Jade Stone's :::Vanity:::
...Let he who is without vanity cast the first insult
Vain to me smacks of superficialities which
in the long run prove fragile and meaningless
You can be proud of your accomplishments
wit...
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Categories:
self regard, vanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
SELF-REGARD SYNDROME poetic sketch
...visual
diaries
conveying
a sense
of
performative
persona
introverted
&
private
together
in
a
convention
of
representations
imagined
& figurative
self-perceptions...
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Categories:
self regard, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Power of Words
...gods-book.com
The words we hear when others speak
describe a story of their own critique
When we hear the words they use to define
It has influences on the thoughts in our mind
These wo...
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Categories:
self regard, appreciation, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
the new world
...The New World
Why do we write a lovely poem
when they are not reflecting the world
brutal and stark as it is
there will be no Putin, Zelensky or Biden
in his rocking chair
reading a po...
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Categories:
self regard, 4th grade, adventure, birth,
Form: Free verse
Unconditional Selfregard
...Opportunities to rest
in unconditional self-regard
also present risks
of unmitigated narcissism.
While self-respect
is my prerequisite
for pursuing resonant win/win integrity's
full bodied ...
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Categories:
self regard, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Perspectives
...PERSPECTIVES
at every
turn
insistent
tender
encounters
more
prominent
refocussi
of
attention
to
proceed
repurposed
in
an enfilade
brilliant
&
intense
grandiloquence
of
sel...
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Categories:
self regard, poetry,
Form: Other
The Marketplace of Thought
...The Marketplace of Thought!
Don’t I love who I’m open to - would share soul with (somehow in words -
in poetry, revealing me)? Must I place worth on goods ‘vain’ hawk
to ...
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Categories:
self regard, perspective, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
In a Heartbeat
...
My heart thumped away, trembling
In the sigh of an autumn grace
Reflecting the moments, when love
Painted my doubts in sapphire laughter
Silencing each hesitation with joy
Poured o...
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Categories:
self regard, inspiration, love, marriage, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Circle of Love and Self-Regard
...CIRLCLE OF LOVE AND SELF-REGARD:
Here's now a real prevised time...
Some people only get you grimed,
Since you don't disclose your plans,
For them to know what's on your mind.
Even if you acce...
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Categories:
self regard, age, growing up, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bubble of Illusion
...When thoughts cease to flow ~
Where does ego go” prompt
by Unseen Seeker
Ego ego, wherefore art thou, ego
are you inert, in our dreams libido
...
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Categories:
self regard, allusion, feelings, how i
Form: Monorhyme
Dear Dean
...Dear Dean of TedTalk
about unconditional self-regard,
As you clearly know from experience,
overcoming disabling
disempowering changes
isn't so much about
stopping the habit
of comparing ones...
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Categories:
self regard, health, integrity, judgement, love,
Form: Political Verse
Choosing Obscurity
...Can any fonder love myself endure
Than self-regard bestowed upon a name,
Or for the cause of unrelenting fame
Become a thing unpleasant to inure
Myself, I think it wise, I must demure,
And s...
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Categories:
self regard, pride, self,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Oyster Girl
...We met over oysters and scallops in the French Quarter
of a mismatched ether.
She sent pictures - her in a mirror, beside a mirror,
partly hidden by a mirror, naked under glass
(I still have th...
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Categories:
self regard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Self Regard
...It would be a shame
to go on and on and then out
longing for grace
of some imagined historically significant life missed,
or simply more entertaining and health wealthy lives
laughingly not chos...
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Categories:
self regard, angst, anxiety, depression, destiny,
Form: Political Verse
First Things First
...self regard
brings
self respect,
pleasure
pride
simple bliss:
the touchstone
of contentment
laid bare...
...self..care...
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Categories:
self regard, health,
Form: Verse
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