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Hate Self Poems

These Hate Self poems are examples of Self poems about Hate. These are the best examples of Self Hate poems written by international poets.

Self Made Heartache

My heart no longer beats as it did before 
With each thump there’s a rattle you now hear
You wonder at first then you realize 
The

Categories: self, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,

When My Life Changed

Remembering what she used to be. 
How she could light the world ablaze without a second thought. 
Her words like daggers, always ready for a

Categories: self, august, change, deep, depression,

Ashes To Resilience

I was born in the smoke of silence,  
where names were weapons,  
and love came laced with barbed wire.  

They said I

Categories: self, appreciation, care, confidence, courage,

May I return when nights come

May I return when nights come 
And off the furious outside mind
And lit beams inside of some kinds 
 
They sparkle calmness as seeds

Categories: self, appreciation, courage, extended metaphor,

Caveman Speaking

You ask me why I live in cave
Caveman not want to be a slave
I take a chance and look around
I see that people act like

Categories: self, age, freedom, humanity, humor,

A black girls stance on self love

A black girls stance on self love 
Is one not often understood 
One that take years of healing 
One that understands the process of feeling

Categories: self, discrimination, joy, mirror, prejudice,

godless hymn


I wasn’t born — I was expelled,
From choking smoke and screams I yelled.
No breath of grace, no holy light,
Just claws and fire in endless night.

No

Categories: self, anger, angst, anxiety, dark,

marionette of grief

They birthed me in a house of screams, Where shadows stitched my fevered dreams— No lullaby, no gentle womb, Just rusted chains and cradle's tomb.
A

Categories: self, abuse, anger, angst, conflict,

The invitation of love into a black woman's heart

Deep down she was a hopeless romantic
Masked with hate because she thought she couldn't have it
After all she was a black woman 
When she asked

Categories: self, black love, discrimination, longing,

Her journey to self love

She sat in front of her vanity mirror 
Her reflection felt unfamiliar 
The girl in it didn't look how she pictured 
She felt like a

Categories: self, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, discrimination,

How may we know God

small baby steps, one at a time
take us to our destination
ladder of life let’s slowly climb
at peace in tranquil cessation

we dwell in form by night

Categories: god, self, spiritual,

Her Victory Song

Please don’t hate me
Don’t debate me
And you damn sure
won’t underrate me

Cause I’m here now
Gonna show you how
I can rise above
What you dish out

You call my

Categories: abuse, betrayal, confidence, self,

Ego Death

The extermination of my self-identity
comes easy when taken from the tongue.

Words hanging in the balance,
breathe in the air in which they are strung.

Wrap tightly around

Categories: hate, identity, self, words,

The Prismatic Self

Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet

The

Categories: self, angst, confidence, introspection, writing,

Self fulfilling prophecy

I read book dedications and cry.
Nostalgia burns worse than
the words you used to speak.
I've been the problem child since
—well, ever.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.

Isn't it ironic,
my diamond

Categories: self, mother daughter,