Short Self Importance Poems

All the love he missed
was freely available
and he never knew...

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My own desires
ribbon me in flowing streams
of self importance
...

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the cacophony 
of self-importance
has deadened our soul
making it insentient
to bliss humming
within our heart

31-January-2023...

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i am nothing but a ghost
fluidity and transparency
i am invisible at your whim
fluidity and transparency

from the corners of your self-importance i've gradually been dying
fluidity and transparency
i am nothing but a ghost
i am invisible at your whim...

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Outbreak of tuberculosis
Out and out ridiculousness
Outcomers who refuse inoculations
Outgrowth of a new pandemic
Outlandish selfishness and self-importance
Outrageous and intolerable
Outside of common sense
Outstandingly self-absorbed and neglectful...

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a tiny goddess to the moon, 
one word whispers, "Unworthy".
in response, the wind carries a new thought,
"Child of wisdom, child of night, no spirit, no soul, 
is more worthy, more ripe,
then those unsoiled by the cynical rights 
of arrogance, self-importance, & hindsight"...

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Impatience of the proud


The proud and the selfish always need to be first in line
They cannot wait for anyone their self- importance is so sublime
They even pray to God 'Oh Lord please help me to be patient and be kind
But, can you hurry it up please, I'm really out of time'!



John Derek Hamilton
February15,2016...

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  The calmer
     the more confident
  The more strident
     the more insecure

  The more natural the laugh
     the less the self-importance
  The harder the stare
     the less of him we can bear

  The more finger-pointing
     the more righteousness
  Hands relaxed at the sides
     reveal humble bona fides
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We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Liberation when, ego does perish 
Thought cessation ends futile indulgence 
We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Why as dreamed, so full of self importance 
Love alone real, glowing heart our parish
We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Liberation when, ego does perish 

07-March-2021...

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Audacious individuals lack sound judgment
Blow-hard opinions vastly inflates ego
Confidence is exceedingly overwhelming
Delusions of grandeur are clearly evident
Engaged in destructive selfish behavior
Factitious self-importance dilutes potential
Gratuitous toxic actions contaminate the collective consciousness
Hedonistic mindset hinders humanity...

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I asked two things recently,
who would have thought ?
I don't even know
if I was answered once, twice
or neither.
It may have been any.
It may be that the inevitable
inevitably passed,
or the chips fell just so
regardless of 
my petty self-importance.
I have not dared to acknowledge
because I probably had no right 
in the first place.

13 July 2018...

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Life is small
and simple. Even
The years shrink.
The man knows 
that his anomie 
comes from the truth. 
The world is a 
blank on which 
many impose comfort. 
The truth of the blankness 
sometimes leaks through. 

That leakage 
is the disease 
which shuts down 
the machinery of joy. 
The man knows how
the delusion of self importance 
is so much 
better than the truth....

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Progressively pending the day
The day, when his memory fades
The day when that old belly shirt shreds
As poetic minds cannot

Within the moan rhythmically intellect stands
He says farewell with self importance 
I say hello verse you end with expressions
To poetry a belly shirt never shreds
Within the shame of adolescence

Nor does a elegance of a aged love
With the heart of an adolescent becoming a lady
He stands with me eternally....

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Listen to poem:

it’s difficult to begin to comprehend
the concept of eternity
when life is bustling around us all 
arrogantly pressing and urgent
so full of self importance

sometimes
in rare moments of silence
when the whole world seems asleep
without warning time stops and hovers

i get a glimpse of what could be
the thread of karma
devoid of all illusion                 



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2020

posted on October 27, 2019...

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when inadequacy
comes knocking
who will shove it off the stoop?

when the self importance of this world
makes the air thick
who will slice it thin with humility?

who is that entity of selflessness
sneaking behind the walls,
crouching slowly?

will rays of discouragement,
worthlessness, and the like
burn the skin beyond repair?

I see sadness, but smiles abound.

Happy but hungry,
how can it be?

Faith, love, and you-
respectively....

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M-eek mind before God above 
A-ims to think of love; 
R-eply to the Father's call 
I-s modest and humble. 
V-ery lowly and meek mind 
I-s leaving the pride behind; 
C-onceit is not in sight, ego fades into the night. 

R-emain demure inside, 
A-ll day long till eventide; 
P-oliteness is far from gray, 
S-ixth of July Thursday. 
I-n the midst of arrogance, 
N-ever show self-importance; 
G-race comes to the kind, God is near to the meek mind....

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appointment rescheduled and so we wait 
there being no cause for agitation
each moment complete in stillness sedate

unendingly renews bliss elation
irrespective of outer circumstance
pristine aliveness our meditation 

egoless soul has no self-importance 
knowing all unfolds as is so ordained
orientation joyous acceptance 

Our vaporised self, thus pure and unstained
Assimilates wisdom in soul ingrained

09-August-2021...

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