiskey Lips So Sublime
Whiskey Lips So Sublime

Whiskey Lips step now over the line of true fire-water,
As a warm-burning brings forward one glowing sign.
The golden mead of sweet mountain...

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Categories: true self, allegory, celebration, fun, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years...

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Categories: true self, depression,
Form: Prose
The Way
I'm often in conflict with childlike creatures
They'd prefer to receive The Truth
in a nicely decorated package
embroidered with flattering designs
presented sweetly to their ears
Perhaps I'll be...

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Categories: true self, inspiration, life, philosophy, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I saw God, but now what poetry contest
"Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed is assimilated, by...

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Categories: true self, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Yourself and No One Else
If you lived to tell a lie  about your true identity then you never lived at all. 
Emotionally in the inside you might break...

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Categories: true self, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs