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Self Deception Poems - Poems about Self Deception


Premium Member Self-deception
from a safe distance we sympathise we feel good about ourself without touching ego plays such games to deepen stupor and delusion knowing our attention span is limited...

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Categories: self deception, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Modern day pharisees
The Holy Spirit through our souls searches and in despair silently He cries: there are so many Pharisees in churches, exhibiting hypocrisy and lies. About Christ abundantly they know, their knowledge they're happy to parade, but not His holy image they show, preferring to fake and masquerade. Insulting Jesus Christ, our living God, they're blind to His teaching's higher goals. Theology so often twisted, flawed, is...

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Categories: self deception, christian, heart, jesus, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Kayaking Down the River of Lies
I eased our kayak into the river of lies. There was me, Dave and Jim, experienced guys. The current grew stronger, Jim said he would quit, He said it felt wrong, the scene didn't fit. Dave urged I go upstream and fight the pull. I called him a deceiver; he called me red bull. A rock of hard truth lay right...

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Categories: self deception, adventure, allegory, truth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member What the Mind Sees
A serpent with a lion's head Believes himself a lion He'll never raise his lowly tread But kudos, kid, for tryin'....

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Categories: self deception, analogy, animal, metaphor, myth,
Form: Quatrain
Die
We all know that someday we will die. When and how’s at the whim of a die. But way deep in our heart there's a minuscule part that will mutter: “Who, moi? No — not I!"...

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Categories: self deception, death, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Confirmation Bias
When we find our convictions attacked, we rely on a deck neatly stacked. There’s a cool little bias that will always supply us with a handy alternative fact....

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Categories: self deception, faith, humorous, irony,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Self Deception
Gliding past the mirror, the visage of sophisticated sensuality, tall with head turning legs that stretch to heaven, dark and tan, little black dress, tastefully shrink wrapped about hips and breasts, stiletto heals, black patent, defining calves and thighs with each step, but her smiling red lips can't hide the tear in her questioning eyes, “Who am I?” 06/08/2018...

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Categories: self deception, sad,
Form: Free verse
Infatuation, Self Deception
INFATUATION, DECEPTION INFATUATION, SELF DECEPTION WORLD OF LIES CROWDING MY SOUL THINKING IT WAS REAL THINKING IT WAS TRUE BUT IT WAS JUST A SELF DEPRECIATION A MAD INFATUATION I THOUGH IT WAS LOVE FOUND OUT THE TRUTH YET ANOTHER INFATUATION HITS HARD JUST LIKE AN ADDICTION UNHEALTHY FOR MY HEART WEAK TO MY SOUL CLINGING ON IN MY MIND UNSAFE AND UNKIND ©GDC2014...

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Categories: self deception, allusion, crazy, desire, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Self-Deception
You believe your lie today and and tomorrow you still believe your lie, as being your plain truth, then you are embrace with the deception of your own creation. Be not one who lives in the realm of self-deception only to realize that your truth is not the...

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Categories: self deception, adventure
Form: Narrative
Self-Deception
Homeless wanderer my bohemian moon. I continue my journey till the clouds manipulate. Crisp sky favours the stars in dark night of gloom of your failed promises, and my goddess of ruin. self-deception was a great relief ! Golden praise can do no harm. You were targeting the great sentences, and easy flows the river under sun, there was nothing left in the desert and slowly burns the...

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Categories: self deception, life, nature, peace, philosophy,
Form: ABC

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