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Self Defeating Poems - Poems about Self Defeating
Self Defeating Poems - Examples of all types of poems about self defeating to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Squaring Things Away
...Perfection as a goal demands correction; accepting mistakes requires some reflecting.. Call me a square if you like but I'll admit when it comes to money, I keep short accounts. Simplicity puts......
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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
self defeating,
11th grade, money,
Form:
Quatrain
Beautiful Blue Butterfly
...Beautiful Blue Butterfly In life we go through changes and we all start out as an egg, later down the line we grown into a larva in order to grow we had to eat and to eat was to survive. Once we ......
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Chelsea Irons
Categories:
self defeating,
anxiety, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
Unformed Until the End
...Woodland dells, giant trees Swallows swoop, defying breeze Jump to sailors and tattoos What part of time is a ruse The fact a tree, outlives a man But cannot hope or devise a plan Has no say on......
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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
self defeating,
anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Our World's An Awfully Dangerous Place
...Chairman Xi, like Chairman Mao Vladimir Putin, shades of Josef Stalin Kim Jong-un, plus Recep Tayyip Erdogan Iranian Mullahs producing drones and bombs Our world is an awfully dang......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
self defeating,
america, freedom, green, motivation,
Form:
Couplet
Words Aloud
...I've never been a coward I've never been named Howard I'm not a doctor but I'm like a doctor Struggling with patience And I hate this and how I debate this Delete this, delete that Like I delet......
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Christopher Goss
Categories:
self defeating,
encouraging, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing Rainbows
...I'll be happy when I reach my goal. Meanwhile I'm sad because I'm not even close to getting there. Why postpone happiness and make it dependent on goals and changes needed to get the rewards ......
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John Anderson
Categories:
self defeating,
rainbow,
Form:
Free verse
False Truth
...How we act, and what we say . . . Define us largely as human beings. And those actions and words, tend to be Driven by, mostly our ways and means. Does this lead to ongoing divides, bet......
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Timothy Mattson
Categories:
self defeating,
truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Green Peace Resonance
...At first we had traumatic stress just being born and later shock of near death, physical and mental, natural and spiritual, lack of health and unsafe, messy wealth. Then traumatic cultural ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
self defeating,
culture, green, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Isolation Consolation
...wash up and lock our doors overnight we’re told to stay indoors while mankind is under attack it’s the best we can do to win a war against our invisible common enemy time caught in a meaning......
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Line Gauthier
Categories:
self defeating,
appreciation, confidence, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Stop It
...Stop the bleeding Stop self-defeating Stop demeaning The real meaning Stop the outage Get out the mind cage Stop the stressin' That leave you guessin' Stop the relapse You'll break your kne......
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Christopher Goss
Categories:
self defeating,
introspection, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Homage To Integrity
...Mental and physical health require, and contribute to, Integrity. Integrity has two faces, internal and external, climates dominant and subordinate, cultures poly-inclusive and mono-segregat......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
self defeating,
earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Sad Story
...Being Becoming Self-defeating Mean labelling Address Vain caress Self-destructive Touch explosive Manage Such garbage Mad emphasis Empty stasis Leon Enriquez 02 November ......
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Leon Enriquez
Categories:
self defeating,
allegory,
Form:
Couplet
Deceitfulness
...Denying the truth is deceitful Evil and goodness cannot co-exist Counterfeit is a substitute for the real Erroneous information can be misinformation Ignorance is neither blessed nor blis......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
self defeating,
addiction, christian, eulogy, evil,
Form:
Acrostic
Greeting Cards
...I love receiving greeting cards On birthdays or occasions And sending them, as well, Which kind of evens the equations. Yet lately they are hard to find – So many stores are closing And peo......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
self defeating,
birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Endurance
...The first time you tried to walk you fell, look at you now staying up right so well, often the first attempt at the unknown is simply "chance" with luck thrown, tough times challenge and cause st......
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Nick Trim
Categories:
self defeating,
uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
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