Poems About Self-Discovery, Growth & Inner Healing
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The River Remembers
Childhood trauma doesn’t vanish. It lurks in the space between inhaling and exhaling.After all, It is what a child perceives. The river breaks the dam, a flood unleashed without warning. Tears fall like rain on cracked heart, each drop a memory, heavy and cold. Sorrow arrives first, cloaked in silence, then pain follows, barefoot and burning. Confusion, dressed as contentment, moves…
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Echoes of the Cosmic Self
If you choose to think, then seek the truth, not like a scholar seeking answers,but like a flame seeking air. For without it, you wander into caverns where light forgets the way, a labyrinth of shadows blend from doubt, where self-sabotage chants like a hymn in the blood, and hopelessness settles like dust on forgotten altars. You grow accustomed to the dark. You stop seeing the…
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Yield
Triggers live not in the world, but in the wallsof our own making—built from echoes,bricked with yesterday’s tears,mortared with fear disguised as memory. They are not real—not truly.Only felt.And what is felt…can be unmade. We are the architects.We hold the trowel.We choose:to let the past seep through the cracks…or to seal them—with breath, with stillness,with…
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The Truth in Fruit
A lush poetic metaphor where fruit reveals the truth, love is unguarded, and grace grows from the inside out.
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Ziya Through the Fire
Ziya’s life is a delicate balance between the ghosts of the past, the emptiness of a future that never comes, and the fragile hope of the present. A poetic meditation on survival, the poem weaves themes of identity, pain, and the unyielding pursuit of light in the darkness
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Of Mirrors and Embers
Vanity is a gilded cage… anger, a fire that licks your bones clean of reason
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Fool’s Errand
“Fool’s Errand” challenges the futility of wishing for change in the unchangeable, advocating for wisdom in clear-eyed acceptance over naive hope.
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Wings and Currents
“A sudden urge, a whisper in the mind’s ear — to seize it at once, flourishing freely, without effort. The freedom of open wings, the eruption of a lightning flash, the tightening chains of compulsive thought.
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The Unearthing
In The Unearthing, a tendril of darkness winds silently through the soul—until light touches it, truth names it, and it crumbles. A haunting yet hopeful poem on healing through revelation.
