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Best Self Centred Poems

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


Self-Centred Chocolate
Yummy and gooey
Self-centred choc stuck to teeth.
Sugar high on me...

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Categories: self centred, allegory, introspection,
Form: Haiku



Pun With Eggs
Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came...

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Categories: self centred, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self centred, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zephyr
Some express their pain,
some sacrifice it for others,
only poets turn it into poetry - (my quote)

Only poets can turn words into poems,
so those who are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self centred, analogy, loneliness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unforgettable Moment
Those were my green and salad days, 
a time of innocence and play, where
marbles shone like pearls and 
every trinket was a treasure. 
The world...

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© Ma Yaseen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self centred, for him, memorial day,
Form: Free verse



Private Romeo
Romeo Jaxx had a friend for a fool
So he never thought "Baby's in love."
He fought for his rights
and he slept through your dreams
With his self-centred...

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Categories: self centred, america, journey, lost, military,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member From Darkness To Light
Earth element

Driven by instincts feral
Self-centred stance
An animal in human form
Gravity pulled me down

Material possessions
I seized by any means
Territorial behavior
In an imaginary cage

Yet in this density
In...

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Categories: self centred, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet For Los Campitos
SONNET FOR LOS CAMPITOS TEAM
Orinoco flow to Andean peaks, the nation
Protests the chaos suffering and pain
Yet once more you young pilgrims made migration
To this distant...

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Categories: self centred, courage, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Soldier
I’m here, in this terror.
 Blood, blood puddles everywhere
like after a demonic storm of rain, but instead it’s human red liquid .
Splattering,
leaking and escaping.  
More...

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© Rose Lil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self centred, absence, betrayal, death, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Uncanny Stranger
The stranger is strange, pariah, leper sounds offbeat,
 Neither truculent, nor relevant, all destined to encounter the doomed relic;
The bizarre outlander, alien to stimulate the...

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Categories: self centred, fate, fear, grief, hate,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgiveness of Others
Warm, sticky hands palm off dry, self-centred ground,
Touched by gingerly acclaiming seeds of new-borns: 
Ready, willing and eager for the harsh, expecting role, 
Supposedly not...

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Categories: self centred, appreciation, forgiveness, friendship, love,
Form: Sonnet
Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live,...

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Categories: self centred, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Defining a Man ( a Letter To My Daughter ) Prt 1
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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Categories: self centred, lifelife,
Form: Free verse
A Recount and Recap of Lockdown Scenarios the World Over
Humans have long trespassed
and destroyed animal territories
Humans have poached
And selfishly encroached
upon animal habitats
cutting down trees to build
human habitations.
Now the tables have turned
Humans are quarantined  in...

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Categories: self centred, animal, environment, perspective, planet,
Form: Verse
Guilty Conscience
Girl Talking :It was my fault! Well…
Stage Direction: Begins fiddling
Girl Talking: I’m not too sure; I mean I do remember what happened. I have a...

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Categories: self centred, murder, mystery, mum,
Form: Ghazal

Book: Reflection on the Important Things