Short Self Conscious Poems

express the personal-
                        inhabited in humanity...

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the tomboy
self conscious
in her bathing suit



posted on August 4, 2018...

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Afraid to be me
For fear of rejection
Self conscious & unsure
Unsure of the man I want to be....

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Caring about one's own feelings, it should not be recognized as selfish, it should be accepted as instinct and self-love...

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there once was a woman named Mimi
she never would wear a bikini
	when she was asked why
	she didn’t blink an eye
said, “I’ve eaten too much linguine!”...

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And because she smiles
because she laughs
because she hugs herself
and looks so self-conscious
even as she speaks her mind
and speaks it so well
that I'm floored....

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a shy teenager
coaxed to try on pink lipstick~
breaks into a smile



Submitted on May 31, 2019 for contest  WRITING CHALLENGE 5, MAY 2019 SENRYU sponsored by DEAR HEART  -  RANKED 3RD...

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As she'd left
He'd taken her name for all the reasons and  blames
In every corners of the city, to all the men
As much as
He'd no courage left
To walk on the memory lane
And look into her eyes....

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Need someone real bad, hey, you look real bad
Let's be a pair of naughties, start a new fad
Dance naked in the street
Naked I repeat
But a loin cloth for me, I'm self-conscious must add...

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Would you rather have your bangs cut too short
Or have someone come by and lop off your head?
For me it would be the latter, for I despise short bangs.
They make me self-conscious, and I wish I was dead....

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When birds take a bath in your birdbath
Are they self-conscious about nudity and their overweight flab
They could put on a bathrobe
But no arms for the armholes
They turn on our faucet and create a big splash...

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Can you see
Odd epiphany;
What's to be
Self-conscious story.


Just like me
Strange melancholy;
Chemistry
Beyond sanity.


Odd words free
Mad controversy;
History
In lost odyssey.




Leon Enriquez
04 April 2019
Singapore...

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I dream of intimacy
maybe my self conscious
is trying to tell me
that I need somebody
My heart interferes
because it has everything to fear
I mess up every prospect
because I am scared
But truthfully 
I'm more scared of no one being there...

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I washed my hands with sanitizer
Before I opened up my mind.
Wider! My muse screamed.
WIDER! WIDER! WIDER!
Everyone was staring at me.
Is this wide enough? I asked her.
I was feeling self-conscious now.
Having never been in this restaurant before.
And now knowing I will never be back....

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An Inupiat "slow-grower"
Believed he could sink no lower
When an icicle rose
On the tip of his nose
He won "Number 1 Snow Blower"

 * * * * 

A cold polar bear did stutter
And folk thought he was a nutter
But God loved him a bunch
And dropped off his lunch
With buckets of peanut butter....

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Misty sky,
All a lie,
Terrible past,
Trauma will last,
Forever stressed,
Feeling never blessed,
Praying to God,
I always feel odd,
Left out,
Self-doubt,
Self-conscious and worried,
But the stress is buried,
So, no-one can see,
The inside me,
A mess of anxiety,
Am I good enough for society?...

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a soft, subtle fragrance ineffable 
arises from a centreless fulcrum 
if we be self-conscious, it disappears 
taking along with it the cosmic hum

how still is our stillness, worthy hermit
do thoughts as yet soil our meditation
slow, slower and slower yet we become
in vibrance, mood and mode celebration...

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Can you be conscious
  without being self conscious,
  philosophers disagree

Being aware of your
  awareness,
  seems logical to me

But logic has its
  failings,
  as we pierce the inner mind

Perception,
  the most elusive ghost
   —and hardest to define

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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an apperception of poetic elements imagery,assonance,rhythm,sound symbolism of an intuitive of the self conscious in a crystallised convergence of the moment ,with punctuation implied interpretation changing according to mood, essentially fluid and inherently variable. with unique mutual  participative interaction....

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Most see me as a vibrant green
alive and bursting with ambitions
competitive and willing
my feet a treadmil that never stops moving.

Only some see me as shimmering silver
my accomplishments leave me self-conscious
and unaware
quiet and withdrawn
my mind reels ahead of others as my body
stays in the shadows....

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PENUMBRA

A semi-hidden place
Out of the limelight
Hovering in shadow
And almost unseen
But still a dim copy
Sometimes cast large
And sometimes not
Its own shade of grey
Moving in synchrony
An indistinct identity
As if self-conscious
Yet knowing its role
To echo and follow
Like its black cousin 
Faithful until it’s dark...

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self conscious
            uncertain
striving 
      for reality

inclining
    towards  validity

rhmythmic ornamental  transcendental

beyond
      the
            beyond
to
perception
of
           virtual
                    infinity
a
brooding
vastness

expressive echos
in
an
      inner
              process...

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I'm healthy
I symbolize 
self conscious 
insecurities
I victimize 
those who choose
burgers and fries
I offend those 
who choose 
thicker thighs
But I most closely
represent evil
hiding away
you eat more of me
so you can blend in
to this pressure filled 
society that we live in
but tell me are you
anymore thin
than when you last
weighed in?...

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RECOGNITIONS

simple
 memoranda
of
an
appreciation
of
 the
 acknowledged
single mindedness
so
evident
in
self conscious
 realizations
& detailed
exressions
of
 understanding

eyecatching
motifs
disintegrate
elegant

vulnerable
&
numerous
sensitive
substitutes

the
influential
comment
to
illuminate
a
reposte

yet
so
inadequate...

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Steam clouds on mirror
Hide the reflection in blurred
Chose to be unknown

Hidden soul not speak
It says through the words of eyes
I'm living in you

Unnamed solely side
Lived from the remained shadow
Under self conscious

Friend or predator
Both are potentially hurts
Pick the wise answer

Make peace with yourself 
Take two sides in good or bad
Those, the shapes of you...

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