Vanities Poems - Poems about Vanities

What drives the human heart to chase and grasp at fleeting high living lives of shallow praise? It’s a shame the lies they tell to carve a path cheating to fill the void disobeying to master a craft. But when the day is done and their name is called they leave empty-handed weighed down by thoughts with not even a car to keep them company on the long, lonely road away....

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VANITIES a pageant an  interaction in thedesired   direction distinguished dazzling. &  radiant elusive   & shifting overwhelming with a potential  shimmering cloud streaming with serene   light TRANSFORMATION peerless &monumental in    magnitude a kind   of desire ego  on conquest to diffuse   light a visible facade raw & exposed so original & anonymous but still  intimate &vulnerable aspiring enthusing the complicit to imperceptibly embellish & complicate the    posture ...

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All imported stuff, imported life in luxury. ostentatious life? none of that matters to me only my life matters......

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Like travellers, We cross this arid land Aiming at the city of rest. As we traverse the landscapes We may, of a truth, sully our feet With besetting dust of sin But we must from time to time Remember Calvary, the place of cleansing Where mercy flows immeasurably We go through marketplaces Let’s be pleased with divine supplies Lest we...

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I have observed this under the shadow of the sun, That the labour of mankind is futility. It is in vain that you should wake up at dawn and labour till the day is done; For things do not go swift for the righteous man, And a house that is built by the righteous ends in vain. But things go...

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'Vanity of vanity, all is vanity... and chasing after wind' evokes a mood of despair, precious few grins Ecclesiastes is read in most synagogues on Sukkoth though it might not win any congregants' votes Yet after chasing rainbows and riches throughout his life King...

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VISIONARY VANITIES  symbols   meritricious effects dedicated & intense   colouring so sensual  a longeur so ethereal brilliance a singleness of heart rejoicing   in the truth of beauty   symmetry of illusions     imitations  gilded  bold novel a tapestry     of mystery creative   human in celebrations     of     epic themes THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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VISUAL VANITIES release similarities   in a subdued influence extinguish    & look passively at preconceived meaning ot of the energy of motion such inner forces appeal in sensual language idioms of intense brilliance    prevailing in a    contemplative life claiming beauty    unabated THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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Time has no Vanity, time don't dye hair, don't disguise... just complies, Its role, and does not age... infinitely ethereal passes... !...

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beauty acclaimed symbols of love locked out palettes in meretricious effect dedicated to the sensual with intense ethereal brilliance singleness of heart rejoicing in the truth of beauty &symmetry in illusion of a gilded tapestry ...

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With One’s Life There are always choices to be made and certain realities to square within the confines, conflicts, and limitations of human existence. It is given and understood that human beings shall never be perfect, despite their religious overtures and genuflections to Almighty God. And, it is worth noting that human beings may fall pray, at...

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"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities" Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over amber gold wild bush honey running freely down the rough wood of tall sombre trees swooning over Black Boys hiding striped bush hornets in their...

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stop spreading its disease as you do what you please get down on your knees and let the king of kings in come worship the Lord for we are his people the flock that he shepherds love not the world neither anything that is in the world the lust of the flesh & the pride of life is not...

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Fine words it's true melodious metrical metaphors ...

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How life seems endless To him that doesn't want to enjoy less And like a driver that is too reckless He seeks after those things which are worthless Truly he loves to give his some pleasure But this he doesn't take time to measure How he searches for what he thinks to be treasusre Only to find it to be a...

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