Best Self Effacing Poems
Letter To My Mother
...Realizing a fresh life growing inside,
What thoughts coursed through your mind,
I still wonder, oh dear my mom.
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or respond to it with a violent shock?
So......
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Categories:
self effacing, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
White Feathers Sprayed Red
...We war with impunity
And weaponise such things as the
beauty of flowers
And all for what ?
When come today we have to guard the statues and Cenotaph that commemorate our fallen heroes
O......
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Categories:
self effacing, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Ego
...Once upon a time there never was an Ego
For it was alive by the breath of wishes of those who were suffocating from it
I carried the cross for being egoist
Had my hands nailed, had myself hailed
......
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Categories:
self effacing, character, encouraging, growth, how
Form:
Epic
Unmeant Meanings
... Unmeant meanings
Words keep watch
their eyes in the empty spaces
fingers feel their unformed faces
Can words mean what they were not......
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Categories:
self effacing, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxii - Continued-
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXII
IF ever I had a country with or without nationality
And if ever I were elected or nominated Chief Patriot of this God-forsaken mis-carriaged country
And if eve......
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Categories:
self effacing, betrayal, patriotic, satire, slavery,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Only She Knew
...She knew, sadly, no one else
That he was incredible, self-effacing creature
Merely trying to unravel mysteries, roving in people's lives
And share tales from forgotten planets
Like hero born ou......
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Categories:
self effacing, caregiving, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Ballad
Better Hide Your Daughters
...Pressure's on, must think of some sillies
My mind's yelling back “Don't got none!”
Surely there must be a few not yet posted
Through the years I've written a ton
“Okay old smarty pants,......
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Categories:
self effacing, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
The Gift of Life
...The gift of life you gave to me
A heartless gift...we would agree
You didn’t even blink when asked
When surely some would be aghast
Forever thanks...I guarantee
You heard my self-effacing plea......
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Categories:
self effacing, hope, life,
Form:
Rondeau
Rajaram Ramachandran, You Will Be Missed Forever
...RAJARAM RAMACHANDRAN, YOU WILL BE MISSED FOREVER
You’ve left a legacy, a treasure to cherish,
The words of wisdom, the priceless pearls,
Each letter embedded with love and care,
For all the fel......
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Categories:
self effacing, memorial,
Form:
Verse
I
...I,
A solitary expression of monumental proportions,
The sum of all parts with extra to spare,
The word and the meaning at once,
Selfish and lonely,
I,
When it's me, I am everything,
When it's ......
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Categories:
self effacing, character, deep, how i
Form:
Free verse
The Prospect
...The approbation for approval of a bountiful elicitation.
An evocation that is a stimulant.
As it calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behavior.
Thus, we draw out an altruism for the phi......
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Categories:
self effacing, mystery,
Form:
Light Verse
Trees In Spring
...Trees In Spring
Beneath the trees, gazing up, I see
Branches reaching skyward, sprouting leaves,
Filtering rays through the canopy
That cause my eyes to blink breathlessly
From the mosa......
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Categories:
self effacing, nature, spring, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity
...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel......
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Categories:
self effacing, eulogy, extended metaphor,
Form:
Verse
Farouche
...Farouche.
By Feo.
I am shy child la rock,
Self - effacing, who seeks harmony,
A maze of thought,
The introvert from the clan of the bizarre,
Planted in the deca......
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Categories:
self effacing, beauty, desire, language,
Form:
Verse
Your Worthlessness and Emptiness Irk
...Widen your perspective and glide beyond and above the pride
Welling up in your chest, embarking on the sparkling quest
To eliminate and waste opportunities to progress as you ride
A high horse, as......
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Categories:
self effacing, poems,
Form:
Free verse