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Self Deception Poems - Poems about Self Deception

New Sonnet 4 'Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold'

Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold
The limits of my Sarah's love for me,
But I realize that the rot and stink and mold
Are all within my mind, beneath my See.
There is no other person who can love
For me.  It is my duty and my joy.
It is the Truth that True Love is made

Categories: self deception, mental health, silly, true
Form: Sonnet

Thistle Tea

She brewed it slow,
the thistle steeped—
a greyish brown
in porcelain grace.

Each sip, a sting—
a bitter bloom,
but she smiled,
claiming peace.

At first, a wince,
then less, then none—
until the taste
was home enough.

No sugar added,
no honey balm,
just thorn and grass
and quiet aches.

“How did she bear?”
they often ask.
“It’s the way I like it,”
she often says.

But bitterness
never just begins—
it’s learned,
one sip a

Categories: self deception, anger, emotions, feelings, poems,
Form: Free verse

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

Categories: self deception, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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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

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

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

Categories: self deception, adventure, allegory, truth,
Form: Lyric

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'.

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!"

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.

Categories: self deception, faith, humorous, irony,
Form: Limerick

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

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

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

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

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