Short All Is Vanity Poems

The end of all is vanity,
damnation so accused
The mirror speaking falsely
—of promise purple hued

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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I Used to wax and wain, perigee and apogee

I used to flow harmoniously with the rest of humanity

so eclectic now I lack identity

To ebb and float sounds like serenity

but i tell you my friend it's complete insanity

to know for certain that all is vanity...

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Why must a man measure his success
in the amount of "stuff" he owns?
When at the end of his living days
he must leave it all with a groan?

Why must we have more than our neighbor?
There is no prize to win.
You will just spend your life never living
only to leave it all in the end....

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Bare me out
Why all these doubt
I dare you to 
Respect my integrity
For they say i am mad 
Because of poverty
But whither rich or poor 
All is vanity
I will shew my self wise 
Or else fools be my adversary
I will  seek eternity
I will always fight 
For my dignity
Why all these doubt
Bare me out
Humans bare me out...

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Happy the woman who is the first wife
Happy the son who is the first born
Happy the pupil who is the first in class
Happy the soldier who is the first in a pile
Happy the cow who is the first in a pond
Happy the demon who is the first in pardon
Happy the man who is unhappy
Happy or unhappy all is vanity
In this dangling climate-toxic earth...

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I
Waiting ...
Not on the LORD
But on a phone call
So, I turn to poetry
Led by Jesus & His Word
"All is vanity"

II
I know there's nothing new
Something Solomon knew
Wrote about in "Ecclesiastes"
All is vanity, under the sun
I seek heat under His Son
But the dead world will beckon
If not for wealth, then a wise wife
Will I make her my new idol?...

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Here he lies lifeless
He whose hands had many healed
though unsung by some

Now, we cheer him home
Down his homestead, we set him
Our selfless hero!

Pain is the pleasure 
of earthly patriotism...
Fame is for a time

Though the rose blossoms
on fields where good does not stay, 
it withers at dusk

Kindness lives briefer
Twilight comes after sunset
All is vanity!...

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Vanity!
Vanity!
Vanity!

All i see is vanity!
Wether i cease to breath
or i go on breathing
all there be is vanity!

Whether i choose to write
or i withhold my words
in my thought from my pen to book,
all there be is vanity.

Whether i choose to live 
or i embrace the golden path
all i see is vanity.
All there be is vanity.

Vain is you!
Vain is me!
Vain is the world we live
the deposition of God in us
is the point we hold.
For all is vanity....

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