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Best Self Deceit Poems

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No Manner of -Ites
I am praying for the day, 
When all walls will fall away, 
And we as sons and daughters, 
Will all truly obey. 
 
The commandment...

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Categories: self deceit, god, heaven, together,
Form: Rhyme



The Melting Gaze of the Sun
While the sun lent breath to the moon,
Steadily dropping the dusk of its guileless veil
Oh! Such eagerness in demise, I'd never seen
Madness dripping from the...

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Categories: self deceit, anger, dark, deep, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Massacre So Self Inflicted
A ripe body of Adolescence, nuzzled by beauty
on which hair is polished by crystals and sapphire
but lacks in the garrison of virtues and patriotism
becoming blind...

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Categories: self deceit, education, environment, planet, political,
Form: Epic
Prime
Dead thoughts
Rotting flesh
Create living cages
creatures paraded on stages
Go to church, pay bills, working; a living fraud
Self-awareness begets Self-deceit a reflection
A mirror unfairness - mirror of...

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Categories: self deceit, animal, god, longing, space,
Form: Suzette Prime
Patience Susan, Lemme Finish
Yes,but lemme finish Susan
Holy sermons,discourse,invocations-
Priest, like one possessed,
Less holy whispering.

It was a pleasure trip
Church at hill-top
Spreading death knell
How come you fail to hear it?
Ancestors lay...

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Categories: self deceit, family, me, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Words, His World
He used
to seek solace,
in the turbulence
found within 
his own
distraught soul.

With 
those words,
it brought him 
close to 
the brim of 
yet another low.

In a state 
of...

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© Gaia Ong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self deceit, fear, imagination, life, on
Form: Free verse
Heart Sewage - Harmatophile
(Heart sewage)

HARMATOPHILE

If I could I would

Turn off this love faucet

It has begun to back up again.

Flooded the basement

Filled with mud

Devotion, emotion and dust.

All this broken...

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Categories: self deceit, addiction, emotions, for her,
Form: Romanticism
Nwo World In Order We Knew
‘WORLD IN ORDER WE KNEW' 

Helpless Humans   /  Animals - Americans 
Useless Illusion  ;  Self-Deceit? 
... 
HURTING ALL. 
Either admit...

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Categories: self deceit, allegory, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Folie a Deux
Gradin foliums....

These Oratorians of self deceit

Dicentras bleeding hearts....Benighted

Trying hard to portray, something else

And then to justify, this begriming....

Through hollowed and piercing words

Projected towards others

These prima...

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Categories: self deceit, abuse, allusion, analogy, love,
Form: I do not know?
A Second Chance
A Second Chance
Time and tide the essence of movement and fluidity, rushing headlong in a whirl of past, present and future
Blurring the senses and imagination...

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Categories: self deceit, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Wyrm of Time
Through chaos flies the wyrm of time
Unyielding wingbeats do not pause
Untroubled by the pantomime
In constance serves no cause

Experience shall take its toll
And mete out pleasure...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self deceit, allegory, confusion, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Formula of Life
Adding all the fractions in my head,
Multiplying wonder by regret,
Cheating on my dreams as they arrive,
I have got my formula of life.

I have messed the...

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Categories: self deceit, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Folie a Deux
Gradin foliums....

These Oratorians of self deceit

Dicentras bleeding hearts....Benighted

Trying hard to portray, something else

And then to justify, this begriming....

Through hollowed and piercing words

Projected towards others

These prima...

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Categories: self deceit, life
Form: I do not know?
My Fight
My fight is not about fists and kicks
My fight is about absorbing pain and defeat
My fight is not about climbing the highest peaks
My fight is...

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Categories: self deceit, identity, imagination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dichotomy
Between light and shadow
Existence´s walked
Tiresome and obligated symbiosis
Wretched war bewildered heart

Sprung out from depths unknown
Desire to exist craving to be
Thrives in the split engulfed in...

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Categories: self deceit, creation, destiny, growth, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs