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Best Vanity Poems

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Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanity
There lives a silent evil deep within
Which once was locked inside Pandora's box
Now said to be the "father of all sin"
And one's denial is it's...

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Categories: vanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sheol
Dark Knight-tress 

Underneath 
This gown I feel nothing
Silk less feelings
The odor of intimate apparel lessens 
Vanity fare from any sun
Warrior of beauty
Where have you gone?
A...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vanity, abuse, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Wallpaper
WALLPAPER

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Paper Thin
Cut down to any size,
Crumble, crop me wrong 
Pull the insulation from my heart.
Never will I be "A Paper Doll!"
Thank you for calling me...

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Categories: vanity, change, creation, friend, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Devils Deadly Dime
Devils deadly dime

The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...

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Categories: vanity, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Drunken Moon
~twice the beauty~


in the sea of love 
reflection of the night 
a wave moves


~SKAT~...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vanity, beauty, dream, muse, romantic,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Tangible
What things does one possess
at journey's end?
What bits and bobs? What trivial tripe?
Please, do tell, what is the hype?
For should I recall anything at all
of...

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Categories: vanity, nostalgia, philosophy, today, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Me Own the Night
Let me own the Night 

Let the others play on bright sun-filled days,
in song and merriment, play on.

Let me own the shadows that seep into...

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Categories: vanity, allusion, metaphor, morning, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Lady
"bag of bones"


I wonder if when you look at me
You can't bring yourself to like    the  vanity
Lost  somewhere  inside...

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Categories: vanity, age, beauty, blessing, judgement,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forgotten Treasure
FORGOTTEN TREASURE

I've found the fountain of youth
When I stumbled across the forbidden garden
Right in the middle of everything
Was what I imagined being a wishing well
I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vanity, adventure, art, beauty, encouraging,
Form: Light Verse
Never Surrender
I'm a grit teeth beginner breaking out the cage,
growing strong and fitter with wit coming of age,
squeezing letters out of lemons got me in a...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vanity, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Vincent
July 29, 1890

Colored daubs and swatches
crave artist’s practiced hand.
Justice, nearly blind, yet watches—
unwrought art upon a stand.

Regard the brushes in a row—
the palettes and the...

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Categories: betrayal, corruption, evil, vanity,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pretty In Pink
Fancy feast
In my best china dish
How she loves to be finicky
Wearing nothing but
Her pretty pink rhinestone collar
As she tiptoes across the room
Slinky and sleek
With a...

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Categories: vanity, cat, fashion, life, perspective,
Form: Personification
Exit 7b
1.
they say everything here is
somewhere in the middle of the road
where names get bleached and keys forget about their doors
and there is something we should...

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Categories: vanity, feelings, imagery, lost, urban,
Form: Free verse
Clouded Mirror
The intricate and winding complexity of this aged device groans as its worn exterior strains.

Though delicate, it punctures through the malice of fools' logic, gripping...

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© Paul K K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vanity, allegory, appreciation, beauty, emotions,
Form: Burlesque