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Best Self Effacing Poems

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


Premium Member 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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: self effacing, character, encouraging, growth, how
Form: Epic
Premium Member Unmeant Meanings
 Unmeant meanings

	Words keep watch
				
      their eyes in the empty spaces
         ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self effacing, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self effacing, betrayal, patriotic, satire, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member 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...

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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...

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Categories: self effacing, hope, life,
Form: Rondeau
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...

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Categories: self effacing, caregiving, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form: Ballad
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...

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© Giti Tyagi  Create an image from this poem.
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...

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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,...

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Categories: self effacing, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Farouche
Farouche.
                        ...

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Categories: self effacing, beauty, desire, language,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Holy Nights
Silent Nights for echoing lack of resonant laughter
are not most Holy Nights
as purgation's self-effacing advent
opens sublime econormous therapy
of Earth Rights and Wrongs
as Our Grow Ups...

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Categories: self effacing, earth, humor, light, moon,
Form: Free 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...

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Categories: self effacing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Love Thyself
Regurgitated words, 
moments of retracing, 
demented, tormented, 
and self-effacing, 

Pointless retribution, 
shadowy diatribe, 
shielded delusions, 
salvation contrived. 

Self-realization 
needs no defense, 
adorned with self love,...

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Categories: self effacing, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs