They Wore Sorrow
Two diverse paths lay,
The rough path tell the tales
Tales of what lays ahead
The smooth path tells no tales
Both lead to same destination
Our choice stared at us
The heart seeks honour
Rough path they thread
Their desire, they must not faint
The cheers of their leader,
Echoes through the lonely path
The smooth path, leader thread,
In honor, loyalty stand.
“Aye, my enemy
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Categories:
selfishness, conflict, corruption, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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 harvest was good.”
Said my ghost. Yes, my ghost words always mirror the truth.
His words, phrases, speeches, biography of life, the Titan.
He is the
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Categories:
selfishness, fate, grave, life, light,
Form: Free verse
selfishness Looked out for Herself
Selfishness looked out for herself
She was thrilled to do what she wanted
When she wanted
In the way she wanted
Without censorship, suggestions or having to please anyone else
Selfishness did not buy into funerals, graduations or weddings
She spent no time with her family.
She did not care to make a friend.
She never felt lonely or sad.
She loved her alone
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Categories:
selfishness, life,
Form: Personification
Selfly Guh-Selfishness
Selfly Guh-Selfishness
I Like Things That Are Nuts.
Oh, That's Different.
Self-Referential Self-Centerdness
Self Guggldy-Guggg-Gugg-Undone...
Get Over Yourself...
Get It? NUTS!?! Ha-ha?
Honestly, Can Anyone Else Talk?
Don't Eat The Shell.
Huh?
-Gray Squirrel
05-16-2025
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Categories:
selfishness, life,
Form: Free verse
I'll Sleep in the Sky
Oh abundant child without a care or whim,
Am I broken and beaten because of my sin,
Am I lonely and sickly because of mistakes,
Is your refusal to help me because I'm a fake,
If you close your heart to me this is no lie,
I will trust in God and sleep in the sky,
And you Mrs. Perfect what
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Categories:
selfishness, angel, anger, angst, art,
Form: Rhyme
Selfishness
A grasping tight hand,
World shrinks to a single "mine,"
Empty when alone.
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Categories:
selfishness, character, self,
Form: Haiku
New Sonnet 3 Whene'er I Find Myself Alone and Ponder
Whene'er I find myself alone and ponder,
My life grown small around me clamps my heart,
And fiercely beats the rain, fiercer the thunder,
I cannot save myself by any art...
And when within this prison of my mind,
I know that nothing good can ever be,
Where no ray of the Sun I ever find
It seems sometimes, I sudden, think
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Categories:
selfishness, depression, joy, loneliness, love,
Form: Sonnet
Pride
Do not wear pride like a necklace
For God detests pride and arrogance
Pride does not go unpunished
Pride leads to disgrace
Humility is rewarded with wisdom
While pride begets destruction
Cause it takes credit for God’s accomplishments
And covets God’s glory
Pride demeans others
It arrogates sense of Almightiness
To a mere mortal
Pride stifles growth of other
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Categories:
selfishness, abuse, christian, corruption, evil,
Form: Free verse
Krabs Cash Craze
Money, money, money
Give me a penny,
I’ll stash it, I’ll hide it,
And guard it like treasure.
In his belly, a hunger
That can’t be fulfilled,
For gold and for riches
His greed is unmatched.
He pockets the profits,
The worker gives his all,
But when it’s time to pay,
The boss is long gone.
No thought for the world,
Just riches to keep,
He’ll chase every dollar
And
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Categories:
selfishness, crazy, evil, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Love's Oblivion
She wove a tapestry of tender grace,
A silken thread of affection's embrace.
He, a tempest, a tempestuous soul,
Cast shadows deep, beyond control.
She, a beacon, radiant and bright,
Bathed him in the aureate light
Of her devotion, pure and true,
But he, oblivious, sailed through.
He, an incubus, a fleeting guise,
Lured her with illusory skies.
She, with an albatross of adoration,
Yearned for
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Categories:
selfishness, anger, angst, betrayal, break
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Wrong Landlord
On one’s ability, nothing wrong to confide
needless gratification, glory hunting is wide
chances of victory from a one-man army divide.
Resilience that is bloated will be swallowed by the tide
seeking attention is their life, on a horse it rides
to condescend and to look down also riding side by side.
High-level difficulty to follow a guide
adopting modesty and quiet,
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Categories:
selfishness, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Win's Feathers
An impotent soul wrapped with a police seal
Married a merchant and stopped bearing Jill
everyone must care, that’s how it feels
traps of superiority placed like banana pills
mutual respect losing every match five-to-nil
demanding the showering of majestic praises so unreal
that are schemed and manufactured from a rusted mill
to cover a void that can never be filled.
Confidence owns
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Categories:
selfishness, pride,
Form: Rhyme
If Crooks could vote
If gazelles on the savannah could vote
They'd vote for muzzled tigers, then they would gloat.
If wolves outvoted sheep, let's think what stops:
No more wool sweaters, no more lamb chops.
If crooks in the cities could legislate
There would never be a court date
They'd be out of jail while the cop like a clerk
Is still filling out the
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Categories:
selfishness, africa, history, humanity, leadership,
Form: Lyric
He who has knowledge And Won't Freely Share It Is Called What
He sits in silence, his words held tight,
A well of wisdom, sealed from sight.
His lips are firm, his eyes withdrawn,
As night falls silent before the dawn.
The world is thirsty, tongues run dry,
Yet he keeps still, lets truth pass by.
A lantern dimmed, a book unread,
His world's are lost in the wind instead.
He knows the path but
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Categories:
selfishness, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
History Is Impartial
The real history knows how
To pick great men/women who know how
To serve, help, protect, defend and lead.
Great leader fights all the way
With his life, and never finds the easiest way.
Great leader fights against racism, corruption, greed
Selfishness, and protects his people at any cost.
Great men/ women stand their ground,
For everyone, regardless of the background.
History is an
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Categories:
selfishness, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, history,
Form: Rhyme
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