Best Selfish Poems

O
the bane
of being so slavishly in love,
to face another bloodless sunrise alone.
Myself, I’m spun in silken strands enthralled                       
yet, still stung by the...

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Please do not touch

Just read the signs dotted around the gallery display
So you take a selfie ...
What harm can it do?

Your camera shutter
clicks 
clicks 
clicks
as you take selfish selfie pics

Teetering on your high heels
you topple backwards like a destructive domino

Art gallery display 

C  


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Blinded by a carousel of fragmented glistening glass
An image of self,  pieced together by my own hands unworth,
Each jagged shard cuts deep the chalice of a selfish heart 
'Til blood, like words, curdle in the bowels of my own thoughts,
A faceless demere dissects the...

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How selfish you are, when you're the reason I live and the reason I die...
How selfish you are, when you compel me to laugh and when you compel me to cry...
How selfish you are, when you have my heart and when you have my soul...
How...

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A selfish man protects his family
        like a guard,he contemplates the welfare
   of his beloved family members,endures pain happily
            THEY ARE A HAPPY FAMILY

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The Selfish Poet

Posts their work, eat comments
as if at a feast.
But close their pen, when it
comes to a reply?
Inimitable,arrogance divine!

Do they in mirrors all day look?
Admiring only their face and poetry?

Am joyful to know that most here surely
are givers not selfish takers.
More than happy, they,...

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Don't go before me, please stay awhile, 
I want to remember your quirky smile 
and your dancing eyes and the lilt of your voice 
and the way you laughed when I gave you the choice 
of marrying me or, something worse,
to wander the earth forever...

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Many selfish parents never notice  abject feelings of children....

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Covid-

nineteen came,

earth breaths with ease, 

Man dreams of old days to

return!








© Demetrios Trifiatis 
      27 APRIL 2020...

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My confession
I murdered them all
impostors
claims of poetic devices
when the evidence was only
rants piled upon rants

A circle of praises
made the courts dizzy
the frauds committed
only added to their notoriety
under oath
all their poems shattered

The judge looked me in the eye
how do you plead sir
"Guilty as charged your honour"
I...

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ghastly gluttony 

one of seven deadly sins
with appalling good reasons

total self disrespect 
abusing one's own body
that wonderful mechanism

no remorse no thought
millions starving and dying

balancing haves and have nots



Submitted on October 22, 2018 for contest ONE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS sponsored by EDWARD IBEH ...

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I Write


Less words
	in a windowless room
                  no use for my eyes

Humidity suffocating
	what is left of me

I hear the silence of evil
	poverty a state of mind
		a shiny gold coin

Turns...

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They’re big fans of themselves
basking in mirrored glory
their own shadows they adore
will talk your ear off
if you let them
they’re everywhere
I unwittingly attract them ~ 
I may as well be a magnet
they love me because I’m quite happy
being polite not talking about myself
gives them the whole...

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Brilliant and dull,
Losing and winning,
Seeking and finding –
Among the dreams, a feeling…
She risks her heart,
And, finds her hope.
She rises in the morning,
To erase the darkest fears.
She wonders through shadows,
To abide beneath the light of love.
She kisses away the past,
With laughter because she’s gone.

Beautiful and hideous,
Winter...

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God gave us bodies.
God gave us our voices.
God gives us opportunities to make positive choices..
We can choose to be selfish and only see our needs
or we can choose to help others and invest in good deeds..
We can choose to shine our light where the darkness...

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