Short Self Poems

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


Fine Your Self

or you blackor white
or just light
or you very bright
or do you light up the night
or you someone els
FINE YOUR SELF


Premium Member My Pseudonym

My name, William A Cleator, sounds like a stuffed shirt to me,
but Billy TheKidster sounds like a lot more fun possibly.
Form: Couplet

Andalusia

Forever romancing
that lingering question… 

Quixotic by decree 
—windmills turning free

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

A New Me

A New Me
The rooms are the light now
With the outside reminding me what the breeze was.             A new me is reborn.

Premium Member Self-Determination

Never allow others to make life less than what you want yours to be!
Written October 5, 2022
Form: Monoku


Forgiveness

Oh, Great Father of all
I come before you in awe
My heart tainted between your laws 
Let me repent and do you no wrong

Premium Member Being Who You ain't

If being who you are today
is making you feel faint.
What makes you think you'll be fulfilled,
by being who you ain't.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Zen mode

we notice ego discontent
with the way things are
it has nothing to do with us of course
Self shines like a bright star
Form: Rhyme

Ugly

I'm useless
I'm a disgrace
I'm pathetic
I'm a joke
I'm a failure
I'm dirty
I'm awful

And it's all because of YOU.
Form: Bio

Tunnel of Self Love

When a narcissists riding of
The tunnel of love is planned
He’ll want to sit alone in a car
So he can hold his own hand
Form:

Premium Member Life's Train

Seen through child like eyes

I looked up discovering

New

Train that life showed.

*

Inspired by: Mystic Rose
Form: Haiku

The Walking Dead

Rushing to nowhere
The dead are lowest on time
For eternity
Self-condemned to walk empty
Though life works differently
Form: Tanka

Premium Member I Am Not Anti-Social

We who do not socialize aren't necessarily anti-social.
We just have zero tolerance for drama, stupidity and fake people.
Form: Rhyme

Cogito Ergo Sum

I Think Therefore I Am
     do I think
     or am I just a parrot
     barking back ideas
     someone spoke in my ear

Healing

You are right, you aren't an addiction. 
I have now realized pretty baby, you are the medicine I needed to heal myself.

Premium Member The Secret To My Success

The secret to my success, if you all really must know,
is that I treat my boss as if his ass is always under the mistletoe.
Form: Rhyme

Self Crusade

the holy
grail has
been
found

yet
sated
by blood
i'm not

instead a brown
paper bagged
bottle of red
dry wine
Form:

Premium Member Myself Is Not Myself-My Soul My True Self-

Clay
Dirt
Mud
Bone-morrow
Water
~my true self my soul


8/20/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Premium Member Self Just Gets In the Way-

Every day is OKAY when I just git myself out of the way!!!


11/4/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Self-Actualization Exercise 43

When gone goes 
Positive reinforcement
All around you,
You must provide your own.
You are the prayer.
You are the God.
age

Premium Member Self-Kindness

I've found a method to cultivate self-kindness After all the grief
Written: March 19, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Powerfully Enjoying Self

ecstastically me
an exhilarated sense 
indulgent and exultant
powerfully me
a confident zealousness
appreciating myself
Form: Choka

Would You

You wouldn't sacrifice love for your own selfishness,
would you?
You wouldn't let down your biggest fan,
would you?

MC

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 Zen mode

head having melded with heart
ego identity vaporised
all souls one, none from us apart
light of our true Self is realised
Form: Rhyme

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