Best Vainglory Poems

In my youth I was full of vainglory, 
wanting to touch the lives of many millions, 
nay, billions of strangers, my name known round the world--
my mark made godlike on their lives....

What nonsense! The famous die and their fame with them, mostly.
The few still remembered...

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The curse of public opinion,
feigned history of the truth

Generations of self interest, 
freedom—time abused

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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vainglory blossoms
as bud clusters make a show
— cold wind shakes them up

4/6/2018...

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If vainglory were a preacher
It'd resemble a rustic pastor
Lost in how profound his grasp of scripture is
Therefore echoes more of his fervent faith
Than the Creator's boundless might.

If vainglory embodied a nation
It would mirror a union divided
52 pieces striving for cohesion
But only sowing seeds of discord
A...

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