Self Aggrandizing Poems

Fixer Upper

...Having lived in multiple ports
Comingling with people of various sorts

Living in luxury or existing in squalor
Coffers full or down to last dollar

In town after town one constant remained
Pe...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, confusion, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHealthy Voices

...I grow increasingly concerned
about living in an unhealthy monoculture
of educational
evangelical
judicial
legislative hubris

Rhetorically LeftBrain dominant
verbally debating
which empower...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, addiction, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse


Premium MemberDemagogues Left Right and Center

...sharp words 
scratching against the fabric 
of civilized society
slowly tearing apart 
the structure
of reason and tolerance
ignorant assaults  
launched by loud
self-appointed
self-importan...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, political, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCrappy Politicians

...I’m thinking we’re on a downhill slide
With self-aggrandizing politicians now,
Bloviating so self-assured and snide
Paying no attention to their campaign vow.
With an eye on their big monied dono...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, anger, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWithin a Seed

...Within A Seed

Biological form in seclusion which darkness enfolds, anxious unlike the

meditating lotus flowers floating in tandem, fully conscious. In a vacuum,

innocuous, molded in an inner...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, confidence, endurance,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSeeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her Hand

...Poem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent

poem ,  "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"

 (1.)  Poem One

Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberFame Not Required

...My great challenge for fruitful wisdom paths
is credentialed expertise.

My obstacle to polypathic health
is self-aggrandizing comfort,
cheap ease,
self-sufficiency,
detachment.

Obstacles t...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, earth, health, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSeasons of Life and Death

...Life or death
is a left-brain dominant cultural assumption,
While right-brain is more comfortable
with life and death,
health and pathology,
nuance of co-arising dipolarity.

Environmentalists...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, culture, death, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberUnfinished Loves

...This passion to live
and love
fully
would grow with maturation,
not dissipate with age.

Such passion,
investment,
solidarity with Earth
and all Her beautiful,
yet suffering, Tribes
cannot...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, age, health, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Hope, If Nothing Else

...Should anyone hurt you with cruel words or deeds
And there is no one to lean on for comfort

I hope, if nothing else...
You seek refuge in my outstretched arms...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, desire, encouraging, hope, inspirational,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberGolden Year Wishes

...Darling,
I should like to do something more helpful
about this continuing feminization,
marginalization,
disparagement of full integrative value
for cooperatively-owned and managed
ecopolitical...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, destiny, gender, health, history,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberGood News With Bad News

...The Gospels share a negative understory,
thematic across all four.

However diverse these four voices may be
in describing and delineating Messianic love,
and political-economic priorities for p...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, bullying, culture, destiny, gospel,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberI Am Not His Property

...I wake up with a great startle.

My Obama EarthTribe CoOperative WinWin GlobalVillage Dream
was merely my hibernation.
I dreamed we share richly valued properties from healthy-wealthy African Eld...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, body, culture, dream, earth,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberAll About Taxes

...Conservative View of taxation:
A prehensile grab
from an authoritarian patriarchal government
to steal from my short-term stockpile
of self-aggrandizing cash.

Progressive View of taxation:
A ...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, culture, health, humor, jewish,
Form: Political Verse

A Dirge and a Doggerel

...You may as well put the shovel down
If you think this vivisepulture will be my end
I survived the suffocation of a small town
And I'll be damned if this is how I descend

Just another obsequious...
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Categories: self aggrandizing, angst, anxiety, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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