Best Self Defeating Poems
Below are the all-time best Self Defeating poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of self defeating poems written by PoetrySoup members
Self Defeating RescueThe scream assaults my ears,
rips open my heart.
I catch Petunia, fat cat hunter,
and snatch the baby bunny
from her mouth.
Strong and determined,
she jumps free,
goes after her...
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Categories:
self defeating, animal,
Form:
Narrative
Out of Time!Planning your demise is like
tip-toeing on a tight rope
realising there's no net
challenging a
speeding car and
daring it to stop
mortgaging your...
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Categories:
self defeating, introspection
Form:
Verse
Categories:
self defeating, abuse, angst, courage, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Resonating Rightbrain PoliticsSays Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe...
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Categories:
self defeating, beauty, environment, health, political,
Form:
Political Verse
A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human MelancholyWhat is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of...
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Categories:
self defeating, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation,
Form:
Prose
Shameless Self-PromotionHere they go again.
anything to win,
indulging
in shameless
self-promotion.
layin’ it on thick,
makin’ sure it sticks,
slappin’ it on like lotion.
“click my stuff,
and I’ll click yours too.
wanna...
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Categories:
self defeating, angst, art, business, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Crying Out - 1Weighty sins grab me;
Crippling me from what I seek:
Close proximity.
On my own I fail,
without any scrap of worth.
I'm self defeating.
I scream out to you
with rage...
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Categories:
self defeating, christian, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form:
Haiku
Social and Antisocial CapitalHybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
reacclimating tastes toward richer anticipations.
We have all heard of social capital
and natural capital,
of social democrats as antisocial...
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Categories:
self defeating, culture, earth, health, language,
Form:
Political Verse
A Question of Balance...a tribute to Hermann Hesse and his novel 'Narziss Und Goldmund.'
Two friends in early childhood when their lives were worry free,
each pursued his own direction...
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Categories:
self defeating, dedication, philosophy, happy, prayer,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
self defeating, bible, judgement, life, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
self defeating, tribute, writing,
Form:
Quatrain
Sinai Campaign, 1967Sinai Campaign, 1967
“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground...
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Categories:
self defeating, education, history, jewish, war,
Form:
Verse
PerhapsDo you think it possible to smash stone cases with a pillow?
You would be wrong because stone vases can be knocked from high places.
It's the...
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Categories:
self defeating, change, conflict, deep, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Exchanged For YouthI will count no more those wasted tears
as gambled wages spent
for all my days in toiled years
were worthy of every cent
It's sure, not all my...
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Categories:
self defeating, sea, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Quatrain
Wife Driving Me CrazyWife Driving Me Crazy
That is exactly what she is doing
More of it appear to be ensuing
Both Hillary clothes and her hair
Should thrown away some where.
What...
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Categories:
self defeating, political,
Form:
I do not know?