Tag: selfishness
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Seaing A Poem
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See the sky like a searolling with crescent wavescrash into the dawn of day.Aurora’s tide making the darkness flee.See the puffy islands of whitefloat like buoys ina no-wake zone emerge behind the curtains of night.See the winged fish swimmingthrough waters with easechasing one another in schools,excitement for life brimming.See the metal monsters – winged, roaring…
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Fasting in the Desert A Godly Poem About Contemplation and Selfishness
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Fasting in the Desert Strip yourself naked, unclothed of selfish desire. For it requires fuel to burn just as a raging fire. If all thoughts revolve around me and mine, how am I to hear the voice of God, how am I to feel the presence of the Divine? It’s by starving addictions that we…
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Walking On Air A Poem About Faith and Meaning in Life
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Walking on Air I once walked away from belief but only found air at my feet. All meaning and substance had ceased – pulled wherever passion blew me like the wind on a falling leaf. I thought I was seeking freedom; what I found was only more chains. To live with purpose and reason we…
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Christian Poem About Having An Inflated Ego and Being Selfish
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A Christian Poem About the Dangers of Being Selfish and Prideful “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Me, My, Mine” Ignorance is expressed as “me, my, mine”, ignoring in every facet of life the presence of the Divine. Covering your eyes doesn’t make the sun not…
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A Post-Modern Portrait – A Poem
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“But I like the inconveniences.” “We don’t,” said the Controller. “We prefer to do things comfortably.” “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,”…
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Reflections – A Poem About Character Flaws
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Reflections – A Poem About Character Flaws The extent of my weaknesses are revealed Beneath the weight of uncertainty. I am often a self-absorbed child, Believing that time and even the world itself should stop for me. My futile fury of feeble insecurity Is shocking and pries open my eyes To inner flaws I was blind…
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Selfish Poetry – Poem About Worldly Desires, Greed, and Being Self-Centered
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A poem on selfishness about the dangers of thinking worldly desires will satisfy you and of being self-centered, self-seeking, and greedy.
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