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Self Defeating Poems - Poems about Self Defeating

Premium Member That's what you get - Paramore
... "I drowned out all my sense with the sound of it beating" Paramore On the dangerous train of letting my heart lead To experience love and belonging, however fleeting I know the end o......

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Categories: self defeating, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beloved
...The God of all creation loves you most. Family, friends and neighbors love you too. You are His masterpiece, and Heaven's boast. Our self-defeating lies are so morose! The crux is nothing matte......

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Categories: self defeating, god, life, love,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Upon Waking
... I woke, and in a voice unlike my own, I spoke, "Am I having nothing more than a dream, and my heart deceived by a reverie in a cloak?” I beg, tell me things are not what they now seem and that ......

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Categories: self defeating, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Being brave in the dark
...Look at that girl She was so sad and lonely Look at that girl She's over there self-defeating Look at that girl. She is so brave And she doesn't even care anymore And she doesn't even care a......

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Categories: self defeating, dark, song,
Form: Lyric
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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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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Categories: self defeating, anxiety, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, america, freedom, green, motivation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, culture, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, appreciation, confidence, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, introspection, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: self defeating, earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

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