Self Denial Poems | Examples

MESSAGE TO THE YOUTHS

If you want to go far in life
Reduce your circle
The people you share your dreams with
It's not about numbers, but loyalty 
Make a long table, helping others 
So you can be stable 
When ever you're not capable 
So you'll be able, to get where you want to be.


If you want to be
Liked by people 
Start pleasing people 
People pleasing is self denial 
No matter the quantity  of water
It can't fill up a basket 
Due to the  nature of a basket 
The wrong people will waste your efforts.

No firm tree without a root, 
No standard building without a foundation
Only God, family and true friends 
Knows how you survived 
All life threw at you
Stay focused. So you don't stay stuck, keep trying until you become successful.

Wasteland of Failure

The outside is where I belong
The inside so filmiar 
A constant stride to belong
To fit the mold of what a man should be
Weak I am cancered by self denial
When will it end for me
Alone I be
What a disappointment
A shaded comparison of where I started
I seek something
But back away
When it gets hard I blame all but me
I am the cause of no resolution in my dimise
It's hard to see past all the flaws when they seem to out weigh the successes 
Torn apart from it all
Just dwell in the peices of insecurities 
What have I become
Lost in the shallow of a hollow man
In a world built in expectations I fall flat everytime
What is the reason for this prison
It's all in the past  part of my present
When will this future become  bright
When all around this body is a dark mass
Haunted visions ghosts of remembrance
This is how my life develops 
Within the carnage of love and hate I collide
Still beaten and battered but whos throwing the punches 
Me  a lesser verison of myself
Where do I go
Where do a belong
In the wasteland of failure for all to flourish except me.

THE ECHO RETURNS NOT

Silent is the echo as pride shouts
   selfishness causing pouts...
      self-conceit triumphs over jealousy bouts 
         self-glory reigns with discontentment clouts
            self-reliance wavers upon attacking doubts
               self-pity maneuvers toward false humility-routes…

The echo returns not indeed...
   as self-sufficiency does arrogantly succeed
      self-exaltation declares me-I-my-mine creed
         self-inflicting pain midst guilt continues to breed
            self-denial actually hoists covetousness and greed
               self-love matters most, not recognizing God with His deed.

Faithfulness

Faithfulness has something to do with character
Character that goes beyond knowing yourself
Denying oneself to the border of humbling more
How you love the one you believe is dedication
Dedication more than self-esteem is transgression
More that chosen is faithfulness in nature
Human nature that is self-initiative and spiritual
Spiritual that is deep emotional and justifiable
Living in plain and simple way of godliness
Giving the utmost attention of self-denial
Carrying one's cross and follow God's will
In God's commandment is life's forevermore.

My Sweet Lord!

How does the hymner sing of God's measureless love through quadruplets-
Fine craftsman of fields, flowers, fountains of water, mountains, and sun-
Who practiced self-denial, till blood sweat, for the honor of thieves
apportioning second chances like sweet nectar while He came undone?

Why does the scribe pen his worship to the Universal Maker,
Compiling pages of effusive love notes for an unseen King?
Unobserved by open eyes but recognized by insightful hearts 
Heeding courtship calls from Christ, Saviour sweet, at the threshold tapping.

Where does the artist conceive sweet lines, hues that tell wondrous tales-
delicate replicas of the Creator, thoughts color their veins- 
as prismatic as rainbows post turbulence and wuthering days,
so silver linings laid on canvas sprinkle joy for hearts to sail?

When do dancers slip from guarded grace to ungirded ecstasy?
In the sweet echoes of a recent heartbeat or laughing babies,
bustling birdy melodies auguring spring's blessed revival?
I shall sharpen my grand jetés for Jesus' triumphant arrival.

Nowhere To Run

A prisoner 
of sentience
escape
self-denial

Incarcerated
deep inside
with voices
dark and vile

A prisoner
of every thought
his mind
a burning feast

The moments that
protected him
before
protect him least

A prisoner
of déjà vu
where now
and then conspire

His name convicted
to the flames
all dreams
— within the fire

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Selflessness Requited

The blissful ignorance of self-denial
as a means to self-awareness and inner meaning
denies the selfless bliss of
service and love for others.
To make less of self,
to cease selfish cravings and desires,
is more about striving to satisfy
the needs of others than to
blast away at what you think you need
to satisfy and satiate, your own inner selfish needs.
Self-denial is a dead-end fork
on the road to self-awareness.
For the blind cessation of self, if unrequited,
lets frustration break out 
into unresolved blights and sores
that you alone cannot heal.
The path to less self-awareness
lies in unselfish selflessness
to others.

Sacrifice 3

All beings
the sacrifice of self-denial
it is the fruit

For humans
a higher sacrifice
It's the sacrifice of the will.

This Man of Definition

Where has he gone
This illusion of me
Still hidden in a childs pain
Where has he gone this vision of me
Manifested in change
Lost in a creation of self denial
Where has he gone
Twisted in fear
Searching for inspiration
Where has he gone
This man of wonder and love
Locked away from times forgiveness
Where has he gone
This man of courage and grace
Slipping on the banana peals of rage
Where has he gone
This man of strength and sureness
Cast aside to the rock edges of love
Where has he gone
This reflection of me with a smile on my face
Broken to pieces at the feet of my insecurities
Where has he gone this man of definition.

Biblical Spiritual Characteristics

The Christian way is no easy task
God's call is a call to fully endure
many obstacles have to be overcome
but victory's assured for God is sure

A true Christian shows real godliness
having deep humility to put others first
denying one's self have no worldly want
only God fills one with spiritual thirst

This thirst clearly is heaven sent
producing eternal kingdom affection
to renounce the world's pleasures
so give the Lord full attention

God sends his spirit in one's heart
producing His character to bless
living holy lives to give Him glory
putting on our gifted godly dress

So live truly for God alone
display yourself to be holy true
brings pleasure to God our Lord
eternal always forever to do

('If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.')
- William Law.- (1686-1761) 'A serious call to a devout and holy life.'

Stanford Warren and Barren Lands

I have heard of a Stanford Warren, 
Who chose to live in lands barren,
Self submitting to predicament; 
It was simply not God’s Commandment.

Warren tags it Rich Self-Denial
And swears “Decision is final!”
By full choice “Rock of Gibraltar’
“You can’t me change from your altar!”

Was he after A Transformation:
Out testing some dropped information?
Former neighbor: multi-millionaire
Former best friend stinking billionaire 
He’d tried a fact-finding questionnaire
The First had slept in a dust bin,
The Second long punished his skin…

And to Fifty-Year-Old Warren
His surest bet: lands badly barren!

Self Denial

Had to deny myself today

So much of my life

I just got in God's way

I had to pay the price

For choosing my own will

And God let me go to have my fill

I took the fork in every road

Paying no mind to the heavy load

Instead of taking the narrow path

Assuming I wasn't subjected to an angry Gods wrath

So my life started miserably failing

I lost family and friends

Spent many a night wailing 

The downward spiral seemed to have no end at all

When I finally hit bottom

And was ready to end it all

Thats when Jesus reached out to break my fall

He told me all about my life

How I wandered so far away

And how he still walked beside me day by day.

He forgave me for everything

And said it was the reason he died

And as he washed my soul I could only cry

So I denied myself and gave it all to him

And as I swallowed my pride

I felt my new life begin

Now my days here are blessed

AS I walk  towards his glory

with my heart all cleansed with a brand new Story.

Human Promises Weakening

Every stomach should be bounteous with food.
Acceptance should be ingrained and subdued.
With terrorism demise, may Humanity prevail?
Embrace peace through embracing humanity tale.
To prevent skirmish, refrain from criticizing people.
A firmer grasp of one another's emphases feeble.

We are wholly identical, as the stars are plenty.
Every one of us is a word of God's adoration subtly.
The leading light sustains a quieting impact on stream.
A stirring fire saturated with affection haunt a dream.
There will be no conflicts and there will be harmony.
Faith in self-denial and the ascent of antagonism utterly

God fills us with serenity in a variety of ways.
His affection lights our nights and plugs our days.
Realizing my loved ones are fine and protected.
Thankfulness and kindness overflow in the blood.
A profound inner calm that no one can charter away.
Even mankind's hope is clung alive the deep way.

Written: March 25, 2022

My Parents Taught Me To Be

My parents brought me up to be
Self-aware,
Self-assured,
Self-motivated, 
So I could live with myself,
And choose friends who make me smile.



They did not bring me up to be
Self-centred,
Self-serving,
Self-promoting
So I could live in self denial,
And choose friends that are vile.

Instruments of Mercy

*Image of People of the Dawn by Pixabay.

Instruments of Mercy

Amidst the wailing whiplashed 'neath a moonlit plight,
Against the cowered beast of demons gnashing white,

Angst men in their temporary shanties walled bubbles,
Atheist fated them to wile their skill with steel shovels,

Apologist to the bitter end proves it's never supported,
Absolutist self-denial raw display ne'er to be thwarted,

Awarest who'd weathered the conviction of strong will,
Awkwardest fretted near sunk rocks, lost eyes wet still,

Aptest met their latest neighbor, old-timers now closer,
Antichrist organized bits of their faith sitting as a poser.

2022 January 22

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