Short Self Imposed Poems

Take a
Chance to start 
A brand new life 
Without the self imposed
Limits












Nayda Ivette
12-12-2015...

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Disillusioned with the external 
Owing to self-imposed limitation
We embrace spirit vibrational
Equal now, in each sensation

27-May-2021...

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Green climbing ivy
Reaches for new heights above
Watchful eyes of youth

Seedlings learn from them
There’s no such thing as limits
Except self imposed...

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Saint Patrick slept in stupor self-imposed
in the back of the pub with the door closed
	they sang out for him
	to silence the din
but he snuggly snored on indisposed...

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at ease within the thickets of thought
essence of being flows like the breeze
there is no bondage save self imposed
each impulse we embrace and release 

28-May-2023...

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Fountain serves as the
Witness of declaration
Of a pure true love 
Transcending the barriers
Self imposed for precaution













Nayda Ivette
1-20-2016...

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INTRODUCTION


My caricature is outlined
In the jar of vocabulary

On the edge of expression 
I tear into existence

Plying limits 
Self imposed

Exposing me
Composing me...

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Without you 
I would be an iceberg
Frosty & cold 
A steel foundation 
A mighty fortress 
A vault at the bank
A self imposed prison
An armored heart 
A concrete soul
With no admittance allowed...

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No rules followed
Nor lies swallowed
Freedom exists only
In the mind
Not to be held
By chains that bind
The flesh. Self imposed
Take off your clothes
Shake free of body
Let your spirit dance....

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Saint “WHO”

In the midst of a self imposed drought
which he couldn’t stop bragging about
came the day of the green
oh, a sight quite obscene
his resolve, with his snout, in a stout.


John G. Lawless
©3/13/2018...

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Courts can free
or incarcerate the body--
we are subjects of laws,
both legislated
and those self imposed:

"Faith" is a double-edged sword--
it may work fine in heaven 
but fails miserably when it comes
to politicians....

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Queen Erselott ruled the living room
Wearing her gold crown and lilac perfume
Her sister Queen Mae, self-imposed ruler too
Was jealous of Ebony, told that cat to shoo.
But Erselott crowned Ebony Queen of the loo
Let her clean out their litter, the least she could do....

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Bliss tingle, teasing, caressing
Scriptures, best set aside
Rapture continuum pleasing
Since God resides inside

Barriers self-imposed
Let all fears be disposed
That soul grows unopposed

Love jingle
Bliss tingle

16-March-2022
Quietus ...

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my life the canvas of my dreams
bound only by limits self imposed
i offer this mosaic to the world
hoping to reach the souls of some
and give a smile to many



Submitted on December 19, 2018 for contest YOU ARE NOT DEFINED BY POETRY sponsored by JOHN HAMILTON  -  RANKED 5TH...

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folded into her 
own crinkled
wrinkled

newsprint self, 
delight and enthusiasm rapidly 
dissipate

Torn pieces of herself
languish
in her own self-imposed 
purgatory

joyless, she sees nothing
of her former light.

In greyscale, her 
essence

waits in anguish for
the return of self....

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Ferality 
Brutality
Remorse

Gratification 
The gains
Illusionary 

Repression 
Sublimation 
Ego games

Specious logic
Self hypnosis 
Delusion

Web of thoughts
Gluey desire
Myriad fears 

Habit patterns 
A limitation 
Self-imposed

Fear of freedom 
Thus keeps us
Bound

20-May-2021...

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I’m sick.
I’ve been sick.
Sick for days,
For months,
For years.

I’m tired, 
And lethargic.
My eyes are weary.
I have a permanently hunched back, now.

The aching,
The spasming.
The fevers,
The shivers.
It’s a never-ending cycle.

And it’s all self-imposed.
Because,
I perform best
When I’m stressed....

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If we can’t agree on fifty-one percent
of what affects us both
we’re doomed
Like the baby and the bathwater
our future lost
in critical disdain

All politics of division
a self-imposed, self-righteous
Armageddon
The brotherhood of humanity
sacrificed
—on its dying altar of shame

(Tribute To Anthony Hopkins:  July, 2022)...

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Listen to poem:

How trivial it seems
the self-imposed stress
of lofty standards
crossing t’s and dotting i’s
in hindsight meaningless

The constant judging
feeling responsible for
the world to be just right
and things just so

Trying now to ask for help
or just be satisfied with less



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on April 30, 2020...

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Staring at a freckle
Misunderstanding her power
Deleting my feeble attempt at happiness
I sigh at my self-imposed, self-indulgent lunacy

who cares?
No one
A beauty mark in some circles
not considered a blemish at all.
Crazy feelings entertained freely by me 
which mean nothing

I pointedly ignore the freckle
the rest of my life......

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The Cell

These bars confine and constrain
A cage of my own design
Built of illusions, wishes
A picture of a life dreamed

Chapters read, misread
My compass deflected
The map outdated, no one spoke
Signposts faded and fallen

Life larger than this cell
Expanding, awareness awakening
Testing these feeble boundaries
Self imposed, self removed

Stoic...

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SELF IMPRISONMENT
by 
JOHN M. ARRIBAS





There Is One Thing of Which I’m Sure
A Self Imposed Guilt Has No Cure
One Can Not Carry the Burdens of Fate
On the Shoulders of a Surviving Mate
We All Could Have Been a Better Person
Self Imposed Guilt, an Unmerited Burden
Loss of Peace, Waste of Precious Time
To Feel Guilty, When There is No Crime...

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happiness of cardinals 
draws me out
of my self-imposed
hypnotic dance state

come, I say
to my soul mate,
I will save you

He grabs my heel.
because I am a lifeline,
and he knows it.

believing we can fly,
I pull him out of
his self-imposed 
childhood prison.

Forever changed,
a piece of the sky now
transforms into the
oneness of ourselves...

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Inhale


my heartbeat slows,
blood sluggish
through stenotic vessels
unwilling to expand,
to breathe
to let blood flow

untenable, this suffocation
this dampening
it speaks of tired eyes,
of stolid limbs,
of stultified need

torpid blood,
when will you give up
your self-imposed stricture,
your closely guarded fear,
your wariness

and inhale...

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self imposed prison captivates a song bird
stumbling over insecure formation of the wrong word
stabalizing foundation atop false ground
deception dressed to impress in a tall gown
quietly with humming embedding a soft sound
fooling with the friendly touch of a small town
is the big city snake born and bred in the pits
released from it's cage around seven or six...

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