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Best Self Aggrandizement Poems

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Premium Member Mirror
MIRROR

so profane
looking me over
head to toe

a counselor
no - a judge
i’m ashamed

you shriek
infinitesimal fragments
fall to the floor
quite mad

i’m stuffed into this tiny dress
no one can tell...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, emotions, metaphor, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Dance of Poetry
My Dance of Poetry

When my soul and I dance in accord,
Then and only then
Will I be able  to write my poetry.
I cannot get more than...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, inspiration, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Newborn Daughter, Years From Now
Standing high upon the knot 
In my ladder years,
I claimed to be the king.
Now, the crown horrifies me.
Still some gentle cruise is within me.
Like Saturn...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, baby, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Natural Symmetry
Contemplate lotus
Free from self aggrandizement
Pure earthly balance...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, introspection, philosophy
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Permaculture's Political Lexicon of Grace
Compassion,
rooted in economic capacity and political experience 
within a co-empathic nutritional environment;
like before you came out of Mom.

Nutrition,
rooted in deep listening, learning, and, giving-and-taking, 
absorbing...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, beauty, earth, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Misconstrued Worship
Unload your appraised earnings
    in the collection baskets,
small price to pay 
    for holy water's kickback,
God thundered an indignant...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self aggrandizement, allegory, corruption, faith,
Form: Burlesque
Killing Elect
Though the bodies lay heaped
in gory blood-lust mass
and piled upon vitriol every curse
for the count of corpses
and innocent lives ended
such savagery they inflicted, stirred them...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, evil,
Form: Free verse
What Does the Eye Command
The eye wants you to believe
the eye sees everything
it cannot see
your identity
the eye is scared of all your dreams
it fears your individuality

The eye wants you...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, evil, future, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeking Flattery of the Crowd


Like a deadly drug, it makes us dance
Put our nose in the air, turn our backs .
Craven souls, want another chance.
Walking over friends, we call...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, character, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War of Politics
The country is at war again
War of hustle and bustle for power
Power for self aggrandizement 
All in the name of democracy 

Birds of prey are...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, abuse, allusion, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Homeless
In the storm of a creator’s inspired landscape
Spirit appeared as though since ever
Its invisible droplets of essence
Embedded in all recipients
Allowing for an errant notion of...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, introspectionhouse, light, house, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To 'Yelp' Duplicity
'Yelp's' a lark, (truth indeed?), maybe servant of greed?
You want 'natural' ratings? Please your advice heed!
Now your model for earning seems blackmail at best,
You pollute...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, abuse, fantasy, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Vertiginous View From Right Angle
High athwart global sphere
planet Earth doth app pear
tubby totally tubular as a mere
twinkling gem devoid of lesions from hare
brained schemes to exploit near
Gaea, where

legions of...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, america, earth, hope, horror,
Form: Free verse
Our Political Participation
I've come to say a few things about our political involvement,
Important is this because our future is on the edge of  precipice,
And is dangerously...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, allusion, anger, anxiety, motivation,
Form: Political Verse
The Reign Must Fall
The tyrants psyche is broken.
He sits in his gilded palace
Surrounded by his trusty band
Of armed thuggish cutthroats, waiting
For the inevitable end.
Outside the palace walls a...

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Categories: self aggrandizement, political
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things