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Self Effacing Poems - Poems about Self Effacing

Self Effacing Poems - Examples of all types of poems about self effacing to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for self effacing.
Premium Member From a Passionate Swain a Straightforward Declaration of Love Is Made
...I love women who gracefully dance And sweetly sing; and women who Avidly read and who brilliantly think; I love women who love to love— And who despise to hate—and who Receive and give of th......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, for her, grandmother, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Letter To My Mother
...Realizing a fresh life growing inside, What thoughts coursed through your mind, I still wonder, oh dear my mom. Did you gleefully welcome the news? Or respond to it with a violent shock? So......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gallery
...GALLERY a splash  of colour &  joy brought exhilaration   a repurposed compulsive fascination with  intensity an affectionate  motifs so graphic in a light hearted  brief of ......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Trees In Spring
...Trees In Spring Beneath the trees, gazing up, I see, Branches reaching skyward, sprouting leaves, Filtering rays through the canopy That cause my eyes to blink breathlessly From the mos......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, nature, spring, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Property Taxes Him
...Petals have now fallen from the final rose His forsythia bush is ready for pruning Weeds are taking over where his lilac grows And, fall bulbs not taken up are ruining. His backy......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, humorous, life, pride,
Form: Quatrain



Rajaram Ramachandran, You Will Be Missed Forever
...RAJARAM RAMACHANDRAN, YOU WILL BE MISSED FOREVER You’ve left a legacy, a treasure to cherish, The words of wisdom, the priceless pearls, Each letter embedded with love and care, For all the fel......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, memorial,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Orphic Spells
...Ex lovebirds of the tamest passion can turn so predatory. Passive aggressive schoolboys who mock whistle at ex-girlfriends for spite. Who scatter book bag contents in mock accidents for......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, 11th grade, boyfriend, girlfriend,
Form: Senryu
The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity
...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world when its concomitant panic and pain freak out it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled e'en as proctective gears barel......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, eulogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
White Feathers Sprayed Red
...We war with impunity And weaponise such things as the beauty of flowers And all for what ? When come today we have to guard the statues and Cenotaph that commemorate our fallen heroes O......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, slam,
Form: Free verse
Random Instincts and - Thinks -
...Smith Wigglesworth, on the Bible, the only book he learned to read at 23: "When I read the newspaper I feel dirtier than I went in. When I read the Bible I feel cleaner than I went in. And I like fee......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, angst, bible, education, jesus,
Form: Bio
Oven Theology: I Am the Bread of Life
...Smith Wigglesworth, on the Bible, the only book he learned to read at 23: "When I read the newspaper I feel dirtier than I went in. When I read the Bible I feel cleaner than I went in. And I like fee......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, best friend, betrayal, bible,
Form: Bio
Oven-Theology: Dedicated To Richard Lamoureux of Canada
...My prayer is that you, maybe with a word I share, will love the Bible & adore Jesus. O, it is THE Book of books, Best Romances, adventures, evil people & nations stopped, lessons taught! Peter denied......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, bible, community, forgiveness, gospel,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member 2020 Sight and Sounds
...Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes Dissociative injustice, like racist slurs and disinvestments, retributive oppression for not being SWM enough, has ecological roots in LeftBrain anthro/ego-c......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, earth, health, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Query From My Ex
...Am I really so flawed? Am I truly that odd? Crawling like a snake Into the canebrake A whoremongering fraud No wonder you don't like me.......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, anger, depression, hate, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Not To Show Off One's Learning
...Not to Show Off One's Learning (?? ???? ???? ???????) Instead Self Effacing, B'Tz'nyus, Otherwise, Imbibe Drink of Ego, Schnapps in Shrinking Hollowness, Rather Honor Your Fellow, Not Me!......Read the rest...
Categories: self effacing, friendship, integrity, jewish, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

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