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Best Self Interest Poems

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Premium Member Heart Spilling Blood
Written: February 5th, 2024
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My heart is leaking...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self interest, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Do Not Just Whisper
1.
WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?

Or

Are we going to...

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Categories: self interest, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: self interest, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
It Don'T Matter
Come close, come closer ... 
let me bend your ear, my estranged countrymen
It don’t matter to me
if you’re a Democrat or a Republican
Your political persuasion
is...

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Categories: self interest, perspective, philosophy, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don't Dare Ask
We had no hand in this rape of nature
Yet we will bear its full weight and measure
Can climate be sentenced to certain doom
Is there time...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self interest, change, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet



Just As Bad As Nazis, Part I
You never hear a person say:
“True fascism has never been tried!”
But when it comes to Socialists
you hear that nonsense all the time.
From Venezuela to Russia,
from...

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Categories: self interest, corruption, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Seeds
The barren feed the barren
and empty hearts alike in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the...

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Categories: self interest, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Plea
My Plea

This my plea O world
That drags the dream of peace
Through the mud of wickedness

Rise
From the egotistic slime to wash away
Self-centered muck

Loosen 
Your profane feet...

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Categories: self interest, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peace On Earth
When all squabbles and wars shall cease
As for the complete world, we will create peace
Individuals ought to be more socially adept,
not scolding one another for...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self interest, analogy, appreciation, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Try Your Best
If we all tried our best,
To do everything we can
To make the world a better place
And to embrace our fellow man

Our skins may be of...

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Categories: self interest, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tongue-Tied Dispatches
 In the realm of self-interest, a curious soul,
Could not adhere stamps, sans wit owning a role.
 His tongue, like a rover in arid terrain,
Lingered...

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Categories: self interest, fun, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That's How It Feels

It feels like the best day, 
When our hearts spend the moments,
Sharing smiles and kisses, a warmth,
Beyond what thoughts have promised.

It feels like the best...

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Categories: self interest, appreciation, devotion, relationship, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Saviors Near - the Jewels Rule Style
~The Savior Is Near~
 (The Jewels Rule)


 Jesus  is near 
 With  Him  there's nothing to fear 
 He's returning any time...

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Categories: self interest, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just the Truth
The times have fallen hard now, to scenes played on 'unmade' roads
Without my volition, and despite intentions, goals;
Indifference took precedence; a lust of life was...

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Categories: self interest, freedom,
Form: Verse
Humane Struggle
In the Congolese Jungle three men are training for a mission.
They train to detain and disarm poachers.
They hope this will be the conclusion of their...

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Categories: self interest, africa, animal, conflict, environment,
Form: Sestina

Book: Reflection on the Important Things