Get Your Premium Membership

Best Self Indulgence Poems

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


Premium Member The Offering
Ironic tears that spill are mocking me
in scathing streaks delighting down my cheeks.
They trace their paths as soft as fingertips
atop sad ivories caressing pain -
but...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, angst, dark, loss, lust,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member How Much For One Night
To kiss moist lips and taste their sweet desire
Then see the need, that want, through lust filled eyes
How quickly sparks ignite a night on fire
Flame...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, kiss, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Brave American Knight
Driving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, character, hero, strength, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Generations
Denial is a can of peas
whose contents
should never be indulged
beyond the expiration date.
Yet there I stood, 
evidence screaming reality
at my eyes, their gaze steadfast
upon the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, birth, death, hope, life,
Form: Epic
Burning Sins
It is for sure, not springtime here
Shorter days now how bare His trees.
And looking back draws eyes to tear
For waste and loss of all my...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, faith, me, loss, loss,
Form: Quatrain



Hold the Dream
Hope and 
Hold the dream
Or you will die fast

Life is the name of- 
struggling frantic procession, chaotic crowd, 
lunatic tsunami of the ocean, scream on...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Builders and Destroyers
A single poppy blooms by the lake shore.
I can tell you how it came to be there.
Oh, I did not plant it, or give it...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, death, flower, life, self,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Now I Unleash With Rum Rage
You see I had lots of respect

NOW you are begging for attention 
and a reality check, so try me,
Try me like satan tried jesus,

Your trying...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, education, self, hope, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Week In Life
It is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, life,
Form: Epic
Social Status Effect
Miscommunication, is fabrication of reality
When actually it’s a matter of perspective.
She was a standout, with a name similar to yours
With pure intentions, painful convictions but...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, deep, high school, internet,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins


Seven deadly sins:
Pride, Greed, Lust, Anger, Envy,
Gluttony and Sloth.
No altruism found here;
One-way street to selfishness.

Pride, Greed...self-centered.
All goals directed inward
To please only one...
Taker-Greed...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, self, sin,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Kalamatsch
Kalamatsch

As a kid I played with mud in pouring rain
               ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, peace,
Form: Free verse
Refuge
Is this about the refuge life,
Leaking the essentials of being submissive…

Or shall the death defy your conscience
In being a human

Imagine the world without eyes
That sans...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, holocaust, metaphor, natural disasters,
Form: Acrostic
Greater Consciousness
Brewing a temperamental storm in its hurt
Hot and heavy for our once marvellous heart
Death’s shadow creeps in the once blue lagoon
Attempting to flush us down...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, earth, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healing Hands
A long, lost dream lay dormant for many years 
Beneath a constant sea of delays and indecision
Stuck in a routine so unappealing to my spirit
Hours...

Read more of this work...
Categories: self indulgence, life, on work and
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things