Long Self portrait Poems
Long Self portrait Poems. Below are the most popular long Self portrait by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Self portrait poems by poem length and keyword.
Harvest Inferno
Take me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
self portrait, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...
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Categories:
self portrait, 12th grade, 9th grade, anger, angst, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Conversations With a Daughter: Creeps
"Conversations with a Daughter: Creeps"
Time creeps
my beautiful, clever, daughter
Weirdos are us
incorporated
There's that beautiful laugh,
that beautiful smile
Who wants to
belong here
they keep you on
the outer edge
that’s cool,
take all the time...
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Categories:
self portrait, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
The Silkworm's Birthday
"The Silkworm’s Birthday"
Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in a laugh, no bitter pill
magic never rests, like a crystal...
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Categories:
self portrait, chicago, grandchild, imagery, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Self Portrait Dedicated To Leon Trotsky Contest
SELF PORTRAIT DEDICATED TO LEON TROTSKY (by Frida Kahlo)
...
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Categories:
self portrait, allegory, art, political,
Form:
Free verse
Painter duo
Two painters
Two generations
Two minds
But one goal – to observe and to paint
Vincent’s Arles
20th February 1888
He left as snow fell in Paris
Seeking warmth, bright light and colour
Provence beckoned, Arles awaited
Cold welcome soon turned warm
Vincent keen to...
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Categories:
self portrait, art, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
One Hundred Things To Do Instead of Drugs and Alcohol
1. Write a poem
2. Call up an old friend
3. Read a book
4. Make sandwiches to save for later
5. Call your mom
6. Go for a walk
7. Go for a jog
8. Draw fantastical creatures
9. Eat healthy snacks
10....
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Categories:
self portrait, life,
Form:
Free verse
Vincent Van Gogh
Decades of art, and some as oil paintings,
whereat, had most work made in just the last two years.
Persuades the heart, of similar taste, seems,
fair that, Van Gogh's work may be the best than of...
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Categories:
self portrait, art, character,
Form:
Lento
Self Portrait
I’ve painted a picture
High yellows and deep purple.
Erasing the blues.
Though I can’t hide from them, because inside of them,
Lies context clues.
They keep popping up on my canvas, as if it’s some news
I owe...
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Categories:
self portrait, faith, me,
Form:
Verse
Sigh of Sin ? (Part - 2)
the cause of spreading over of the fragrance
from our secret myrobalan to every side of the pillows
is not only such that in the morning
an empty ink-pot says to the rain-water
you are beautiful
it...
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Categories:
self portrait, fantasy
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Interior Mechanism
Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.
I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life has finally caught up with me,
Like a fast car overtaking...
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Categories:
self portrait, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
An Aphoristic Self-Portrait
As a writer, people are my vocation.
As for humanity, men, women
And other abstractions,
Their interests constitute little more
Than my hobby; I can only deal in people.
As soon as I start dealing...
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Categories:
self portrait, celebrity, me, mirror, people, self, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Self Portrait---A Dreamer, a Schemer
I am one breathtaking moment
I am one who is lost or alone
I am one raindrop, or one flowering rose
I am a distant star or a meadow lark
Or one dark cloud that hovers on the horizon
I...
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Categories:
self portrait, self,
Form:
Bio
Van Gogh
Decades of a formula that only he knew about it and drew,
Cascades of his artwork came to a head in his last years,
Glissades of a swan in a lake that only a handful had seen,
Tirades...
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Categories:
self portrait, art, character, mental illness,
Form:
Lento
Once Upon a Ego
Once upon a time there never was an Ego
For it was alive by the breath of wishes of those who were suffocating from it
I carried the cross for being egoist
Had my hands nailed, had myself...
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Categories:
self portrait, character, encouraging, growth, how i feel, identity,
Form:
Epic
Self Portrait
I will start with using my hand as a guide
And in the end I will open my eyes that I will decide
I consider to do this with one thing in mind
I will close my eyes...
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Categories:
self portrait, basketball, beautiful, beauty, confusion, courage, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Sartorial Self Portrait
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Ex Hotelier hangs I, We've Vacancies,
closet not quite empty, merely absentees, ...
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Categories:
self portrait, analogy,
Form:
Sonnet
Delusion
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion - Jim Rohn
Without meaning, your mind may portray delusion,
so some search for answers to end this illusion.
Is it that simple to cleanse a life from confusion?
When...
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Categories:
self portrait, analogy, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Sestina
Gustav Klimt
He was the son of Ernst, an immigrant gold engraver,
his devoted mother Anna was a gifted musician-
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was but one of seven children,
all three talented sons were in constant competition....
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Categories:
self portrait, art,
Form:
Quatrain
Spice Drawer
I cannot read small labels, my eyes don’t see so well
The labels on my spices: a culinary hell.
I came up with a system; it’s pretty hard to beat,
‘Cuz most of what I cooked before was...
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Categories:
self portrait, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
In the heart of inner wanderings hides, alas, a tormented soul
In the heart of inner wanderings hides, alas, a tormented soul,
Wilted by anguishes woven at the edge of the mind, where the thread breaks.
In verses, the silhouette of an overwhelming sadness takes shape, a landscape...
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Categories:
self portrait, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Little Moment In the Universe
I was to be in a film during the pandemic
To deliver a public service message
From a chair
Crew re-arranges the screws of the room
Seals the blinds and sets up equipment
Makeup lady approaches me
Surgical mask binding her...
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Categories:
self portrait, age, art, beauty, desire, lust, sensual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Its Just A
If you walk around our house…and I say this candidly…you probably wouldn’t give a second thought to some of the things you see.
You’d probably miss that piece of wood in the corner…if you walk by...
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Categories:
self portrait, inspiration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Self-Portrait of Life
As I draw my eyes I think about what I have seen, what I have witnessed, what I have turned my eyes away from with but a blind stare, and all those special moments I...
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Categories:
self portrait, adventure, death, fear, imagination, inspirational, life, loss,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Self Portrait
You’re only as good as your last.
—my spine, mid-fold
I enter a contest
like I enter most rooms:
looking for sound no one’s made yet.
I don’t chase strange—
not all weird is created equal.
Once I find it though—
the mirror...
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Categories:
self portrait, self, writing,
Form:
Free verse