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Identity Self Poems

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


Premium Member Multiplicity of the Self
Man is a jumble of contradictions,
I know, a hard nut to crack!
so unfathomable, so mysterious-
at once a Satan and an angel.

To the outer world I...

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Categories: self, confusion, identity, irony,



Premium Member Not Feeling At All Myself Today
I'm not feeling at all myself today—
I see a sea of selfies. 
adrift in a mirror maze,
floating as reflections that are lost 
in a hall...

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Categories: self,

March Comes In Like A Lion
March Comes In Like A Lion 

Dandelion dance
in the palm of my 
hand; a gentle 
bloom. 

I love 
my birthday 
flower.
...

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Categories: self, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Hiraeth soul
(HI-RITH)
Hiraeth soul…
A soul forever wandering, in search of a place that no longer exists, or maybe never did.

Looking for a home that no longer exists.
Yearning...

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Categories: self, angst, appreciation, deep, identity,

Premium Member Trained Professional
After 63 years of smiling 
You might say I’m a professional 
I don’t know when I smiled for the first time
After all I was a...

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Categories: self, abuse, angst, betrayal, identity,



Premium Member Things Doesn't Always Have To Make Sense
Things don't always have to make sense because no one makes the rules
I can say and do things the way i want because i do...

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Categories: self, identity,

Premium Member optimal object of meditation
the hermits gathered, exchanging notes
each had searched for the truth but had failed
so they conferred, sharing their heart’s emotes 
dismayed that the light within had...

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Categories: self, silence, spiritual,

Premium Member In Your Studio
I’m on your lap
in a photo I no longer have—
a toddler with a borrowed brush,
my hand caught mid-daub
on your canvas.
It was staged, of course—
your painting...

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Categories: self, art, childhood, father, growing

Premium Member Self Esteem
"If you put a really small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." --Anonymous

Hard to be a humble soul
In...

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Categories: self, appreciation, character, confidence, identity,

Is a Mirror Just a Mirror
A mirror isn't just a frame,
A sheet of glass that speaks your name.
It shows your image. Yes, it's true–
But now the whole of what is...

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Categories: self, beauty, spoken word, strength,

Premium Member Send your regards
"By the squeaky old gate that tomorrow will find,"
kindness is a necessary handkerchief:
convex lips to meet mine with gentle understanding
words that tenderize as a snarling...

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Categories: self, appreciation, identity, life, loneliness,

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...

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Categories: hate, identity, self, words,

When I look into my grandmother's eyes
When I look into my grandmother's eyes
I see what she's had to sacrifice 
When I look into my grandmother's eyes 
I see a lifetime of...

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Categories: self, color, discrimination, family, history,

Chameleon
I’ve been a chameleon my whole life—
Blending, shifting, changing with the tide.

I have worn a thousand faces, each not quite my own,
Shifting like shadows, wherever...

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Categories: self, mental health,

Ode to my self
There's a lonely shadow here.
Its on my wall, down a narrow
staircase, and down the hall.
I'm never lonely, I just lose myself.
Down another hallway that leads...

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Categories: self, dark, drug, extended metaphor,


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