Short Conceit Poems

Girls win by deceit;
Boys win by Conceit....

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hubris,
worst blindness,
adoring own monument,
clay tower upon sand,
conceit....

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Self-love,
Narcissism,
A desire to be wise;
Disguise egos  veiled in our
Conceit....

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He's perspicacious he thought
Logical science he taught
Absurdity filled his head
Though philosophies he read...

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reflecting the night light
conceit develops
until clouds veil moon

08-September-2021...

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Engish poet Andrew Marvell
passionate words the erotic did sell
In expansive metaphysical conceit
the reader so often did meet...

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Self-Love

Self-love breeds conceit
esteeming one-self to be
above another…

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 2, 2010

Poetic form:  Haiku....

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Arrogance annoys me
Attitudes of conceit
Answers are always right
Acting authoritive 
Affecting the others
Admirable their not
A need to be on top...

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May you be honed 
and strengthened 
by the humiliation
of occasional defeat.

Yet, in triumph,
may you shun urges
of chest-thumping
arrogance and conceit!...

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R-emain down-to-earth, 
B-e free of heart's hate, anger, 
P-ride and mind's conceit.








Topic: Birthday of Ruby B. Pacamara (March 12) 
Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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Though the faith 
he boasts about seems
unbreakable like iron,
it's iron cold, iron dead,

rusting away, 
corroded by bigotry 
and conceit, bloating 
his self-righteous head!...

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too much rain for the rivers to contain
streams spill out and bridges fail
every valley will flood

every swollen creek runs
swiftly into yards and fields
and city streets ripping away conceit...

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One just has to believe in oneself
It is not an ego problem
Nor is it one of conceit
One may never succeed
In life’s great challenge
Don’t put a curse
On yourself
Or you’ll
Fail.
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I slit my wrists and watch them bleed. ,
I feel no pain, just emptiness and conceit,
As i lay here, my blood spills onto the floor,
All the time i spent trying to love,
Flashes before me, and i fade away......

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Sam walks like an ox with his gunny-box,
Naughty children count the holes in his crocs.
Some say there are ten large spots,
Others say they're like gun-shots.
Sam thinks they are praising his oxen-walks.

23 June 2021...

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I coulda written that song, “Purple Rain.”
It didn’t take that big of a brain.
And I coulda written that song “Hotel California.”
But girl - I do wanna warn ya!
I’ve always been considered at least halfway insane....

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be mindful
human rights are human ways
that lead down

be careful
the words above always remain
wear no crown

trap the sin
destroy the lie of conceit
look within

don't consume all that you see
you will feel
wrong like fire...

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Of windowed light, what's let in
Summer's, may you blind.
As to what eyes' truth, behind
Numbly, coldly stares.

Stay wary, through butterfly's
Flame-speedy deceit;
In the form of this conceit
Everyone, in joy, fares....

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What ills you elicit with your mordacious tongue
shackled am I, while you trifle with my love.
You horde my affections with a cartridge of conceit
then loiter in self pity as I, wizened, exit with relief.



Written on 3/28/2017...

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Word-play ,apt and significant..
a moment of fancy ..or conceit?

Hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my penname ichthyschiro..

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may you, in cowardice,
    be bold and prevail,
         yet kind to those who
              struggle, stumble and fail;

may you be honed 
    by occasional defeat,
         yet, in triumph, shunning
              urges of conceit!...

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COMPLETE SORROW...

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Death To America
Miracle Man
4/19/2024

They protest with signs and take to the street,
Bent on making trouble and spreading deceit.
Give America death,
is on every breath,
too many people filled with hate and conceit.

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Shutting my senses 
Hermetically 
Permanently 
Decisively

for Vanity 
Negativity 
Conceit
Arrogance

Puffiness 
Imagination 
Witticism
Presumption

Crisis 
Judgement 
And while I'm doing this 
I open my senses for love

Raising my mind...

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Softly softly not to smear
Your ego’s creation
Which kid gloves pat
Your yes men collective
Blind to their subdued hero
Nurture your conceit.
How you wear your crown
On your cowards brow
Pale yet blameless.
A little man in a big world
I never want to live in again....

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