Rite of Passage & Identity Poems

Rites of Passage
	Rite of Passage & Identity Poems In learning to live, and learning who we are, you may be able to relate to others' struggles with finding themselves, growing up, and learning life's important lessons. That's what these poems are about.


God I Think I'm Falling This was written for a very special someone...I think the titles self explanatory	She Stands Alone She's not sure what to live for...
In Life Everyday This is a poem I wrote when I was really down, and it made me feel like something I wanted to do…	Me Today Life...
Guess Who About life problems...	What is faith and belief?..... .Although, we say that a man with faith...
"Friendship Gone Bad" I wrote this one about an old friend who left me and some other people behind but she doesn’t see it but I hope see will…	Life Something I wrote when I was thinking about a friend and her boyfriends family tragedy...
Nina Linda (Pretty Girl) Nina Linda that is inside...	For My Fallen Angel Again, not written by me. It's a song by My Dying Bride. Really relaxing song, beautiful. Read and comment.
Within i just started writing one night...I was sad...	Shadows This is kind of a saver I made up...I used to cut but I don’t anymore...to feel the pain I once felt...please read =)
Very Emo Read and comment....the best poem I have written in my whole entire life.	Once In A While Yep....read.
The Rope In The Closet Please read and comment!!!	Why This is for some people at my school that bully me…
Help Me Please help me...	No One This describes me now…
Phillip This is about the guy that ruined my life…	Death Thinking about it every night....
What I’m Trying To Be It’s so true it hurts…	Whispering In The Dark Short but heartbreaking...
Cries Of Sorrow read it....My eyes are swollen...	Shy Girl This is me....read it and weep.
Andrew This poem is for my childhood sweetheart. I will never forget him…	Deep Black This is how I feel all the time...
Lies And Hate Just read...... its real good.	Christian This is the guy that I have been waiting for. That empty feeling goes away when I’m with him.
Run Away This is how I truly feel...	Blank This is probably one of my best poems. You should read and comment it…
Rescuing A Dead Soul This describes a guy that is trying to save me from myself. But I think all the worrying he does is making him sick.	Worrying About Him This is a poem about my friend that is going through some hard times and the night he didn’t call....
Heartbreak Follows This describes the feelings I had after I was dumped by the love of my life…	When I Say I’m Happy I like this guy and he found out I was emo, and so he is trying to change my perspective on things. I kind of like him more than a friend so I am trying to change. This describes how I feel about...
Hello I wrote this.....	A Dying Spirit No feelings , no emotions, no desires, no passion in life.
My Last Ride In memory of Floyd "MONSTR" Patterson who took his last ride on October 18, 2007	Where Has My Sunshine Gone? Talks about an angel missing her friend....
Lost Different people...	Death And It's Puzzling Questions This particularly catches the interest of people who like to discuss very deep topics. The kind that dig you deeper and deeper, until you're wrapped in a tornado of questions. Enjoy & comment!
Philosophy Just a thought I had...	Don't Let Go Of Your Dreams! This is a short rant, I know it's not a poem like it's supposed to be, but I wanted to post it.
Life That 12 year old again...	Reflect Reflect on life
Was It Wrong To Love You This was written for someone whom I fell deeply in love with…	The World Of Man And Sports River fishing, wherever the big fish bite, pumping iron, rodeo rider, golf…besides love men need fishing, boxers, past & present, football, baseball…
Lost In My Reflection Losing what I never found...	Look Into My Eyes And Tell Me How crushing, yet romantic. Agree?
A Deep-Seated Animosity I live for ferocity.	Birthday How the years do fly....
Heal God help me!	Darkness As I wonder through this darkness...
Who Are You? Who are you to point fingers at me =D	Be Happy You're Here Love life... it's all you've got! Please comment…
Insane Asylum I wrote this poem when I was put in a insane asylum for a week against my will. Doesn't seem like that bad but it was hard for me to get through and was a crazy experience.	Shining Please Comment this...xx…something if wrote when my life turned around...xxx
Trying to leave you behind I just thought of the name so its kind of gay... and this one is really short too so I’m open to suggestions and stuff... so tell me what you think.! plz.!	My Last Flame It’s really short... I know it needs work and I’m open to suggestions so tell me what you think and if there is anything I can do to make it better! plz.!
God's Little Girl I love this poem hope you all do to…	Just Let Me Live - Over The Drama This poem is for everyone that likes to just get in everyone’s business and for all the people who hate it…
Your Lover This is a poem about my brother. I don't want to tell you what it means, but I would like for you to tell me with your own interpretation.	Go Away I want to go away...
Reflections In My Mind The dearest thing in life you have are your family and friends.	Blinded I really don't know what came over me...
Silence A man joining those who lurk in an empty void; sinners who take their own life and yearn to be whole again, beckoning for others to join the silence.....	Is One Worthy? I had a lot of good in my life, but about a month after I had written this...as I predicted...I messed it all up.
Why Am I Afraid? This is one of my many question poems...	Your Eyes I wrote it about myself...
The Journey Not knowing your path:	Haunt You A poem about how words once spoken cannot be unspoken...
Some Times A poem about the difficulty in expressing yourself . . . some times	My Time Definitely coming of age...
++Your Decision ++ I haven't written for a while, so yeah here's a poem...Don't worry about the consequences.	Humanity What reality is "really" like...
My Brother How someone else can suffer too?	Illusion No. 55 Poem about the society, the world we live in…
Nameless I'll think of a new title, but for now it'll remain nameless. Depressing like usual, as should be expected. Very short. Luvs~forgottentears	....……A Dot - My World…...….. Life -- in my words...
A Friend From Above This is a about a good friend of mines…	Forgive Me My Lord A prayer...
Am I O.O I stopped writing because I didn’t want to offend myself or anyone who feels like I do.	Breathe About my best friend and me... I miss being with him.
Peace Is about doing the right and peaceful thing….	Diary Of Depression I wrote this along time ago, and decided to see what yall think. [[It’s short]]
In Time I'm not defeated!	~ Screaming Soul~ This poem is about my soul being in pain. I have better poems on here under, Jessica Hickey. Please Comment =)
Tears This is true... I wrote this after about an hour of crying... I can’t even remember why though...	Double Life This is how I feel sometimes...
Fake Yea I know how this feels... and that I’m not the only one who feels it...	Weird Yea I was in a weird mood... but it’s really true sometimes... I know some people have felt like this too...
I Have Lost A Friend After how I was feeling when A.J died. I miss him so much.	Whenever I dedicate this poem to our adviser Ms. H. Lobos. She is our chemistry teacher too and this day was her birthday. So. . .Ms. Hilda, this poem is for you.
Young Lady Something that holds some truth a little on the inspirational side…	Makes Me Sick A poem I wrote about this sick world...
Description Of Me Another poem...	Not God What some think....
Dear Charity A poem of my childhood....	If You Would Leave Getting rid of your soul, will not make this better.
First Period- French How we grow older and don’t even notice…	Twisted Twisted, sprung can’t let go…
Free How I feel after all the crap I’ve had to deal with…	Yearning A heart mending in need of a true soul...
Belief A short poem on my beliefs…	Mad Thoughts I was buzzled at the time lol…
The Broken Key Finding love. Tell me what you think.	Lord, I Love This Country How I feel about America, please tell me what you think
I Am Who I Am I wrote this for my mom to tell are who I am …	"Nudist Pictures-Free Exotic Stories-Beautiful Women in Competition- A Poem About Erotic Art, 'Mine'" Nudist pictures, Free exotic stories, Beautiful women in competition...
Lost Girl About a girl who cant decide who to b or how to live…	The Circle of Life It depends on how you look at it...
Delete Me... For you who don’t care about me!	Going Crazy? Facts that scare...
The Blossom A short poem about what I am feeling these days...	Acid Rain This is how I felt when Kirk Williams broke up with me.
Speculation Know yourself and enjoy your life!	The Good Kid's Id Everyone has an inner self called an Id and this poem challenges you to find out who's yours is.
Who Am I? This poem is very personal, let me know what you think.	Emotionless Why my poetry connects to others...
Give up the Climb Sometimes you have to give up to find the answer.	True Lies This poem came from the heart so I hope you all like it…
If I Could This is about all the things I would love to experience but are almost impossible.	Your Life!! It is something you have......
The One A poem about myself and how I have been feeling these past few months.	My Past, My Life I'm writing a book, and this is one of the poems that main character writes. Comment please.
Winter Soul A poem about loneliness and rebirth, fear and acceptance, heartache and joy…	Fever A pain that becomes addictive...
From This Moment Dedicated to Skyler!!!!!	Colors Of The Rainbow I was writing to my friend, and she goes, "What do you think of when you see a rainbow?" Well, here is my answer...
She Wishes for the Popem of Heaven It’s a parody of the poem, he wishes for the cloths of heaven by W.B. Yeats	Behind Just hiding!
A Light Behind Dark If you are having a hard time, you should read this .......	~~~My Happiest Moment~~~ Search for happiness…
Feelings From The Core Of My Heart It is a poem describing one's feelings for somebody close to his\her heart…rhyming might not be there so pardon me.	Part II I don't really have a title for this one, it's another one of my older ones that I found. I think it might be connected to the thousand tears poem, not really sure, lol
Found An older poem of mine that I found and re-edited, it's a little different topic than what I am used to writing…	Faith This one is about, if you have ever doubted something, (in the case in which I wrote this, I was doubting a relationship I was in) that there is hope as well, and that your faith in what ever it is...
Trapped Ok, this is my first peace that I’ll sub to this page. It’s about a person, with someone else inside his mind, a dangerous someone that he doesn’t like and the result of hatred.	The Flow Sometimes in your life the frustrations drive (inspire) you to write. This what I experienced and expressed, in my bad days.
Adam Spiritual...	Me Or Them A person has to choose between themselves or someone else…
If You Think I'm Not Important A prose that I.D's how I think others see me. A reflection on how I feel about how others see me.	I Don't Talk Not a death poem, just about not belonging in this world.
Blunder Blunder is committed. Now rise up and become strong to walk further in life. Bury the past and start afresh.	Mirror, Mirror On The Wall True reflection!
Cycle We all own this cycle! Each one, owns one.	Me Against The World A world screwed up...
Fallen I’m losing grip of my life...	Non Existence Hoping feelings don't disappear…
Keep Your Head Up Part of the truth...	My Life Is A Living Hell My life is a living hell...
Paper Cup! Everyone feels like this sometimes, well that’s what I think...	Shadows Darkness surrounds me...
Lost Angel She sits on the floor of the open room...	Sorrows I like my poem. Read and comment it if you like but do not judge me.
Sit In The Shadows I sit in the shadows, ones that get darker each minute....	Reason There are many choices in life some harder then others…
Stiff, Painted, Hollow I wrote this feeling confusion, out of control and nothingness. Not a good time in my life. Let me know what you think.. xo	I Am The Master of Myself! No other creatures can deteriorate; match the skills, talents and abilities of my being. For the Loving God gave a mind to think for the innovation of myself, He gave the eyes, the hands and the...
Imperfect Yet so perfect........how is it guys?	Awakenings This is about a recovering alcoholic. Thankfully, it's not about me. I welcome any constructive comments.
What Lies Beyond This is a spiritual poem, based on my personal beliefs. I welcome any comments. Thank you.	Melanonia Welcome to Melanonia.........
Slides Of Our Life A simple narration…	My Ghost This one kind of follows on from 'Lost' but is also about the same person as 'Lost' and 'Forever Friends'. Even if it was written about a different event it’s a similar thing…
Help When you need a hand...	Hang to Your Verge A poem about self confidence and to always and forever believe in yourself.
Lost I actually started writing these last two at about 3 this afternoon just after a mate said goodbye to me.	A Message To My Angel Gerly Ann… I love you so much…
A Poem To Gerly Sevilleno She's all that I ever wanted...	As We Kissed The way you looked at me...
My Heart So many days went by...	Can Love Be Yours? Is it possible to love someone with just your eyes?...
Lonely Tear You're a sensation inside me...	Hopelessness With you in my eyes...
Angel Sevilleno To an angel who owns my heart…	My Imagination Your fingers were between mine...
Grim Reaper Drawings and Childhood Mentors in the Doorway He said she'd sing in the dark grim reaper drawings pasted in a notebook hearing voices...	All Alone Your lips move...
Worry I thought I would never see my friend again…	My Many Feelings This is what I go through every day…comment
Silence Everlasting Just please read and comment...thanks.	That Girl Is Not Me Just please read and comment :P
Go To Sleep My Little Angle Go to sleep my little angel you’ll wake up soon…	One One Smile...
This Time Imperfect This is the intro to one of my favorite songs by the BEST BAND EVER...AFI! Davey Havok is an AMAZING and inspirational poet!	My Whimsical Musicians Artwork Does Map Fairy Tale Adventures-Part Two I am still thinking of your voice or someone's whimsical musicians artwork yet I do not hear those good intentions no matter how hard I listen.
~Tormented Beauty Queen~ Just please read and comment??:P! Thanks~!	Country Song Lyrics-Photo Puzzles and A Wing In the Fire of Moods I became someone in parenthesis.No matter my life may have in fact known darker days she would never know.
Cannot Change Who I Am Today When life just got too hard I did this…	Bedpost Agony I want you to be proud of me nonetheless…
The Harsh Darkness It’s happened to all of us…just some keep it for life.	~~Behind Every Face, Behind Every Eye~~ This is a poem for everyone, just to show how different you all can be. Myself included.
Fine Art Paintings and Beautiful Older Women Galleries I lean toward opportunities, beautiful older women and their galleries of age - ageless. The Universe does smile on them and hands them notes in the hallway.	You May Be Gone, But Never Be Forgotten Don’t grieve for me; for now I'm free I'm following the path God laid for me...
My Hidden Identity About how I hide the real me away from everyone I know…even him	Withering Soul Feeling time pass you by missing your life…
Wildfire Confidence uncompromising attitude allowing nothing to stand in your way…	Blessed Gifts we either don't see or don't care to appreciate…
Giver Watching over and taking care of your nurturer…	~Lost And Confused~ I don’t know…I’m so lost and confused since he left me…and I don’t know anything anymore.
~Changed~ My friends say I’ve changed since I’ve been with him...I know I haven’t and just need time to let people in again.	Aquatic Euphoria Drowning in love unable to stop it even if you want to…
My Life Sad poem...	Let peace prevail in my country soon..... When we lost hope for the freedom and peace...
I Need To Get Away... Just a poem about how I was feeling at the moment...not my best…	Who We Are We are who we are even if we never show the real person inside.
Hidden I’m only hidden because I don't want to be found!!!!!!!!!	Mirror What you see in others is a reflection of what you see in yourself.
Hope Only hope will take you to success…	Clarity Clarity of your own identity, seeing every part of yourself and knowing you want to change.
Life Hit Me In The Head Being hit in the head with life…	The Creek To Think There I was all alone...comment please...
Seth Shepherds Prayer My friend Seth told me this and wrote it down for me. I really hope you like it. (There is no punctuation b/c I could barely read his handwriting =D)	Darkness in the Light Comment please. I wrote this a while ago...
Run Away This is all I thought about when I ran away…	Do I Know Who I Am? Hmmm who am I?
~~Your Never Gonna Find Another Me~~ This about me being myself. No one will ever come close to me. Never.	What I Deserve Don’t you ever feel as if you deserve more in life? Or even a better life?....
Sad For those who needs to let out their real feelings…	Random Thoughts When you wonder about your life…
Look In To My Eyes Look in to my eyes and tell me what you see...	++Hope++ I make a wish...
A Wife's Lonely Plea A simple poem...	Baby- Did you Lie? Our Relationship- "Kurt" and I in my teenage Years.
You Took My Life Read it and comment. This happens too much in many of people’s lives…	Looser My gloomy mood…
Held Back No More This is about something or in this case someone holding you back…	Smiles Aren’t Me The Real Me Screams Fake smile not me the real me…read it please and comment it.
Think It is a four line poem and therefore a quatrain.	Charles This is about a man I once had loved…
Cry Your Eyes to sleep? For A Friend…	Photograph This is about a girl who is staring at a photo…
Mirror This is me...	Confused What is it that I am confused about....
Escape Not really about me necessarily, but about someone who doesn't really know where they want to go or what they want to do. They're stuck in life somewhat.	E.M.O This is what EMO stands for.
All about ME!! A poem based on Chloe. What she likes and dislikes.	Times Have Changed About getting older...
Infinite I wrote this after I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"	One Word Liars - There’s a hole in my chest...
Another Day Finding ways to improve...	Hidden By A Blink What you miss when you blink…
NiVaNa The ideas came after I read dhama book ...	Baby K For Amy and Brad - An Angel will come your way...
Burning Prayer Fire Native tradition says that the smoke from a fire can lift the prayers toward heaven...	I Strive To See A poem about life and the world…
Framed by a Film Maker My identity…	Silent Goodbyes Love and pain really do go hand in hand...
!~Fear~! This was a scary phase… so the poem is incomplete…	The Sun Moon Rising Of Above Evening water.........
God’s Relationship With Us For once god was a big thing in our world.... for now he is dust.	France To The US Mayflower descendants...
Holy Grail Knowledge. Can it be...	Another Angel Dedicated to my sister and her Angel.
Someone Else This poem is about me and the way I see myself at times. And how I wish I could be someone else.	Images When nobody seems to see what goes on under the surface emotions...
Angels Are Waiting Thinking of the day my dad died...and the angel my mother saw. And wrote this poem.	No Identity It’s about someone who thinks they have no identity but they do…
Creature Don’t trust some people…I learned the hard way…	Stereotypes I hate stereotypes...we are not soup and we don’t need a label…
My Own Me Too someone who tried to turn me into something I’m......not.	Angel from Heaven This was written by one of my friends, Josh Lovett with a couple of adjustments by me. I fell in love with his writing and I hope you do to.
I’m Only Me People often tend to feel as though they can't be themselves because of what the "in crowd" has to say. Well who cares.... I don't anymore.	Horrors People always have to judge.....they need to take time and understand you first...
Normal Not my best, but it describes rather well, how I felt when I first began to be me.	*The Moon, And Its Powers* The moon holds power over me... what do I do when I can’t fix it…
Moving On This poem's about a journey in a train, which is like the journey of life & the trees could be said to be innocence, fading away in the distance.	Our Life Onstage... How we perform every day has a great deal to do with the results we get...
Africa Africa is the origin of the first man on earth. Africa and its people are just as beautiful, as any other place in the world. However, the soul of Africa was destroyed by European greed for wealth.	Sex It’s not all about sex…
The Pentagon Was Bombed A poem about the truth about 9-11…	My Own Identity Be yourself - Here I am...
Sometimes I Wonder About spirituality, basically…	Posi-Traction Paranoid ramblings from the mind of a hobo, or homeless person…
Whirl-Wind Land Life's Journey...	Tell Me Who Spirituality - Who is this next to...
Think Pain is a necessity...	The Gathering Self honesty is often the hardest won prize.
Lonely There is no loneliness worse than not being loved for who you are...	Waterbug Some of us tread the skin of this earth lightly.. so lightly, we leave no traces.. matter so little...like water bugs, barely a ripple disturbs the surface.
Searching Searching for inner peace...	Life How I used to feel about life.
Why About a man beating his lady ...	Who? Wrote while I was bored in class one day – Look in my eyes…
In Doubt Just something that I wrote…	Money Money is what we all need…
A hole in my heart My heart is breaking because of you...	Shameless Shameless of the way you act...
Kiss How a kiss should happen...	The Streets About people who were raised on the streets or lived by the streets of the ghetto.
Bashed and Bruised A poem about me basically selling my soul to be accepted...	Friend... what friend? About some b***h I don’t care about anymore. She ruined my life with her stupid little boyfriend. Everything would’ve been better without her but I met her anyway.
Keep Away I hate it when people get into my business and ask me what's wrong and I say that I don't want to talk about it... but they keep persisting.... fair warning to you all.	That I May Forget That You May No More Be My Chain... It was fire that danced and was lost. I go toward this summer like the rain...
Would I Betray You Journey into public spheres with ardent hope and burning fever, would I betray you...	Vexations Emergence of self.
Isay Death... A Rite of Passage. Life is a choice and you've made yours...	Til this Day... A reflection on how life used to be with someone and how one copes with the loss of that someone.
The Cage What life brings is not always what we expect.	Not a Bargain I fall on my face in absolute awe at what was done for me.
No Regrets A very short and simple poem that I ask myself quite often.	Kicking and Screaming This short poem was written to remind me that there is One who I need to emulate.
The Promise To see through clear eyes at an early age would be nice but........	Keith and Kathy Davis This was written for my son Keith and his wife Kathy. Their marriage came at a time when I needed to see a son happy.
When We have all heard the expression. "If I knew now."	Smooth Sailing Ahhhh, the wonder years when the children are grown and at long last the house if yours.
Opened Heart The extraordinary love and bond between a mother and her sons.	The Tiger A mother must be many things... you must be gentle to be truly strong.
The Women An exercise in alliteration and discourse on the life of a woman.	Leeches When life is not what we planned and the children grow up...
The Valley When life gets hard let it it out in words.	Traitor Judas was a traitor. His last prayer....
Life A father may worry from son to son but a mothers worry is never done.	Miracles A simple discourse on miracles.
Fitting In This is a poem reflecting of the pain of being a misfit.	What Do You See The struggle to grab the carrot of parental love.
Tick Tock The heartaches that come along with motherhood...	New Mown Hay Memories of long ago... childhood
Light A short poem that tells how my husband helped me to grow.	A Long Line A look back at life from the down hill side.
Once Bepon a Time My granddaughter grows up and leaves childish things behind.	Nobody But My Cats The blues in dialect. When I’s down, Got troubles and woes…
Words The texture of words. Words are a soft rippling brook...	The Bumblebee Dedicated to someone who left the children behind her but finally did return.
Reflection on Aging Descriptive narrative on life's passage. So much may be said for youth and spring...	Generashuns This is a poem written in dialect describing the developments of aging.
Election year is spose tah mean A poem about our flawed election process.	Cutting to Existence My little brother cuts himself into existence.