Short Selfish Poems

Short Selfish Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Selfish by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Selfish by length and keyword.


Selfish Desires

Feeling abandoned
Your enforced expectations
Got you entangled
In selfish desires to mold
Their existence to your own
Form: Tanka


Premium Member My Gift

My Gift

My gift to
You is
Gladly giving myself
In deepest love,
Forgoing my selfish ways
Totally surrendered to you
Form: Acrostic

Selfish Love

He who all to himself seeks Love
Does the wings of Love fetter
Love is like a young dove
She flourishes in space and nectar!

A Ship On Calm Waters

I don’t mean to sound selfish

But I often wonder if my name floats through your conversations

Like a ship on calm waters

Premium Member Weighing On Your Mind

So selfish is grief,
Believing only he may
Bring relief to quell,
Truly, but, there are others
Who shall help you much better.
Form: Tanka


Guilty

I'm here to confess
To spilling poisonous words
Of a selfish fool
When you needed silent care
To help you fight your nightmare
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Here Lies Todd

Here lies Todd a selfish man
Too stingy to lend a hand or give a dollar to an unfortunate
Where are the mourners?
Imagine that.
Form: Epigram

Selfish-Less-Ness

ME, ME, ME
I, I, I

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN
WHY, WHY, WHY

IF, IF, IF
MAYBE, TOO

NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, GOD
BUT, YOU, YOU, YOU
Form:

Quatrain

I’m selfish, greedy, heartless... lost?
I can’t make up my mind.
I’m torn between the man I want,
And the one I’d leave behind.
Form: Quatrain

Road Hogs

Some drivers are so selfish 
And some are arrogant with it 
It seems that when they buy a car
They think the road comes with it
Form:

Lost Soul

I am lost
But unafraid
I am broken
But uncontrolled

These things 
Tear me away from you
Maybe selfish,
But for the better.

Premium Member Popu-Larity

The Selfish Artist,
Who Never Created,
Took A Bluff And
Called It The
TRUTH!

Good Enough.

-Gray Squirrel 

07-11-2025

Seeing Is Believing

Keeper of my dreams
Thank you for the attention,
Only selfish wish.
Your belief is not expected,
Through actions it is instilled
Form: Tanka

Premium Member I Am Free

your selfish love had me bound; but when I fell for myself, I was ~free
 


















Alexis Y.
07-08-2021
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Behind the Pretty Faces

Behind the pretty faces
lies a soul that is deranged
that seeks nothing more but selfish fame
at the price of those whom it violates.
Form: Verse

Unspoken Intimacies

You cup my face, and ease my mind
You sway my hips and make me rhyme
You contradict my silent death
And dissolve my selfish pride

Trumpelstiltskin Weaves His Selfish Golden Lies

TRUMPELSTILTSKIN 
Weaves his selfish golden lies 
As he yet again connives 
To fool voters into electing him once more! ???????

Tanka - Selfish Desires

trees stand tall and strong
guardians of the earth's soul
providing us life
yet we cut them down with ease
for our own selfish desires
Form: Tanka

Honest Smiles

Truly warm and kind
The smiles that summon the sun
Unlike the selfish,
They need the spotlight to shine
Else, they say, it doesn't count
Form: Tanka

Seek

Seek you will find
 wait it will come 
want is selfish
 share in kindness
 live with love
 make one person happy
 with a smile on your face.
Form:

Transformed

Sin
Selfish, Hateful
Avoiding, Denying, Disliking
Worker, Teacher, Politician, Artist
Listening, Singing, Rejoicing
Heavenly, Redeeming
Love
Form: Diamante

Premium Member L'Etat C'Est Moi

Louis' neck in the guillotine
CEOs glean much from this scene
Selfish as ever
These kings mean and clever
Make their steely getaways clean
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Cruxknot

emotionally struck
active still
questioning questions
passionately ambivalent

ever now
dreaming thoughts
stopped start
selfish caring
© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Greedy to the end

It was the last rose.
Forbidden but I had to have it.
Clutched it with no regret.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Love

Empty, unfulfilled, selfish longings
live where love does not abide.
But where love is, there is peace,
and joy, and fulfillment deep inside.
Form: Rhyme

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