Ode on Afternoon ThoughtsAt the afternoon solitude sphere,
Every sweet-lane empty seem,
The sun on the top with chirruping hear,
Dark in the room out it deem.
The pressure hits passive-pace,
All nervous gain, sense confuse,
The white-pale depressive-face
Look at mirror to know cause.
Head-ache fills in mind's acres,
Alone eyes still on some fills,
Heart seize with harmful-hackers,
Mild-mourn more remain in miles.
The unpair-unfulfil life led down,
Fall...
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Categories:
introspection, solitude,
Form: Ode
Thought of the day
Categories:
dream, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Those We loveThose we love don't go away,
they walk beside us everyday.
Their murmurs, soft, in tree leaf whisper
defrosts my heart that did grow crisper
with grief that stained inside and out
when I existed with my doubt
that vanished voices of my yesteryear
would come alive and stir the atmosphere.
Breezy hands, they touch my shoulder,
rustling lilac plumes and growing bolder—
as...
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Categories:
grief, introspection, joy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
NightLots to write~ the subject, Night!
Night reveals and covers…
illuminates, and draws shades.
Some insist on dark for intimacy…
while I prefer to navigate by stars.
...
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Categories:
introspection, character, emotions, faith, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
evanesce
( for Mom )
I’ll treasure dear while growing old
I clasped your hand til it waxed cold
a warm so gifted - touch and breath
thus torn from...
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Categories:
analogy, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Rhyme
temet nosce
“I have dreamed a dream … and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.” (Daniel 2:3)
~
TEMET NOSCE
that place …
I know it not -
now, then or ever
the darkness that dwells there
harbors a beast that
I dare not acknowledge or tempt -
that leaps in an instant to
a...
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Categories:
analogy, dark, introspection,
Form: Free verse
cache
on ...
those "some" days
u smile
u wink
u laugh (pity)
sing, maybe
get the "gotta" done
baby steps
(babies can't walk)
still ...
place each foot
put IT on -
the mask
the act
la grande scène
you've perfected it
yeah ...
takes years
but u get it down
HAVE 2
cuz if they
knew what churned
within ...
or, even worse
what DIDN'T
they'd freaking bury
your sorry
aching
empty
ass ...
without 1.
consecrated.
tear.
...
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Categories:
analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Along For the Ride(“The Longest Journey”, 2020, original encaustic)
Along For The Ride
The older I get the less I seem to know
Or even care
And the more I feel a somewhat detached
Observer.
I’m okay with this
Simply because there is no alternative
Although I’m sure a doctor could give me
Some drug or hormone to change my view.
And being okay with it,
Not resisting or...
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Categories:
age, introspection, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Both Sides Now'Both Sides Now' on YouTube Music
by Joni Mitchell
Poet's lyrics:
Bows on solemn flower blooms
and scented layers of flared perfume
flow down rows of headstones and tombs.
I've looked at death that way.
But now I tend to ask God why
people still come and freshly cry.
All know when our precious ones die
He lifts them heaven's way.
I've looked at death from...
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Categories:
introspection, baby, cry, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Poetic Podcast Episode 42The world now is overflowing with filters,
fast five stars, and a multitude of clickbait.
Society has become an abstract definition,
devoid of any type of civilized boundaries.
I want the honesty of naked conversation
and the ability to discover truth for myself.
We have a license to be phony.
Go on I dare you, take off that mask....
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Categories:
emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
How much do you loveDo you still love me Jehovah. If you do, why are my troblems so many. Why are my enemies like the grains of the sand. Why is calamity my predator. I am afraid to chose, to talk, and to act because the repocussion is like an untimely bomb. I chose to serve you, and yet...
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Categories:
introspection, anxiety, betrayal, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse
The River of Lightthe
tapestry of stars
we
flow
at night
shall
weave
the
river of light
red blue and green
with
some indigo
tonight...
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Categories:
introspection, image, imagery, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
ACROPHOBIAsonger.co/song/r8btoho3abg0psszqle86vkb
[Verse 1]
Girl, I’m caught between the thrill and the fall,
Your shadow’s tracing cracks across my wall.
Electric hum beneath my skin,
Addicted to the mess I’m in.
[Pre-Chorus]
Whispers call me higher, but I grip the rail,
Chasing sparks that flicker — I can’t bail.
Every heartbeat’s a quiet fight,
Lost inside your soft, electric light.
[Chorus]
Acrophobia, yet I’m chasing the highs,
Hands shake...
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Categories:
desire, fear, introspection, longing,
Form: Lyric
beyond limit
these days I question more and more
my faiths and what their purposed for
while evil grows to breadths unseen
beyond, it seems, where it has been
oh grant me sense and help me live
...
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Categories:
analogy, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Thank God(Early stage of “Before the Door”, 2023, original encaustic)
Thank God
Waves come and waves go
Relentless as always
Sometimes big, sometimes small
And still they come
But in the end
What more could we ever wish for
Or expect than simply this
And in that is the ultimate solace
Waves come and waves go
And in the end what more could we want
As we...
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Categories:
introspection, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Introspection Poems
Definition | What is Introspection in Poetry?
Poems Related to Introspection
contemplation, reflection, soul searching, scrutiny, meditation, rumination, egoism, self absorption, deep thought, self examination, brooding, introversion, heart searching, self observation, self questioning,