Self Possession Poems


Premium MemberJade Stone's :::Confidence:::

...She laughs, she cries, then she sighs
brimming with confidence,
the pain within she denies
Her heart thumps then skips a beat,
as she reads poetry, a taste of bittersweet
In quiets empty...
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Categories: self possession, confidence, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberLife, in its cruelest joke, gives us only enough time to discover ourselves

...Life, in its cruelest joke, gives us only enough time to discover ourselves,
we toil through the years of uncertainty, forging identities like soul blacksmiths,
sharpening our talents, enduring bet...
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Categories: self possession, fantasy,
Form: Free verse


HOPE BEATS GIVING UP

...I was once told that "THERE IS HOPE BEYOND EVERY STRUGGLE"
Sometimes, I doubt those words & I wonder
I've been struggling all these years
But I couldn't find hope anywhere here
Every time I appro...
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Categories: self possession, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

A Poets Poem

...Poetry for some is no big deal.
It really helps with how I feel.
With every line, my thoughts take flight.
Transforming darkness into light.

Just getting words from pen to paper.
Can sometimes...
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Categories: self possession, creation, inspiration, inspirational, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Fear of the Unknown

...The fear of the unknown has 
emerged every single sensitive gut feeling of hunger...
a hunger so excruciating that my mind calls out for all my immeasurable emotions and painstakingly feelings to a...
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Categories: self possession, growth,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFrom 'Ancient Greece'

...Love of truth
the very light of Greece
A peninsula thrust out
like a bony hand,
‘God-tormented Greece,’
Zeus exclaimed, 
“I shall give man ‘an evil,’ as the price of fire:
They will clasp destruction...
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Categories: self possession, change, mythology, society,
Form: Free verse

Before the Arrival of the Fall

...Between the muted walls
Of the small space I call my own,
I displace all my belongings,
Before the arrival of the Fall,
And change the picture of my home
To resemble the colored world...

Like an art...
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Categories: self possession, nature,
Form: Verse

Letting Go

...My mind is quiet as I walk upon this path
And I am at ease within the mist that flows around me embracing me in its cool grasp.
Gladly I smile as my soul roams freely beyond the thoughts of yesteryea...
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Categories: self possession, growing up, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Progression of a Night Out

...Sobriety
Lucid self-possession.
Clear-headed, composed, steadied
Abstention, temperance; Carouser, lush
Staggering, tottering, gibbering.
Intoxicated high.
Drunkenness...
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Categories: self possession, social,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberThree Magic Rocks To Another World

...I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind
The future opens as i become a space rover

Rolling these rocks, from a long ago ...
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Categories: self possession, fantasy, natureheart, light, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Natural Temptation

...While Lusts fever sweats out self-possession,
Haunted Passion multiplies per heartbeat              
Turning cold blood hot with obsession.

Though the past has left an impression,
New Hunger hu...
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Categories: self possession, art, introspection, lost love,
Form: Villanelle

Pointblank

...neuro syntax threads milled to ground thought flour
For half-baked mixed feelings in recipes and menus for
Successfully successive integrations of intuitive tics
And flicks of words to roll togeth...
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Categories: self possession, confusion, introspection, on writing
Form: I do not know?
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