Best Self Respecting Poems
Below are the all-time best Self Respecting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of self respecting poems written by PoetrySoup members
Never Deal With a FairyThe fairies harbor secrets; many humans should not know.
Some will give one away for a price; that trade is very rare.
Make a deal with a...
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Categories:
self respecting, adventure, fairy, fantasy, image,
Form:
Tritina
The Marvelous PlatypusThe platypus excels at evolution
And displays a super cool solution
For making his way amidst the muck,
He don't run aground. He don't get stuck.
Of this, the platypus would...
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Categories:
self respecting, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Messages For Regenerating TimeThis revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Majority.
We think we begin to both comprehend,
in...
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Categories:
self respecting, culture, health, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Naming FishPeople often get stuck on what to call their fish
and in many cases come up with ridiculous things.
They imagine some kind of greatness, attached to
naming,...
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Categories:
self respecting, fish, funny, humor, pets,
Form:
Free verse
Grazing the GardenI retired a couple years ago
and decided to take a gardening class
because otherwise I probably would starve
even with food stamps,
given my retirement plan
was mainly to...
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Categories:
self respecting, age, garden, humor, poverty,
Form:
Prose Poetry
In the Land of Elephant DreamsELEPHANT DREAMS FALTER
The leading elephant fell
causing a huge elephant stampede
despair hit the herd
the elders denied the horror
All the animals in the kingdom of ignorance
and...
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Categories:
self respecting, christian, passion, patriotic, people,
Form:
Prose
Love ManifestoIt is love, not loss, we expect,
we long for and belong with,
we seek within
a cooperative economic network
rather than a competitive gain-over-loss
capital-rooted value system.
Love evolves more...
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Categories:
self respecting, community, culture, destiny, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Toast To the Bad Girl Or S WorkerHigh class self respecting ladies have nothing to worry about me.I prefer low class ladies because they are more high class(and oftentimes more interesting...
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Categories:
self respecting, beautiful,
Form:
Burlesque
Enabled EmpathyIt's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and...
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Categories:
self respecting, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Jeers To You
Cow chips and a bottle of piss,
perfect snack for your unclean lips
Hitting the fan
is a stale sewer smell
The six-by-twelve
room you’re living in
is a cancer cell
flush...
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Categories:
self respecting, allusion, metaphor, satire, wisdom,
Form:
Light Verse
Goodnight RomeGoodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons
and your streets that have become
as loveless as empty barracks.
For you I will never weep.
After all,
your Senators
Who made...
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Categories:
self respecting, anger, angst, anxiety, change,
Form:
Free verse
Said the SpiderA spider spreads its web of silken threads
shimmering all silvery white by the lake
waiting guileless for preys to find their breads
Its way is not to...
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Categories:
self respecting, fun,
Form:
Villanelle
Checkerhead
That was a nice move you just made
to get yourself crowned prom king
Checkerhead
But now you’ve graduated to playing chess,
and you can’t just jump the queen
You...
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Categories:
self respecting, gender, humorous, image, parody,
Form:
Light Verse
Dignified DamselsIt would seem much of the time that while so many so called self respecting, educated, so called independently minded women don't truly respect much...
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Categories:
self respecting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Alliteration
F L Y(First Love Yourself)
This man loved me for me
With all of my idiosyncrasies
Including the lunacy
Regardless of how I loved he
He was all about me
Not...
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Categories:
self respecting, anger, character, emotions, fear,
Form:
Free verse