Is AI Friend or FoeIs AI a staunch friend with double face
that whispers “I love you, but will replace
Do its words capture a thought we just had
write it much better; if so, why be mad
Its chest of words is much greater by far
synonym surplus, its door stands ajar
And, by the way, they paint lovely, also
Can there be...
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Categories:
anxiety, future, identity,
Form: Rhyme
He Shall Be Called
A Name
“His name shall be called…”
A great statement of His glory.
Yet immediately we reason,
Let’s compare it to your story.
Many problems loom large.
Deafening sound takes the stage.
Often wronged in the attempts.
Your own advice, you are the sage.
We’re hard at life, trying
To keep...
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Categories:
identity, anxiety, bible, encouraging, extended
Form: Rhyme
Dweller of our Heart
Sponsor : Unseeking Seeker
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inquiry: “the essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun”
“We are liberated from everything & everyone when we know who we...
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Categories:
identity, allusion, character, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Reflection in Their EyesBeing great is in my destiny, they say.
I have a hidden talent, they say.
Am I blind, or is the world buried under sand?
Hidden and being expected to thrive is like sipping air or dust for soul.
Is it just me or is it all of us?
They expect the unexpected but when things go south,
You're left to...
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Categories:
age, family, future, identity,
Form: Free verse
I saw the world through bloodI was looking at the world through my eyes,
curious to see its parallel side.
I had grief because I was seeing it through blood,
but as I heard my praises and insults,
glanced over the beautiful mountains
and growing poverty,
that became my biggest pride —
to witness the world like this.
But when my hand started to grow cold
from the pain...
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Categories:
identity, allegory, allusion, conflict, deep,
Form: Free verse
Love can be materialisticLove is not something that belongs only to a living soul.
It could be anything your soul is tied to.
Neither human nor god,
but something you chose above them both—
that is what love truly is.
You look at it and know you cannot live without it.
It is not a person, nor devotion.
That is love....
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Categories:
identity, deep, growth, how i
Form: Free verse
IN ATTIC HALLSIN ATTIC HALLS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In attic halls of memories past,
I find solace in stories steadfast.
For in the remnants of a life lived and told,
lies the truth of who I am, young and old.
...
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Categories:
age, identity, memory, youth,
Form: Couplet
My sould was killing my flawsI look at my soul killing its flaws. I appreciate it and let it do so. But when I came back to earth to show them a perfect human, I realized my mistakes made me who I am. Without my flaws, I am just a perfect human—but not me.
...
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Categories:
identity, deep, desire, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Crape Myrtles in AugustThe bark peels back like old skin—
Mine, yours, the cinnamon scrolls
Of what we shed to live. August
Bleaches the world to bone, the bark’s faint spice
Rising in the noon glare,
Heat tasting of salt and sand. And still this Crape crowns
Itself with Myrtle fire. Still—
I cannot explain what breaks in me. Still I press my cheek
Against its...
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Categories:
identity, august, change, endurance, growth,
Form: Lyric
NationalsYou wear your flag like a second skin,
the colors bright, the threads worn thin;
And speak of victories long ago,
In voices proud, yet soft and low.
The tales are told, again, again
the triumphs carved in dust and pen;
The papers shout what you should hear,
While silencing what’s less sincere.
You count your coins, you guard your name,
you say it’s...
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Categories:
anger, identity, peace, pride,
Form: Free verse
BLOODLINE ECHOESI walk with a weight that I never quite chose,
But somehow it fits, like the thorn on a rose.
The pain and the beauty, they bloom just the same—
Two sides of a story that whisper my name.
Born of a mother whose roots ran so deep,
But stolen at birth in a silence that still weeps.
They called it...
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Categories:
addiction, culture, identity, mother
Form: Spoken Word
PrisonerDon’t think too hard.
They sting behind your eyes.
Sharp swells
from the recessing snake pit.
Faces warp, wrap, and real.
Knotted limbs
of trying tapestry.
The marriage of scale and skin.
Remember to forget.
My soul was not to keep.
A window woe.
Through eyes not mine, I see.
Take from me
what was yours already.
Prisoner....
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Categories:
identity, absence, abuse, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
LABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARNESS OF THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERSLABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARENESS OF
THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERS
Hey there, where you are now, I feel more than you can know;
In my life’s time, I too, have been there many times before:-
Now, in awareness, I’ve learned that you just have to be the real you;
Not endeavoring to be...
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Categories:
encouraging, identity, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Big Sandy: Recollection in the Free State
The hollow remains unphotographed.
Memory, not landscape, frames it—
a road cleaving winter in two,
children laughing while gravity
negotiated its own terms.
Neighbors spoke without flourish.
Their kindness was practical,
never advertised, always assumed.
You could leave your grief
on the porch overnight;
someone would tuck it in
and leave bread beside it
by morning.
Coal knew every surname
but never asked for praise.
It shaped the valley,
not into...
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Categories:
identity, childhood, community, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Circle of KnowingThe circle turns, its edges smooth
A line that holds, yet... a line that soothes.
Its center still, its purpose clear
A timeless truth that gently... draws us near.
For to walk the circle is to see
The Self as part of infinity.
Its path unbroken, round and true
It holds the many, yet... speaks...
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Categories:
education, identity, life, muse,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Identity Poems
Definition | What is Identity in Poetry?
Poems Related to Identity
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