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Self Interest Poems - Poems about Self Interest

Premium Member A Monument to a Murdered Love
...A Monument to a Murdered Love The walks with my ghost on beautiful mornings were taken. On late afternoon evenings, the walk goes to the sad night. “Sad nights?” Asked my ghost.“ I think the har......

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Categories: self interest, fate, grave, life, light,
Form: Free verse
My Personal Dis-ease
...Why does doom feel so familiar While happiness seems so far away? How many times have you heard the supplications Asking for help, or Begging for mercy, from our suffering. In this god-forsaken ......

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Categories: self interest, city, society, technology,
Form: Free verse



No Deal
...You can’t make a deal with a Judas As tenured they govern on high Like the British who sought our indenture With graft and self-interest they lie You can’t play the game any longer Whe......

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Categories: self interest, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Tsunami of Corruption
... The ground trembles not with tectonic shift, but with the weight of undeclared wealth, the silent accretion in offshore accounts, a pressure building beneath the veneer of governance. Whisp......

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Categories: self interest, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Looking For Owls
... When nightfall dips in palest of gold I feel a sense of indignity, As owl's melody loses its eloquence Through the absence of a safe abode; Where quietude calls for avian coos The kind ......

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Categories: self interest, bird, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Beneath The Surface Of A Whim
...Wave a magic wand and poof! Try to put the genie back in the bottle Oops, too late…now everyone’s laughing More like heads shaking in disbelief Wear the rough edges of your plan down With the fi......

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Categories: self interest, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where is the Love?
...Where is the Love? Where? Maybe the love is a hidden substance. Or just the exceptional can experience the love? This is injustice. Where is tho God? Where is Him? I am here! – Said Satan. He......

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Categories: self interest, fate, i love you,
Form: Free verse
WE GO 2 WAR
...WE GO 2 WAR - Hughes/Maldonado, FUNK, 2008 -------------------------------------------- War is just decision made in comfort of palatial rooms fed by self-interest, ego, fear, fame, hatred, ......

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Categories: self interest, war,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member INFERNAL COMBUSTION AGAIN
...We go on burning fossil fuel thinking that nature we can fool. No lessons do we seem to learn as more and more carbon we burn. Despite seeing climate warming the see-o-two we’re still dumping. ......

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Categories: self interest, destiny, environment, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where is the Peace?
...Where is Peace? When will the world learn? When? When will the humanity learn? When? Blood ocean everywhere Blood, everywhere West and East East and West Don’t find peace and love Why? T......

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Categories: self interest, fate, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Digging or Gold
...When you have money the world stops to listen The content no matter gratuity bound The dollars indulgent as charlatans glisten Self-interest the mantra — with greed to compound (Septa R5 ......

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Categories: self interest, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Kindness Creed
...Kindness consists of love in action, not just feelings of warm fuzzies. It’s done not in self-interest, but is repaid in other ways. Staying selfless, not selfish, not transacting one-sidedly, ......

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Categories: self interest, conflict, courage, friendship, giving,
Form: Free verse
Family is a Promise
...Family is...a promise, Family is...a responsibility, When there is respect, love, Only then it has stability. Homes with lust for money, With no love, only self-interest. What better they ......

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Categories: self interest, family,
Form: Rhyme
Scandinavia
...Scandinavia  Finland is the whitest country in the world  I read and according to the article in  the Sunday paper, happy in their whiteness People in Scandinavia tend to be pale-faced Sweden ......

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Categories: self interest, absence, africa, art, beach,
Form: Blank verse
All in self are sunk
...Birds fruitless trees forsake, Swans and cranes leave dried lake, Courtesans scarce to wealth-less cling, Counsellors leave a corrupt king, Honey bees flee from lifeless flower, Beasts forsa......

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Categories: self interest, love, self, world,
Form: Free verse

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