Best Selflessness Poems

My wrongs were long ago
my rights corrupt my mirror
i'm about to run...

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I'm old enough now to make new friends,
Let me find an enemy, so as to know true amity.

We've been always sharing selfishness,
But let's make our way towards selflessness....

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i was thinking about us
I mean
the immense amount of people
like-minded
and very similar desires
and then I asked myself
if what sets us apart
and determines our individual success
it's just the strength of our will
or the end result is achieved
by our level of selflessness...

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People in this world taking a stand over helpless animals being tested for human products, unproven and possibly unconnected effects on climate change, sat with knickers twisted over Trump and Brexit and eating anything but meat so as not to bring harm to animals, protecting...

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Quote unquote friends i have made since he.
How do they see me now? Was i just a sign on a highway? Just looking and cruising me by. 

    Its good that my peers know how i operate yet, it unsatisfied me that...

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Love isn’t amorousness,
Nor is it hunger nor thirst,
With vehemence, I insist:  Love is a perpetual motion machine
O!  Break!  Break!  Break!  My Hardened Heart!
Be shattered by Love,
And let all your disquietude be shaken out of you, like candy out of a...

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Peter dove in, waves all upheaving, raging
Sure as blind eyes always are, never doubting
Saving Sandra, fallen in, shouting, blurping,
Sandra saved Peter!

(fiction)

2/28/2019...

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Trenches failing, sagging and crumpling, falling
Dad jumps down in, holding a sheet of plywood
Quick lads scramble out of a filling tombhole…
Who will save Dad, now?

(fiction)

2/28/2019...

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Kindness.
Utmost selflessness.
Giving, empathizing, understanding.
Sunshine in people's lives.
Compassion....

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Mother’s Smile
by Michael R. Burch

There never was a fonder smile
than mother’s smile, no softer...

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Beagles’ breath I love now as I awake.
Your wet tongue keenly laps my chin and brow.
I know your love is true and full, not fake.
You impart your joy and love to me now.
The battles of the night have bled away.
And my eyes can blink back...

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as you lay down beside me in peace whilst you sleep
i think of the pain thats stored in you so deep
amazed every day just how you still show so much care
the worlds full of goodness but yours is quite rare

you would give your last breath...

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There was a steadfast vampire, who never chose his fate.
And when encouraged by his peers to kill, as was his trait,
He shook his head, and staunchly said, “A life, I will not take.”

“For yours, you will,” they laughed, so shrill.
So sure that he would fail.
But...

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The strokes of angry waves painted,
Beneath a sky of charcoal gray.
Did you feel it even then,
The water's rise above your head?
Bobbing up and down,
Slowly losing ground,
As they tried to hold on
To the clothes which become

Your coffin.

Knowing this you went anyway,
To try and save
Someone you never...

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The hours lean heavy,
laid like bricks with no mortar,
a survival gripped together by determination.
You are half truth, half courage,
escape before they bring the cracks to the surface,
before it shows, before the weight.

It’s not the clapping that stirs you,
not the glow of some imagined end,
but the...

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