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#selfportrait
I'm a gray hedgehog with spikes inside. So different from the world outside. I'm a victim of serious, sad mornings. You’ve called me perfectly “anonymous”. My fingers reach, still warm from sleep, for things the morning shadows keep an open book, my glasses, water — searching for things that float and totter. The mirror waits — its silver gleam reflects the ghost of who I seem. My hair uncombed, my eyes turned blue — insomnia has touched them too. A thought then flashes through my mind: this isn’t just a morning kind. I walk toward the window’s breath, where air smells with life and death. It’s thick with rain, with earth and stone, a scent of distance — damp, alone. From rooftops, raindrops start to fall, and whisper tales along the wall. The northern wind lifts darkened leaves, but none take flight — the motion grieves. Too wet to soar, they drag instead, their whispers soft, like words unsaid. The light cuts through — a silver thread, where motes of dust dance, pale and dead. And in the mirror’s quiet view, I see the morning — and me, too. I'm a gray hedgehog with spikes inside. So different from the world outside. I'm a victim of serious, sad mornings. You’ve called me perfectly “anonymous”. 19.10.2025
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Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM UTC
Self-Portrait
I guess now, the night we met is just a memory— a self-portrait without ****** features, Only streaks where tears once ran, as the image is so blurry, but I still see myself Running back to you… _too easily_. It’s such a sad picture— an enigma, half-painted with eager thoughts quietly bleeding Into the ink of doubt, each brushstroke pulling me further from the truth I never wanted to name Now it just hangs… _so awkwardly crooked_ You left me walking alone in this gallery _of only terrible memories._
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Jul 16, 2025
Jul 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM UTC
Terrible Memories on Display
Born a girl and bred a monster Bringer of despair Bringer of demise Bite the twisted hand that feeds Glaring straight into the beast's eyes Flailing fists, handfuls of coarse hair A good-for-nothing, two-timing taker
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Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024 at 1:34 AM UTC
Opportunist
I often wonder what would the world look like without me the ego of man, brazen and bold what keeps you awake, when others lay unconsciously physically opaque tragically present ringing echoes of words layed with ink never having seen the light of the splendid sun we plot and plot and plot for naught we are but a child, collectively a singular child one hell-bent on destruction not seeing beyond the splinter of light allowed through a cracked door and the world looks on with equal parts amusement and concern our significance is insignificant both tangible and fraught with the tragedy of being of the lack of being of managing what cocktail of emotions we are to be ****** into when loss knocks on the door
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Mar 13, 2022
Mar 13, 2022 at 5:50 AM UTC
The Ego of Man
Drawn by the sadness of time Minutes of repeated striations Hours of wounded sketching Days draining color Outstare me...I dare you Survey my damage Morphing into A dueling masterpiece
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Feb 23, 2022
Feb 23, 2022 at 2:41 PM UTC
autoportrait
Stretched wide across mountains and valleys, clusters of hills and springs of rivers, a soft brown veil dusted with gold. Take a long nail, pry it aside, come, see what’s within for a modest fine. My flesh, a soft pink for a childhood much missed, my blood, a loud red for all the shocks I’m full of, my bone, I’m not too sure for none have travelled far but if you pressed me hard enough, you’d feel it - scrolls of poems written and yet to be, my tongue a ribbon binding them all, my teeth an ivory chest to contain them, and sweet lips carefully locking them for now. A treasure trove awaits those of my blood and water, presented on a silver platter under a soft brown veil dusted with gold stretched wide across mountains and valleys, clusters of hills and springs of rivers.
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Apr 4, 2021
Apr 4, 2021 at 5:27 AM UTC
Casket
I look at myself in the mirror, A young artist, so lost - couldn’t see clearer. Where to go and where to drip the paint? I might as well lose consciousness and faint. Confused, confined, cannot define the meaning of my life. I don’t belong to any tribe, Combining stories of my past, I am so lost, alas. The right, the wrong, its all collapsed, The life will always just elapse. Complex and very simple at the same time, Oh look, another rhyme.
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Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 at 10:44 PM UTC
Lost
The vision : (dreams torn, torn) A picture came to me in the darkness of night, Of myself in ten, twenty years time; Worn out with the struggle, weak, and no longer able to fight, Finally giving way to the forces ranged against me, Sad and grey and defeated. The sketch : (in harsh charcoals) This dream that came to me, Was as though I had finally and sadly, late in the day, Lost my innocence. The Canvas : (Life, existence) I had been high-minded and apologetic, Full of enthusiasms I didn’t quite mean, And guilt’s I didn’t understand. And now I stand looking at the man I could’ve been. In Oils : (violent colours) I had spent years thrashing around in confusion As drowning men pull each other under, As wave after wave we are swept away; Our cries obscured by the thunder. My signature : (...) See my writing on the wall, There’s no one to catch me when I fall; But Death was on my side: Suicide.
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Sep 13, 2020
Sep 13, 2020 at 9:57 PM UTC
Self Portrait
(rondeau redoublé) This lived-in face has seen the years go by at such a wild and unforgiving pace. My powers are weak, though my aims may be high, and troubles are all bound to leave their trace. And while I always feel the need to brace myself against life's storms, I know that I can never win. Death always plays his ace. This lived-in face has seen the years go by. It's little help to know the rules apply to every member of the human race. Dark clouds are growing in my evening sky at such a wild and unforgiving pace. In this vast universe I have my place, but can my thoughts outlast me when I die? or speak to those in other time or space? My powers are weak, though my aims may be high, Yet while dark thoughts of gloom may multiply, to let them win would be a sad disgrace, though many things may make me want to cry, and troubles are all bound to leave their trace. Yes, my mortality I must embrace, not waste my time in always asking why, or fearing not to do things "just in case." I'll dry those tears. There's no point to deny this lived-in face.
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Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 10:13 AM UTC
Self-Portrait *
if you draw yourself, looking in the mirror then that’s a self-portrait. if you’re looking in the mirror to draw yourself, you’d probably start you think of who you really are I reflect on what happened and who I was in the past few years. and I made this poem.
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Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 9:40 AM UTC
self-portrait
She was a force. So resilient, that even the strongest powers of nature, were terrified to cross her. She wore her hair in messy ringlets, laughed unapologetically, rocked red lipstick, and didn’t sweat the small stuff. Nothing the universe threw at her could knock her down. Except there were still parts of her, that she hoped no one could see. Fragments of a woman just trying to make it through. She loved from a distance, spoke clearly with caution, only allowing herself to be vulnerable when she was alone. No one could see that she too, was human. She was a paradox. Each piece of her contradicting the other, and she made sure to never let anyone in long enough, to understand what lived below her surface.
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Jun 1, 2020
Jun 1, 2020 at 9:49 PM UTC
looking in a mirror
skins translucent, hearts on your sleeve, doesn’t matter how hard ya try to hide it, no ones that naïve. w.c.
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Mar 1, 2020
Mar 1, 2020 at 8:12 PM UTC
self portrait (of word).
This is me, But the truth is- There's much more beneath the surface I'm not talking 'bout the bones Or the flesh beneath my skin, If you look into my mind, You'll see a portrait from within. My eyes are two glass windows Smeared with colour stains, There's an endless rush of brightness Always pulsing through my veins I feel hope among the stars- Cosmic blossoms of the dark, I don't always find my way On the journeys I embark I am at a crossroads Now knowing where to go, But I've ways stood up straight, Despite carrying cargo. My face is not my only worth, See the truth: This is me.
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Nov 22, 2018
Nov 22, 2018 at 6:39 PM UTC
Self-portrait
A lady stares blankly ahead: Ignoring everything in her stead, Inhaling the adulterated room air, Taciturn, stiff, certain, or maybe scared. Still as a rock – Calm as a lake – Strong as a dock – But those are all fake. Inside her, a war is waging. Beasts, monsters, and heroes – all fighting. For the longest time, Her mind has been running wild. Her clock is ticking Yet no one is winning. Not one bloc is determined to fall Because all she does is feed them all. /pc
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 9:37 AM UTC
beasts. monsters. heroes.
i. melted ice cream afternoons bogged down rising from asphalt in magical mist that transforms the day into a test of endurance even dusk offers no solace in frozen watermelon bliss ii. smoke permeates fabric hair and every surface with peace and grit wafting over the crispy edges of predawn begging sleep to the most stubborn insomniac rotisserie style dreams till morning iii. there's less death today waiting in line in candy store nightmares begging silence from the jubilant but the sky turned up a dream state in that beguiling beauty is brilliance iv. in shadows the earth falls silent rustling through tall tales the moon births images in hidden corners evening strolls turn adventures and every day burns quick to be reborn slowly v. the weight of hell in short tempered bites **** will with a proficiency unseen outside a viper's silent hunt ready for war with fists losing responsibility breaking triple digit pressure vi. Incessant banging through walls built faster than I am strong enough to demolish, cradling lace so it won't rip on my forked tongue. There is only so much care left to handle perception just trying to breathe through a smile.
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 7:50 PM UTC
365 dual encrusted reflections
I am emulsified. Painted onto shingles of glittering rooftops Where the weather abrades me. Fated observer from a distance Ogling people and their things People and their things Feeling feelings inside me and all around me People and their things Passing past. But I am empty windows full of images and antique furniture. Never looking and always seeing.
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Oct 12, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 at 1:59 PM UTC
Antique Furniture
I AM THAT HOUSE in your recurring dreams I AM THAT HOUSE the one you are always running from yet never entered I AM THAT HOUSE full of old-things well-loved crooked and cursed by the neighbors I AM THAT HOUSE the white one rubbed grey paint peeled away sighing at the crossroads I AM THAT HOUSE my creaks and groans so familiar you know exactly where to step to go unnoticed At the crossroads I AM THAT HOUSE Paint peeled to grey Never entered I AM THAT HOUSE Always running away Unnoticed I AM THAT HOUSE Of familiar steps Crooked and cursed I AM THAT HOUSE Well loved by the neighbors Ablaze I AM THAT HOUSE In recurring dreams I am that house. You're back here again. The door is open. Won't you come in?
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Oct 12, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 at 1:56 PM UTC
I AM THAT HOUSE
I am two:thirty heat lightning. Inconquerable flashes of my elemental fury leap from grumbling cloud to dewy earth, dancing naked under a smoky moon. I am a burning offering to the sodium lamp sentinels looming golden over black tar; there is tobacco sown into my every pore.  I am the underestimated weight of fog rolling off the meadow's swollen calf river, the heavy lowing of labor pains, the thick croak of the year's last bullfrog. I am the first crunch of dying light, the gray tinge of wood smoke on chlorophyll burned red. The sting of my icy breath creeps into sleeping eyelids, through every crack in waterlogged armor.  My frosty four o'clock is no place for strangers.  The frozen silence does not know my strength.  I will bend the world with feet of glass.  In time, the weight will break my own limbs, expose their green, soft meat. I am the green shoots of daffodils sharp, triumphantly cleaving the rested dirt.  There is yellow warpaint across my forehead, a crown of blistering elegance glazed by wings of stubborn three:thirty ice. I am resilient and eternal—perennial—blooming to a cold, white moon.
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May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 12:13 PM UTC
Priestess of the Night Shift
blurring a line defining an edge I have to find a way to make my colors blend I'm only happy when I'm me and my canvas is black with complexity I draw the lines straight and clean but sometimes that isn't what is seen blurring a line defining an edge I am alive through my pen I work on my portrait endlessly my cells are words my blood a river of poetry an unfinished work an oeuvre of me
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 9:36 AM UTC
an oeuvre of me
I promise myself you'll break if I keep pushing hard enough. You are an angel of liberation How could you ever love **** so hateful? It must be a lie, it must be fake But I can make it true if I break you Heavenly creature, let this creature come to you Smother you and shovel all his wretched love in you The way a golden goddess glows, mortals always follow And only through destruction could she love a fiend so hollow At your weakest, I strike A predator in love I convince myself you'll feel the same If I damage you enough I will teach you to love me So that you can teach me why What a Demon's meaning is In an Angel's Eyes
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 6:32 PM UTC
Stockholm Syndrome