Best Envious Poems

Envious hearts would never be lovers of truth and justice but devotees to falsehood and injustice!*







(c)  Demetrios Trifiatis
          04 June 2016


* Today I received a soup mail from someone who never visits me, accusing me...

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Twas a laugh a minute, a cry a day,
Then you found her, and she took you away,
The days are now weeks, Seconds now gone,
The music stopped playing on our love song.

She now has your smile, your touch and your laugh,
How much I miss you, you...

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Whispers of the light,
Ring in the ears of the sea;
As jealous sands watch....

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Recently broke free from the chains of apartheid
the bottom region of the second largest island
possessing three power houses to the usual one
and one of the local champions spare heading its region.

It has its own share of true records
housing both the smallest and largest plants.
The only...

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overcast  sky broods, darkens, threatens
crystal creek tumbles, splashes, sparkles

       "nagalugitom sa dag-om ang kalangitan 
         nagalukso-ambak, nagkidlapkidlap ang sapa"

might be the sky envies the creek's mirth,
the frolic of butterflies and...

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On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary

[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say,  in thinking or assuming that being envious in an inveterate...

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This is the greatest struggle that mocks me, 
To be a distant sigh, caused by this queen;
A rose that has yet to compliment thee,
beyond the scope of eyes, already seen. 
There is mystery in her soft appeal, 
a humble frame that solicits my quest; 
and...

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An add to two to form a paste
three in a tie as a broom
try to fit in, it's a waste
one to gel on two in the room
not on a ban, the spy has taste
one bad eye to bid for a groom
can aim, fly and get...

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Night dons a sequenced shawl,
sparkling with trillions of stars, like cosmic candles;
twinkling within the blackness.
And a golden moon gleams like
a precious bobble mirrored on a placid lake;
where gilded ripples dance to the sound of applauding waves.
Vampire shadows, clinging to shifting silhouettes,
gorge on remnants of blood-red...

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Spring on hiatus
Begrudging everyone’s wish
A long hot summer...

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The  envious peach tree watched the nut
produce great quantities
so she resolved to do the same
“no one out does me.”
When the harvest came
her children did abound
which caused her roots to snap
and broke her to the ground....

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In Greek mythology Partenope was a beautiful siren
who frequented the shore of Cuma on warm days
to deride the strong and handsome Odysseus
who was madly in love with a very young woman.

On that shore of delightful scents there was a pristine beach
washed by a pretty sea...

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Have you ever wondered
Why our wars have no end?
And peace no friend
No settlement, ever wandered!

The deadly potion, envy
A loving poison, hearty heavy
A crush of love, mould of hate
Rise of a lethal mind state...

Do you ever wish an end
To wails and agony of wars?
Let love wrap...

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We’ve got the crown and gown
They’ve got the fiery frown
… cruising around our town...

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Envious of things ever so various 
Furious of others’ successes 
Paying close attention to goals becoming precarious 
That have deeply consumed my mind 
Especially what others have achieved in little time. 
Focused on everyone else’s aspirations 
While my own goals continue to decline 
Submissive to...

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