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Best Self Seeking Poems

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


The Whispered Song
The warrior lays her weary head, 
With heavy heart she cannot bear, 
Burning tears stream down her face, 
As whispered memories touch the ear.

Her armour...

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Categories: self seeking, childhood, daughter, death, dedication,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Behind the Veil of Friendship Potd

       Behind the Veil of Friendship

Your friend, walks very slowly behind you.
Seeing the harm coming your way. 
His sword...

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Categories: self seeking, appreciation, friendship, poets, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Preciously Handcrafted
"We are moving fast towards an age where people will be lovers of self, lovers of 
money, self-seeking. Self-gratifying, laying aside morality, spirituality, family 
values,...

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Categories: self seeking, faith, inspirational, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith, Hope, and Charity
 
"And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13.13

Charity is called agape which means...

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Categories: self seeking, faith,
Form: Free 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 seeking, life, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Humility and Pride
Signs of humility is so very hard to find
so many pump up self think they're swell
but they forget God who constantly looks
for humble hearts, of...

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Categories: self seeking, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humility and Pride
Collaboration by Gordon McConnell and Regina Riddle

Signs of humility is so very hard to find
so many pump up self think they're swell
but they forget God...

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Categories: self seeking, christian, pride, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
At the crossroads of years, where stones whisper for centuries
At the crossroads of years, where stones whisper for centuries,
Inside unfolds the mystical drama of the self seeking light,
Through mazes of thoughts like leaves rolling...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self seeking, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Truth Came a Calling
There's A knock on my door,
 I ask "who is there". ?
Standing there are five faces. . 
They answer" IN UNISON "Truth"
I ask" Why the...

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Categories: self seeking, metaphor, tribute, truth, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Love Froze the Flame
So long, so very long, since the coal has burst to flame;
I have trained with restraint the green eyed monster cursed to flame.

For love is...

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Categories: self seeking, lost love, love,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Honest Living Love Alive
Sunlight beams on streets so mean..' As Love reaches out.'

A lonely widow toils unending, till day it fades then shares a morsel with her pet..'

Love...

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Categories: self seeking, love,
Form: Verse
Green Fingers
Green fingers

Morning light crept it's long laughing fingers
Around the edge of heavy dark curtains,
And cocooned, my chakra of pain lingers,
Not willing to welcome more of...

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Categories: self seeking, betrayal, jealousy,
Form: Sonnet
Manipulator
This whimsical notion he's not in the wrong,
He uses pity to manipulate and control all along,
Once he plays on your heart strings, he draws you...

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Categories: self seeking, abuse, leaving,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Because Love Is Kind
True fervor is persistent in its daily care
Breeding seeds of joy from evening to dawn;
That when trials rage, life finds grace
Embracing ebon nights... all else...

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Categories: self seeking, bible, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Silent Majority
Secrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth...

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Categories: self seeking, betrayal, fear, metaphor, power,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs