Short Self Interest Poems

Something done for the true interest of others having no self interest, purpose ends...

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The curse of public opinion,
feigned history of the truth

Generations of self interest, 
freedom—time abused

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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A life spent in pursuit of vain glory and only of self interest is one our Lord's trust has betrayed!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
      06 March 2017...

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The road of self-interest that politicians follow, leads the country and its people to their doom!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
          19 May 2016...

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I wonder
I wonder if
I wonder if there
I wonder f there is
I wonder if there is anything
I wonder if there is anything above
I wonder if there is anything above Self Interest...

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From the soul, comes logic and emotion
Rationale and objectivity, Passion and belief
It's flaws of ego, arrogance, and self interest
All are self-evident dimensions of the soul
To find ground in only one, hinders only yourself...

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Married to correctness,
divorced from the ideal

The truth becomes enigma,
veracity to steal

Facts bury in self interest,
the cheaters run and hide

All trysts a fated exercise
—philandering with lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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Self interest abandons us all
Politicians on the make
shades of muddied truth
flicker like worm casts 
Information over lorded,
lingering secret conversations
in dusty corridors
The consequences need no mentioning
The reasons I can no longer comprehend...

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tonight
the dark
comes with
skepticism, doubt, distrust.......

tonight
the pain
touches
incredulity and scoffing

tonight
the loneliness
comes for
an inclination to believe that we are motivated purely by self-interest


-September 06, 2019 Chattogram...

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Oh, empathy,

you divine child of love,

I implore Thee to help me sacrifice my

self-interest

on

the altar of common good

for

humanity's sake!*








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      27 March 2020

* With God's blessings let us unite to fight a common enemy!...

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Accepts leadership as headache
Unites all subjects to agonize
Turns workers into complaining robots
Holds all under him suppressed
Organizes team work for failure
Result oriented management a bluff
Invests in man power for self-interest
Tests set goals to check cheating
Yearns for mishaps to misappropriate...

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Oh, Empathy,

you divine child of love,

I implore Thee to help us sacrifice our

self-interest

on

the altar of common good

for

only in this way mankind could put aside

their differences and find solutions

for

the benefit of us all!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       26 April 2022...

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Idealism
versus
reality

In hope
that Quixote
prevails

Disappointed
again
reading the trends

Materiality
draining 
the grail

Peer pressure
determines
what happens

Not some
high minded
value or tome

Greediness trumps
what our virtue
holds dear

Self interest
hitting 
— closer to home

(Villanova University: January, 2024)
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Let it remain
ovarian pure. After strangulating
the truth,
for hypoxic euphoria.

Flies in your face
the dirt,
the denial, the terracota
of superposition of speech
hiding self-interest.

Blackened crozier
for wrinkeled crotch
drops the ashes of love
on unopened buds.

Weeping willow sways
in warm winds of prayers.
Strawberry in holes
nothing like bruise.


 
SATISH VERMA...

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Slam it hard,
yeah its your point I am talking about,
do not go round about,
identify the nail head,
hammer it till it turns red,
people have opaque minds,
clothed with rhino skins,
they hear little and understand even less,
mostly they do so when it is self interest,
rest of it they simply ignore,
whoever said that listening was an art was right,
however to get heard its a real fight....

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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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I could have earned a penny more
If I had the right papers
Would have paid tax of the little for sure
If I had the right papers
The man who pays us under the table
Works us for nothing because he is able

I could have believed in all this stuff
If they gave me papers
Every web glistens, every speech a bluff
Without the proper papers
Self interest is the only game here, friend
We are dragnetted as slaves, why pretend?...

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Motived by self interest and the chance to explore, 
walking with prerogative as though above the law, 
without any opposition an unstoppable force, 
there’s nothing irresistible in scavenging rewards, 
when suddenly there’s danger the hunger is no more,
invasions are incursions when there’s no will to endure  
prerogative evades when the fear knocks on the door
it opens to reveal a coward, oh how the mighty fall...

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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 consciousness, 
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness. 

Joy will master cruel 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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Husbandry of the earth
is not a monogamous issue
it cannot be a polygamous thing
polyandry, it is not at all
try monogamy war spring up
attempt polygamy, mistrust rises
bring polyandry, rivalry embitters
self-interest husbands the earth
and earth is spouse of jealous men
men who hold spears and arrows
and dig trenches of war
as their share of interest
looks threatened
Destiny of earth as spouse
is ashes and charcoal...

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Have you heard any body speak in foreign language,
and compared it to the growl of a tiger,
or even the bark of a dog,
both weigh the same,
they are unintelligible sounds,
the only difference is that,
you know it is the human,
who spake with self interest in full,
and the animal,
with his limited self interest,
and it is the self interest,
which makes you familiar,
with language,
so that it is not foreign any longer....

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

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

Strength will master self-contempt,
reduce to ash the all-consuming 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, 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.

Strength will master self-contempt,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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