Another Chance
...I see a massacre
of a thousand different versions of myself.
The leaves flutter,
heralding the only living specimen of myself.
I've always been a warrior
but it's a lonely night.
Sometimes i w...
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Categories:
self loathe, endurance, growing up, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Scouring Self-Loathing
...Evict me from this grimy house
My son asked me what self-loathing is
His home still occupied with laughter
I was taken aback by his cleanliness
I told him it gathers like dust over time
Sweep m...
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Categories:
self loathe, bible, depression, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Right Into This Traffic Jam
...I have issues with the sun
It burns
It burns so much these days
It burns it hurts my face
Yet I am going out now
Right into this traffic jam
Right when the sun is big and bright
Where is dawn?...
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Categories:
self loathe, blue, deep, depression,
Form: Verse
The Art of Self-Destruction
...I am the queen of self destruction.
Ritualistic Razor sharp scrutiny of my reflection -
constantly spewing hate at my mid-section,
whilst effortlessly faking the pursuit of perfection.
A crum...
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Categories:
self loathe, bullying, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Heal
...Breath in sea’s
Briny silence
Expel
Scathing whispers
Hush tireless ...
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Categories:
self loathe, anxiety, cheer up, depression,
Form: Verse
Self-Loathe
...Drowning in this whirlpool of emotions and facing the darkness myself
Cyclones of flower petals pour all over the floor
Their beauty I compare to myself
Being force-fed the concept of beauty ...
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Categories:
self loathe, anxiety, bullying, hate,
Form: Free verse
My Greatest Sin
...To dismiss any possibility before it even came
In our youthful lives was a an awful shame,
As I looked upon your eyes I saw the light
That I never deserved even with all my might.
I have succ...
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Categories:
self loathe, absence, beauty, emotions, for
Form: Rhyme
Good God, Me
...*internal thinking* "Well, this is new. Maybe I should try this out…
I'm sure you can do it!
You're totally a great writer.
But, why do you want to try something that frustrates you?
Let's try ...
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Categories:
self loathe, adventure, courage, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
To the Darkie
...True beauty defined by that which is isolated
The loathe for that which is natural.
An internal abhor, despising her vivacious soulfulness.
It is the pigment she is hated for
It is the excessi...
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Categories:
self loathe, color, racism,
Form: Carpe Diem
Skepticism
...I've been such a twisting winding road.
The road that only leads back to me.
The feeling of self contempt only
thickening with every wasted day gone by.
Struggling through the self loathe, ...
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Categories:
self loathe, addiction, anger, anxiety, change,
Form: Free verse
Nostalgia
...At the core exists his emptiness
Spineless unrest smothers him
All due to nature’s wavering obscurity
And stumped awareness of inherent security
Fear took charge and penetrated his inner skin
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Categories:
self loathe, absence, emotions, encouraging, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Shoelace
...A shoelace, one that snags and tears when you try to tighten your shoe too tight.
Who would have imagined,
could be a tool used to take my daddy's life.
Alcohol and drugs, a swirl of depression...
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Categories:
self loathe, dad, death, suicide, drug,
Form: Free verse
Death of the Albatross
...the albatross of hope
has begun his descent
wings of regret
blocking warm sun
fragile dreamsaplings
doubled over in spindly lament
windswept harvest fields
empty, quiet
stagnant ponds of self-loa...
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Categories:
self loathe, angst, loss,
Form: Free verse
La Historia 101
...La Historia-101, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez
Imagine, I cannot
To feel their lost
Longing for the return home
Rejoicing behind closed doors
Criminal act
Propagate servitude with miserable p...
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Categories:
self loathe, angst, history, introspection,
Form: Free verse
In Descrimanent Love
...------
When a Mother gives' Birth
She give's it with Love
She sore's to the High Heaven
To the Christ,
Fore She is giving birth
A gift from above...
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Such a complication device
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Categories:
self loathe, devotion, faith, family, children,
Form: Personification
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