[Contest] To Myself, With Love

[Foxy87Love]

Roses are red
Daffodils are yellow
You deserve a great fellow  

[Foxy87Love]

I am full of love
beautiful day for it
A great day for love

A haiku  

[eclaire5]

Rhapsody by Florence Earle Coates
As the mother bird to the waiting nest,
As the regnant moon to the sea,
As joy to the heart that hath first been blest—
So is my love to me.

Sweet as the song of the lark that soars
From the net of the fowler free,
Sweet as the morning that song adores—
So is my love to me!

As the rose that blossoms in matchless grace
Where the canker may not be,
As the well that springs in a desert place—
So is my love to me.  

[eclaire5]

Love After Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.  

[LotusInChains]

2/19
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Poem by Rupi Kaur

acceptance

if i am the longest relationship
of my life
isn’t it time to
nurture intimacy
and love
with the person
i lie in bed with each night  

[eclaire5]

"Myself" by Edgar Guest

I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I have done.
I don’t want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as I come and go
into thinking no one else will ever know
the kind of person I really am,
I don’t want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect
I want to deserve all men’s respect;
but here in the struggle for fame and wealth
I want to be able to like myself.
I don’t want to look at myself and know
I am bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself and so,
whatever happens I want to be
self respecting and conscience free.  

[eclaire5]

"Acceptance" by Rupi Kaur

if i am the longest relationship
of my life
isn’t it time to
nurture intimacy
and love
with the person
i lie in bed with each night  

[LotusInChains]

2/20
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Poem by Nikki Giovanni

MY MUSE

I am my own
Muse

I delight me
With my words
Of both Wisdom
And wit

I teach myself
So much
Such insight
Into the human
soul
Such compassion
For the weak and weary
Such utter contempt
For the self-satisfied

I think
What a wonderful world
It would be
If only people
Would listen
To me

I look at the full moon
And bay
Come
Come
Come to me
Let’s explore
A new world  

[LotusInChains]

2/20
2 of 2

Hold On
Lyrics by Wilson Phillips

Some day somebody's gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye
Until then, baby, are you going to let 'em hold you down and make you cry?
Don't you know?
Don't you know, things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold... on for one more day
Can you hold... on for one more day?
Things'll go your way (oh, things'll go your way)
Hold on for one more day

I know that there is pain, but you
Hold on for one more day, and ya
Break free from the chains...
Yeah I know that there is pain, but you
Hold for one more day, and ya
Break free, break from the chains  

[LotusInChains]

2/21
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Poem By Hollie Holden

Today I Asked My Body What She Needed

Today I asked my body what she needed,
Which is a big deal
Considering my journey of
Not Really Asking That Much.

I thought she might need more water.
Or protein.
Or greens.
Or yoga.
Or supplements.
Or movement.

But as I stood in the shower
Reflecting on her stretch marks
Her roundness where I would like flatness,
Her softness where I would like firmness,
All those conditioned wishes
That form a bundle of
Never-Quite-Right-Ness,
She whispered very gently:

Could you just love me like this?  

[LotusInChains]

2/21
2 of 2

Alive
Lyrics by Pearl Jam

Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...

I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah  

[eclaire5]

"Supermodel" by Enijah Jacquee

I'm not looking for validation or acceptance,

I want to be desired with celebration of my presence.

where I'm loved beyond perception and vanity,

all the while my beauty is still cherished

as much as I see it in myself.  

[eclaire5]

"Golden Child" by Alicia Keys

You don't have to be afraid cause time is on your side

and they don't know the power you possess

or the beauty that's inside  

[eclaire5]

"A Poem About Me" By Ms.Moem

I'm about as certain as I can be
That all of us, to some degree,
Have things that even we don't see;
I wonder what I'm yet to learn about me?
I know I'm not the person I will be tomorrow
Nor the me from the past,
Shaped by the days that followed,
I'm here in this moment, that'sall I can be
And that's all I can say about me.