Best Egoism Poems

For many decades now
We- your unfeeling and spoiled children- dear mother earth,
Have been mistreating you
Each second
Each minute
Each hour
Each day
Each month and 
Each year 
Causing you...

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(So many were protesting about America's secret involvement with ISIS but I didn't believe it until I read this latest news, shocking and disgusting. Poor...

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Faith can be many things to many people.
It is not claimed only by those who are Chrisitans.
Since ancient times, many have acted on faith
even performing...

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For decades now

We, your children, dear mother earth,

Have been stabbing you 

Each year

Each day

Each hour

Each second

Causing you to bleed profusely, while 

We indifferent to your...

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My Lord, when you sit on my throne....

When I was sitting on my own throne
I felt that I was a worthy and proud man
I did...

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Lord, when you sit on my throne....

When I was sitting on my own throne
I felt that I was a worthy and proud man
I did not...

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It is useless to pour water
To a downward pot
Though it is necessarily critical 
In a drought of thirst

Person in pretence of sleep
It is difficult to...

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No
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To quench my desire for justice with the
Peak of my poor pen 
To quash intolerance,...

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Defining a Man ( A Letter to my Daughter )

What is a man in these modern day attitudes and parlances of our times
harder now, I...

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Souls in fear of uncertain but rampant chaos, 
Where the cities bombed and thousands slayed, 
Houses broken and the valuable coffers emptied, 
Innocents trafficked and...

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Dead Man Tales
shards of glass pearl the emperor's rise,
his arms embracing upon our sins and lies, 

do not deceive yourself , my friend.
in the twilight...

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SECRET OF HAPPINESS



If a morsel

Of

Egoism on the altar of love one sacrifices  
Each day 

Manifold 

The gains of heart and soul in happiness ...

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For decades now

We, your children, dear mother earth,

Have been stabbing you 

Each year

Each day

Each hour

Each second

Causing you to bleed profusely, while 

We indifferent to your...

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To The Youth Of The 21st century 2011
12/03/20110 Comments
 
The under 30 crowd needs to check the over forty crowd, what kind of mess are...

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Nowadays, when I look at sunset I feel as it is the last one...
We have a big problem!
All of us on the Earth must ask...

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Call it condemnation or appraisal ,
It is far from it ;
I write from the bottom of my heart…
Full of sorrows and pain ,
That the world...

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THANKSGIVING PRAYER


I thank THEE Oh, LORD
For 
All the treasures, THOU HAST
So generously upon me
Bestowed:
My life
My sight
My Hearing
My touch
My scent 
My taste 
My arms
My legs
My brain...

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No relationship

Would ever flourish in the garden 

Of bliss


Unless 


Egoism is uprooted from the pristine 

Soil of love!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
   19 October 2015
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I asked a scientist to make an olive's leaf,
So green with its juices,
Smelling spring and sweat from gatherers hands.
He answered that he couldn't.
I asked him...

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Her chestnut hair, loosened, cascading endlessly, 
gone. 
Her never-tiring gaze searching the corners of my heart, 
gone. 
Her smile so radiant it outshone the sun,...

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I too was once loved
As I remember
A time when his name
Caused seizures in my tummy
Oxygen debts to my beating heart
Dreams to my forgotten mind
The north...

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My Lord, when you sit on my throne....

When I was sitting on my own throne
I felt that I was a worthy and proud man
I did...

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Man needs many things in life:
Food, house, children and wife;
But the thing which is needed the most
And could be given away at no cost
Is man’s...

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The Essence of Praying

A poem about the value of praying inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

Pray to contemplate the joys of life
As a prayer removes the...

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