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Self Deceit Poems - Poems about Self Deceit

Truth Shall Prevail Or Fail
... The whispered promise etched in ancient stone, "Truth shall prevail," a seed divinely sown. A beacon burning in the darkest night, A guiding star, a testament to right. We cling to it, a li......

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Categories: self deceit, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paradigm Of Shape Shift
... For the maneuvered inducement of compulsive being, the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness, the personified convoluted identity, changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange, whil......

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Categories: self deceit, analogy, image, motivation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pearl Harbor II
...As solitude neglects the Harbor door the Heavens fill with vengeance from the sky, and all below can only watch them soar for crippled decks were useless to defy. The devastation rendered from th......

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Categories: self deceit, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member In the twilight of our consciousness, where shadows intertwine with subtle grace
...In the twilight of our consciousness, where shadows intertwine with subtle grace, I wander through endless corridors, seeking truths in this forsaken place. This world, the sole reality, with all i......

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Categories: self deceit, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Wings Of Fire
...Into the dark corners of desire, long left standing upon the un-swept floor of secret yearning have I strived to press your memory away. Which over time of endless days and with a heart now ......

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Categories: self deceit, heartbreak, heartbroken, longing, lost
Form: Free verse



Fools in the Dark
...Brush against my shoulder. Gently, gently, friend or curtain in the wind. Light a candle, I’m not looking. And when all the lights have dimmed: come comb through the thicket of my armpits, ......

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Categories: self deceit, care, dark, friendship, how
Form: Free verse
Sea Change
...Its quest is over. Life's. Wholesome-faced. At this drop off point, a world's Sea-washed. Effaced. Shackled by which search, a slave's Profitless, for coin Proved it, toward more and more Be......

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Categories: self deceit, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Social-Hallucination
...Tick tock, No time for her son, ‘On Tiktok bleeping her cleavages to strange men, Social media hallucination, living a lie, Here, everything is perfect, The sky is blue, it never rains, Every......

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Categories: self deceit, family, fantasy, lust, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dichotomy
...Between light and shadow Existence´s walked Tiresome and obligated symbiosis Wretched war bewildered heart Sprung out from depths unknown Desire to exist craving to be Thrives in the split en......

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Categories: self deceit, creation, destiny, growth, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
...I shout at Dad, I shout at Mum I shout because my life's humdrum a snap snap snapping teen snare drum I was so dumb; I was so dumb. I shout at him, them, and others each and everyone that smot......

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Categories: self deceit, anger, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
No Manner of -Ites
...I am praying for the day, When all walls will fall away, And we as sons and daughters, Will all truly obey. The commandment to love one another, Is the great and first commission. To l......

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Categories: self deceit, god, heaven, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trick Or
...I use make-believe overwriting memory to bring me some peace The fiction I’ve weaved you’re at the store - you wouldn’t leave is a fool’s relief So I take mine neat sweet opiate of self-de......

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Categories: self deceit, 12th grade, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Senryu
My Fight
...My fight is not about fists and kicks My fight is about absorbing pain and defeat My fight is not about climbing the highest peaks My fight is about self-realization overcoming self-deceit......

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Categories: self deceit, identity, imagination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Bury Not Your Hopes In the Garden of Self-Deceit
...Bury not your hopes in the garden of Self-Deceit, Hoping they will come up blooms – They will not, And you will be the worse for it But try all the same To Love! To Love, to Love, To Love, To L......

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Categories: self deceit, confidence, discrimination, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Birth and Rebirth In a New Dawn
...Steam driven ashes and lava from volcanoes Obscure tomorrows Exploding from bean pods and tomatoes Beseeching and seeking halos Our lives require To earn a rebirth Inspire and inquire Whethe......

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Categories: self deceit, poems,
Form: Free verse

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