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Your Own Making Poems - Poems about Your Own Making

Premium Member Character Witness
... I wouldn't bother alchemizing language into golden press releases of your own making. It never works long anyway, grapevines get better reception. A dog knows who flinches. Moss grows w......

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Categories: your own making, growth, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow Working
...You learn to embrace your very own darkening When trapped in a prison of your own making. When it is the lights that were always looming, Yet never letting the light in for any healing.......

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Categories: your own making, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Quatrain



Slab city
...Freedom is captivity. To be free, You must lose liberties. You’re heart can be open to the world, But you’re body will be closed to joys— Off the grid. No authority. A paradise of your own mak......

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Categories: your own making, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Your Servitor
... I’m just your servitor, here to serve your every need Where I am wholly here to serve to your every whim Crawling on my hands and knees until they bleed Trapped within these chains wrapped aroun......

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Categories: your own making, beautiful, deep, muse, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Reverse Psychology
...I find myself compelled to write to you about the intricate dance we’ve been engaged in—a slow waltz of emotions that has left me both breathless and bewildered. It seems like reverse psychology has ......

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Categories: your own making, break up, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member a heart for a soul
...a heart for a soul and a soul for a heart i am the living ocean and you will drown i am the sun and i will storm your attention seeking with infantile trolling is a bigger concern than your i......

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Categories: your own making, 12th grade, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear dad
...Dear Father, I’m disappointed in you, you’ve let me down, a shadow cast over my heart. You say you love me, sure you do, but love is more than words, more than the fleeting touch of......

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Categories: your own making, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Free verse
AWAY
...Sitting on a bench Of your own making Feeding pigeons Who are there for taking ...sustenance Walking down a worn path Where others have left a mark Though you hear a voice To come up yonder......

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Categories: your own making, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sun Made Flesh and Fiber
...(detail of "Rainbow Body", original encaustic, 2018) Sun Made Flesh and Fiber In the woods of your own making every tree has a dark side and each, a whole, casts a shadow. Where can......

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Categories: your own making, appreciation, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transparency
...Your transparency is like black paint Shrouded in silence and deceit Hiding in shadows of your own making But I see through your dark retreat You cannot fool me with your lies Nor blind me w......

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Categories: your own making, anger, angst, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Give Yourself a Break
...Give Yourself a Break Come on, it’s time. Give it a rest and stop beating yourself up about things that are over and done with when you know you did the best you could. He’s gone now and you m......

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Categories: your own making, angst, caregiving, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Iron Lead
...you invited to the party telling me to sweetly sing you offered nonchalance offering snide remarks valour was not your end game You rode on your proverbial chariot telling me of your mental pro......

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Categories: your own making, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Love Meets Truth
...I saw you... On your mother's bed A toddler, comforting her In her distress You glimpsed me But not in my fullness ...yet I was with you Every moment you experienced Especially the terror ......

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Categories: your own making, love, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Entangled
...Caught in a net Like a spider sees the fly Caught in a net That entangles you When you lie Caught in a net Of your deceit and destruction Caught in a net Caused by your lies and corruption ......

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Categories: your own making, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
If I'M Wrong
...The one question that lingers daily is if I'm so wrong Then why doesn't this feeling of emptiness leave me alone About knowing I'm right about things of the past And why does this pain in my heart......

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Categories: your own making, absence, abuse, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

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