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Best Self Satisfaction Poems

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


The Truth About Adhd
Growing up with ADHD forces you to adapt,
impulsive behaviour controls how you react,
attention span wanders and naturally distracts,
you face an impact, that in fact, doesn't...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self satisfaction, anti bullying, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Is Love
Beginning with what it is not
Being certainly not transience we can slot

Calling a spade a spade
Love not an exchange or trade
‘I love you provided you...

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Categories: self satisfaction, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Miss You, Dad
Hi Dad, I miss you. I’m sure you’re very happy up there and all the prep you did while you were sick paid off in...

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Categories: self satisfaction, appreciation, blessing, death, father
Form: Prose
Premium Member Thankful
A man of few words, my father taught by example.
The best thing he showed me
was to set my standards high
and to be my own judge...

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Categories: self satisfaction, appreciation, father, games, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Then and Now
When did we lose days when truth was high,
when friend was a friend, years unending;
Government could look us in the eye.

Before hurling insults was trending,
seems...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self satisfaction, child, drug, pain, world,
Form: Terza Rima



For You the Life
good morning of day
tailor birds chirping out my window
mild breeze flowing

dawn of the white diamond
golden sunshine from the far sky
a piece of your smiling

fair and...

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Categories: self satisfaction, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fanning the Flames
Some love provoking the comfortable
Raising the ire of those set in their way
Stirring up tension among the implacable,
Start embers glowing, then walk away.

They wear the...

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Categories: self satisfaction, anxiety, bullying, hurt, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Arete
Note: "Arete": Pronounced [ ahr-i-tey ]

Sometimes our best efforts go unnoticed 
by everyone but ourselves.  
We strive mightily to succeed and accomplish 
something we...

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Categories: self satisfaction, poetry, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Goldfish
the goldfish 
looks out 
at the distorted world 
through a glass bowl
and tries to make sense of it 

he watches the room about him 
and...

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Categories: self satisfaction, death, fish, funny, grave,
Form: Blank verse
The Loop
(This is my first poem about myself, please comment.)

I wake up every single day
telling myself everything is okay.
I laugh, joke and smile
but that will only...

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Categories: self satisfaction, depression, emotions, gender, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poet In You
The experience of putting
your thoughts and feelings on paper
for the perusal of others
offers a self-satisfaction
that must be experienced to
be truly appreciated.

Letting your own words guide...

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Categories: self satisfaction, encouraging, inspirational, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
Misdirection
Here as I wander through this vast and sometimes unsympathetic world, with those who claim to be more civilized than they that walk with their...

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Categories: self satisfaction, education, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Didactic
Beat the Drum of the Gods
Beat the drum of the gods (dope chant)
curse rolls all over the land,
Evil prophets of distruction 
Every where
With their words of deceit 
Manipulating the weak
Evil...

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Categories: self satisfaction, africa, planet,
Form: Epic
Gory Games
Gory video games are playing on the television screen…everyone watches excitedly without a flinch of fear…where’s peace when I need it? Where’s love when I...

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Categories: self satisfaction, change, confusion, cool, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Self Actualisation
SELF ACTUALISATION

        S- Senses smoothly surpass
            ...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self satisfaction, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs