Short Self Deception Poems

My heart's torn apart
Not by any, but by me,
The worst deceiver....

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A serpent with a lion's head
Believes himself a lion
He'll never raise his lowly tread
But kudos, kid, for tryin'....

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Altering her worldly reflection
Vanity clouding her perception
Sarah bathes in self deception

By Robb A. Kopp

For Constance La Frances contest: Reflection...

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When we find our convictions attacked,
we rely on a deck neatly stacked.
There’s a cool little bias
that will always supply us
with a handy alternative fact....

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without giving a part of oneself… 
one who states they are giving love…  
is suffering from an illusion… 
of self deception, not of love
for souls and love are one and the same.
...

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We all know that someday we will die.
When and how’s at the whim of a die.
But way deep in our heart
there's a minuscule part
that will mutter: “Who, moi?  No — not I!"...

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Told over and over,
the lie became true

As memory inverted,
the falsehood imbued

My cornerstone crumbling,
sticks piled with straw

A last self-deception
—the fantasy law

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2021)...

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Is the world cheating on me?
Is self-deception so thick that I cannot see?

Is the world beating on me?
Is suicide so slow that I cannot be free?

Or be me?

What am I?

A wave passing by?
Or a rock so grounded that it cannot try?
Or ask why?

What am I?...

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the world is empty, lifeless, grey
lost in it's amortal way
never find that for which we search
depression finds a place to firmly perch

falling from imperfect grace
grinning at our slowing pace
our inner demons laugh at our perception
based upon our self deception...

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Airs and Graces
On their faces
A gaze down the nose
Other silly shows

Illusions of grandeur
A grand amour
Of self deception
False Perception

Take a better look
We are the open book
Their airs and graces
Reflected on our faces.

Diana Dalton
2 Feb 2017...

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attention fixated on one object at a time 
a flaw of our differentiated perception
unless soul focus be void-centric
we indulge in self-deception

each form is breathed by God
thus seeing in all entities Him alone
moment by moment recalling this truth
our stuporous awareness we gently so hone ...

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Gliding past the mirror, the visage of sophisticated sensuality, 
tall with head turning legs that stretch to heaven, dark and tan,
little black dress, tastefully shrink wrapped about hips and breasts,
stiletto heals, black patent, defining calves and thighs with each step,
but her smiling red lips can't hide the tear in her questioning eyes, “Who am I?”



06/08/2018...

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INFATUATION, DECEPTION

INFATUATION, SELF DECEPTION
WORLD OF LIES CROWDING MY SOUL
THINKING IT WAS REAL
THINKING IT WAS TRUE

BUT IT WAS JUST A
SELF DEPRECIATION A 
MAD INFATUATION

I THOUGH IT WAS LOVE
FOUND OUT THE TRUTH
YET ANOTHER INFATUATION
HITS HARD JUST LIKE
AN ADDICTION

UNHEALTHY FOR MY HEART
WEAK TO MY SOUL
CLINGING ON IN MY MIND
UNSAFE AND UNKIND








©GDC2014...

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The barren feed the barren,
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond their realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren,
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond their realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The mask we wear, belied by hidden fears,
self-deception, feeling not emotion,
thereby prolonging torture that pain spears.
Plunging headlong into each sensation,
nonchalant eye grants us liberation.
Unfettered presence, thus free and unbound,
transmutes dark dungeons into holy ground,
ecstatic with bliss, moment to moment,
sensing within heart, loving divine sound,
form ignited, countenance radiant.

22-March-2021...

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what we expect we get it see,
think thin yes that's bloody me,
all about self perception,.
self deception ...
con the mind the body follows:)

what no plurry fee!

Don Johnson 20-july-11
I'm  using the theory that we get what we fear and expect especially extra weight, 
(dumbo subconcious thinks it wants fat hey)  Look in the mirror see the younger ye, see
the mirror look just like thee. and then hunger for it, obsession:)...

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The barren feed the barren
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, struck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond the realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of honour once again....

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You believe your lie today and 

    and tomorrow you still believe your lie,

as being your plain truth, then you are embrace

   with the deception of your own creation.

Be not one who lives in the realm of self-deception

    only to realize that your truth is not the 

truth of life.  Nevertheless, you will be one who

   will walk alone and decieve alone and expire from

this life alone.  Oh what a tragedy to exist within....

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Be for me, no more 
than you have hidden away 
in self-deception. Today, 
tomorrow, into next week, 
make yourself real for me; 
toss the curried bullcrap out 
with that bouquet of empty words 
you're so clever with. Those tapping feet 
need to settle down in an honest rhythm 
of sound that catches my attention, 
that makes me want to press 
my cheek to yours, in simple friendship. 
All the wrong things are at the top 
of your list....

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no good deed goes unpunished
no bad deed unrewarded
just deciding which is what
the altruistic and the sordid

depends upon the angle of view
what an act is deemed to better
and who it might be bettered to
gain advantage, and who's the debtor

gray is life's chromatic scale
certainty colored by present perception
think our discernment to no avail
that may be our own self-deception

clarity is the provenance of youth
blurrier is wizened maturity's truth

© Goode Guy 2012-11-14...

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