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Introspection Poems | Examples of Introspection Poetry

Introspection Poems - Examples of all types of introspection poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for introspection.
Premium Member What’s going on here
Self as spirit wishes to feel contrast, flowing as magnetism, each breath reborn, so recognising that the die is cast as we’re being meditated upon, strobes of bliss thunder usher a new dawn. Instrumentalising our lower mind, leaving all imagined knowing...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member A Pleasant Picture
Before you know it time has fallen away, becoming a memory that shall always stay... A moment, the only moment where time stands still... Looking back at a placid picture, defined in gracious hues of a...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, beauty, feelings, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Roots Beneath My Soles
Resilient I am, to be here, to stand as tall as a sunflower. I can hear the cacophony of cicadas outside my window sing with me through my grief. Their trill reminds of blooming chances. As...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, art, deep, flower, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Whispers of Her Prayers
How long have I been holding my breath? How long have I walked this path? It's winding turns make no sense. One after another. There is no sense in this madness, only an interrupting voice...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, deep, growth, how i
Form: Free verse
du Maurier
The door opens, but I am not the new Mrs. de Winter, just an awkward shadow slipping into normalcy, where words are thicker than hardcovers— silence clinging like dust to the spines of books with torn out pages. I wander, but...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, appreciation, books, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Free verse



Dead Things
What can I say I dream about dead things Skeletons in my closet Hanging on hangers with names of people I no longer know They whisper remnants of the past Of times that were filled with laughter and joy Now they’ve...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, extended metaphor, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pro Life Chop Shop
Pro life chop shops sanctity botched chain your baby makers inspect your baby’s crotch laws ban lives hang hangers wrought and bought the worst of how we’re natured belts we’re just another notch fit in or sin resisting a rest existing erased pop up chop shops for furl of...Read the rest...
Categories: abortion, gender, introspection,
Form: Free verse
With Needle And Thread
oh love thy heart is cherry red while stitch together with needle and thread...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edge of Me
Perched on a prominent edge of me, I ache looking through my dream debris. Compelled, I sight a prospective ledge where bits of my gray are shown in sketch. Sadly, no colors of me can I detect. Why does no...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, care, depression, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 4 Quotes
"Beyond the everday, tomorrow hangs with a whisper of opportunity" [] "Wait patiently with a yearning to succeed, for in a silent moment glory shall ring out" [] "Of harsh judgement, is it not ourselves who judge ourselves to...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, destiny, devotion, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are you a Mankey or Monkey
Both are primates, both can smile Though mankeys have no tail. One is wild still and free, The other found in only zoos. Can you guess which one is you? Maybe neither 'cause you're a mousekey? ...Read the rest...
Categories: 3rd grade, humor, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I overheard two characters thinking
I overheard two characters thinking: one about regret, the other about a maiden's pinking. Whether they knew one another, I cannot say, although one looked at the other, while the other looked away. And as one soaped lipstick off...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, memory, poetry, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member IN THE WARM WOMB OF NIGHT
In the womb of night, we contemplate the dawn of the day when we shall all be free of the mind games played to put the liberty of countless generations of us on hold:- The chrysalis moments of the...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, allegory, america, black african
Form: Free verse
Shifting in Stillness
I am learning in a way Sunday teaches In stillness In the pause before the next step In slowness Letting the world hum around me without needing an answer In knowing that growth does not only ask for effort, But presence. Some...Read the rest...
Categories: inspiration, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As If You Care
The oxide earth vapours, the vernal air trembles A dirty white sky overhangs in your glasses Viridian green tints the water, it shambles The exuberant stems of the lilies and grasses Like women with oars punt in David Brayne's...Read the rest...
Categories: feelings, introspection, spring,
Form: Rhyme

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Book: Reflection on the Important Things