Short Ourselves Poems

Short Ourselves Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Ourselves by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Ourselves by length and keyword.


Thought For the Day

IT would be so much ‘EASIER !
‘ too have the right path shown to Us ,
But far more ‘BENEFICIAL 
‘too find it by ourselves
Form: Verse


Premium Member Speak For Yourself

Speak For Yourself

We wish
We could watch
Ourselves
Happen.

Do you 
Think
We can?

-Gray Squirrel

10/22/2023

Premium Member There's No Escape

~ Written with a certain poetess in mind. ~

we can't run away from ourselves ~ there's no place our hearts can escape 
us
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Mother

we share the stars,
paths unknown to one another.
they call out to us and we remember -
we meet ourselves
walking together.
mom

Premium Member Thought of the day

sensing the onset of dread
borne by thoughts we ourselves bred
we let draw near our worst fear
and then watched it disappear
Form: Jueju


Last Choosing

That one final
  bullet
That one final
dagger
To use
on another
Or to use
— on ourselves

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Mass Appeal

We all play a part,
Actors on the global stage,
Pleasing the masses,
Who demand that we forget,
Ourselves and become themselves.
Form: Tanka

After Death

we're all gonna find ourselves after death
we're all gonna come from A to Z
we're all gonna go away
we're all gonna have to pay
© Ewa Mat  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Pictures

“The pictures we paint today of 
ourselves is water paint on canvas 
in the rain.”  
                                Ken Jordan
© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Prose

Self-Tough Love

Be careful with giving yourself too much grace and kindness. Sometimes we benefit from giving ourselves tough love too. - Strength

Alone We Judge Defend and Blame

Alone,
    we are
    judges and defendants,
    alone
    we blame ourselves
    and we hold
    to concepts
    so vain...
Form: Epigram

Decisions

Decisions make us what we are,
   Be sure to make them wise...

For we cannot deceive ourselves,
   Through promises or lies...

Premium Member Life Changes

we are so caught up in ourselves
so indulged with the luxuries we have
that we fail to see
what we are missing
as times change

Premium Member Knowing Oneself

Once ourselves we come to know nothing unknown on truth's path would stand!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
         16 May 2018
Form: Monoku

Her

She is the one , 
I want to live with forever,
and be with all the time.
With no one to be around.
But ourselves for the eternity.

Premium Member Sprinkles and glitter

When snow comes it will be magical and grand
to find ourselves in the midst of a winter wonderland



AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Couplet

Premium Member America the Bootyful

Sound bytes, brain blights
Ignorance is our calling
Stupid reigns supreme
Let us not Think for ourselves
We are the cattle we raise.
Form: Tanka

Vii Roman Epic

WHEN WATERS
FILL HOLES
AND MAKE WATERY MESSES
THE SOILS BENEATH OUR FEET
CAUSES US TO
STAND BENEATH THE SKY
AND FIND OURSELVES WET
Form: Bio

It Is Thus

IT IS THUS

With most of us

We are what other people say we are
We know ourselves
That we know what we knows

Chiefly by hearsay
Form:

Premium Member How Wonderful Our Lives Can Be

How Wonderful Our Lives Can Be
By Franklin Price
1/9/2015

 How wonderful our lives can be
When we don't take ourselves so seriously
Form: Couplet

Ztime Keeper

If I should keep time by the cosmic rushes that my love for you creates we would find ourselves forever awash in the tide of the big bang.
Form: Monoku

Guardians of Tomorrow

All history must we study,
but not enslave ourselves

As we forge on in tribute
—intrepid to foretell 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Reminding Ourselves

Much better people we would be if we daily reminded ourselves of our mortality!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     18 January 2017
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Happy Father's Day

God is the author
children pattern of ourselves
earthen foundation


6/16/2019


Happy Father's Day to our Lord and all the fathers
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Meta-Poetry

Any topic, any form
Bad, better, beautiful
Can we see the mirror?
Dare we look at ourselves?
Everyone here has reason; exist or coexist
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

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