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Self Image Poems

These Self Image poems are examples of Image poems about Self. These are the best examples of Image Self poems written by international poets.


Premium Member To which image should we cling

Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin...

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Categories: image, analogy, spiritual,



Premium Member To which Image should we cling
mirror tells lies when it looks back at you,
image shown is which you already knew,
does not show your thoughts, wisdom, or feelings,
image not truth, however...

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Categories: image, birth, blessing, death, devotion,

Premium Member To Which Image should We Cling
In a maze of shadows and light, To which image should we cling? Is it the mirage of perfection we chase, Or the raw beauty...

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Categories: image, allusion, identity, self,

Flesh Wounds
The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness...

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Categories: image, appreciation, beauty, body, growth,

Premium Member In Her Eyes
In Her Eyes 


She looks just like you they say and I beam!
But they're saying much more than their saying seems…
For I'd never say to...

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Categories: image, confidence, daughter, emotions,



Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs


Life has many ups...

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Categories: image, child, hurt, life, people,

I Am More Than The Names You Call Me
Do not call me a freak
Loser nerd or even geek
You may think it's funny but
It's like you punched me in the gut
Words painful and very...

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Categories: bullying, feelings, identity, image,

A Walk down the Tunnel
“Darkness does embalm;
All things, getting calm,
Produce an eerie feeling;
Can it serve with a healing?”

“Aye, aye, sure, sure!
Such feelings do us lure,
To approach its end.”
“Can we...

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Categories: image, allegory, atheist, conflict, endurance,

View From the Looking Glass
You say you're old, but I don't see it
Your wrinkles are just lines of wisdom
Your hair is not gray, but silver
Your eyes are not dull,...

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Categories: image, deep, encouraging, how i

Premium Member An Angel Sent By God
An Angel sent by God best describes my mum;
a more loving soul has never walked this Earth.
Mum would bottle preserves: apple, peach, or plum;
cultivate my...

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Categories: image, angel, beautiful, emotions, feelings,

Premium Member Layers
Selfish, keeping myself from high, so it's written. 
Continued strokes to the face seem to change each dawn for the better. 
Force myself not to...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: image, age, art, color, dark,

But mark this: there will be terrible times in the last days 2 Timothy 3:1 part eight
Godlessness in the Last Days

But mark this:  There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will 
be lovers of themselves, [Taking...

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Categories: image, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Premium Member Self Portrait
In the looking glass, a reflection pained,
A self-portrait, a visage marred and strained,
Unrecognizable,  sight hard to bear,
Time-stamped emotions etched, lines of despair.

Pain and loneliness,...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: image, self,

Premium Member I Felt Like A Book
I felt like a book 
very tired old and worn out 
needing rest on shelf....

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Categories: image, feelings, life, old, people,

Premium Member From Light to Shadow
when I block the light
     I then become a shadow
          form without...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: change, dark, image, light,


Book: Shattered Sighs