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Best Self Absorbed Poems

Below are the all-time best Self Absorbed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of self absorbed poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Labrador
If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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Categories: self absorbed, care, creation, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Quietus
In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent 
a martyr wades - 
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed...

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Categories: self absorbed, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cosmos Configurator
When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Categories: self absorbed, fantasy, space, old, star,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
You and I and I and You
You, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy...

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Categories: self absorbed, anger, beautiful, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rites of Passage
Remember the day
Apron strings loosed,untied
as maternal voices faltered and cried
Remember the day
When a soprano voice lost its elan
and a boy became a man
Remember the day
Peer...

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Categories: self absorbed, childhood, life, love, passion,
Form: Bio



Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
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Those who lash out when the heart speaks
avoid the many mirrors reflecting themselves
For in this rippled dream,
where perfect does exist
and mistakes are long gone like...

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Categories: self absorbed, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgotten
Our lives are consumed 
With vice and pleasure
Self-absorbed with blinders
And avarice for treasure
The majority indifferent
To the plight of our parents
Or the generation before them
With their...

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Categories: self absorbed, community, discrimination, education, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sly Fox
slinking through the woods
finding camaraderie only from wolves

heartless, relentless, self-absorbed
predator of the vulnerable

devouring her soul
crushing her hopes
devastating dreams
finding satisfaction when she succumbs

the fox knows nothing...

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Categories: self absorbed, introspection
Form: Free verse
Blame Who?
Don’t point your finger at the thief
For losing sovereignty
It’s not the fault of Hollywood
If God, we don’t believe.

The pace of life accelerated
When first we wouldn’t...

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Categories: self absorbed, faith, forgiveness, history, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tongues
The Lying Tongue
sang a song
The Flattering Tongue
played along
The Know It All Tongue
intended the composition
The Meddling Tongue
held it's position
The Harsh Tongue
kept quiet for once
The Tactless Tongue
reluctantly...

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Categories: self absorbed, 10th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rain
They say when it rains it pours,
and I say:     Does it ever!
For I remember such a time as that.
It was a...

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Categories: self absorbed, life,
Form: Free verse
Masquerade
Living in a masquerade
Hiding our truths in the shade 
Veiled Behind electronic devices 
The Physical world Minimises

Concealed behind a blue and white light
No melatonin released...

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Categories: self absorbed, addiction, computer, slavery, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Love You Dad
So many things I want to tell you my Dad
But I choke up in tears feeling awfully sad,
I grew-up so fast since the day you...

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Categories: self absorbed, grief,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member As Royalty Could Only Dream
We live as kings and queens of yesterday could only dream
   Central heat, plumbing, air-conditioning, washers and dryers too
We shower once or twice...

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Categories: self absorbed, humanity, technology, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nine Bubbles
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                Big Bubbles
       ...

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Categories: self absorbed, allegory, children, wisdom,
Form: Concrete

Book: Reflection on the Important Things