#egotism - Hello Poetry

A song A dance A wind to breathe life into the dead A sword A lance A ****** and parry to counter the charge of a lifeless beast The hunt The prize Ripping the flesh from a bygone era To build a home of thorns and thistles For a bridesmaid's fire Her words Her tongue The color of blood Holds vigil The writing on the wall of gods Still smolders Still consumes page after page Word for word, it says: "Check Variety this week for Emmy considerations"

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Dec 7, 2025

Dec 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM UTC

Carlo-C-Gomez

Year of the House of the Dragon

A song A dance A wind to breathe life into the dead A sword A lance A ****** and parry to counter the charge of a lifeless beast The hunt The prize Ripping the flesh from a bygone era To build a home of thorns and thistles For a bridesmaid's fire Her words Her tongue The color of blood Holds vigil The writing on the wall of gods Still smolders Still consumes page after page Word for word, it says: "Check Variety this week for Emmy considerations"

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nothing embarrassing have I ever done nothing stupid or silly under the sun never my own horn did I toot my perfection you can't dispute I've out lived everybody who could tell anyone

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Jan 27, 2021

Jan 27, 2021 at 1:25 PM UTC

james-study

The Perfect Way

nothing embarrassing have I ever done nothing stupid or silly under the sun never my own horn did I toot my perfection you can't dispute I've out lived everybody who could tell anyone

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All night All day You seem so in love with me All night All day You look so perfectly at me I keep seeing the future to be Between you and me But when alone You focus on your own Knowing well I'm still here You rather risk my disappear than changing into the same gear

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Feb 25, 2020

Feb 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM UTC

Liz

Am I here?

All night All day You seem so in love with me All night All day You look so perfectly at me I keep seeing the future to be Between you and me But when alone You focus on your own Knowing well I'm still here You rather risk my disappear than changing into the same gear

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When writing about oneself ceases to scratch that awful self-absorbed itch, and the heart realizes that writing about others and what they've done to us is the same itch masked in a fresh disguise, the trail of words leads away from "I" -- like breadcrumbs dropped at intervals for poetic feet to follow -- -- at last finding the untamed where one is more than a mouthpiece for sorrow or rage, for ignorant opinion or self-righteous argument -- where the horizons are bounded not by fear but imagination -- The irony: what one keeps thinking about, one keeps thinking about convinced that integrity depends on never letting go. Egotism fettered by a soul feels sorriest for itself.

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Aug 26, 2016

Aug 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC

misadventuresofcrow

That Awful Itch

When writing about oneself ceases to scratch that awful self-absorbed itch, and the heart realizes that writing about others and what they've done to us is the same itch masked in a fresh disguise, the trail of words leads away from "I" -- like breadcrumbs dropped at intervals for poetic feet to follow -- -- at last finding the untamed where one is more than a mouthpiece for sorrow or rage, for ignorant opinion or self-righteous argument -- where the horizons are bounded not by fear but imagination -- The irony: what one keeps thinking about, one keeps thinking about convinced that integrity depends on never letting go. Egotism fettered by a soul feels sorriest for itself.

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Hush all you voters, don’t say a word Or you’ll be sued by a great big **** He’s loud, obnoxious and has orange hair. You can hear him lying almost everywhere. He thinks he’s rich and a moral man But actually he’s just like the Ku Klux **** He has an endless supply of brainless rants Aimed at non-whites and the immigrants. He thinks it is time we let morality pass And started kicking some immigrant *** And if that immigrant’s mouth grows fat Trumpy gonna hit him with a baseball bat. And if that immigrant acts sad.. Trumpy gonna treat them like Islamabad. If Mexico gets ****** at all. Trumpy gonna build up a great big wall. And if the taxpayers say ‘No!’ Trumpy says he’ll bill it to Mexico. Trumpy says he can shoot people too And anything else he wants to do. Trumpy is counting on the Democrats To stay home election day and sit on their pratts. If the voters in this country don’t soon wise up. There won’t be any peace until Niagara dries up.

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Mar 16, 2016

Mar 16, 2016 at 10:51 PM UTC

brent-kincaid

HUSH LITTLE BABY (PARODY)

Hush all you voters, don’t say a word Or you’ll be sued by a great big **** He’s loud, obnoxious and has orange hair. You can hear him lying almost everywhere. He thinks he’s rich and a moral man But actually he’s just like the Ku Klux **** He has an endless supply of brainless rants Aimed at non-whites and the immigrants. He thinks it is time we let morality pass And started kicking some immigrant *** And if that immigrant’s mouth grows fat Trumpy gonna hit him with a baseball bat. And if that immigrant acts sad.. Trumpy gonna treat them like Islamabad. If Mexico gets ****** at all. Trumpy gonna build up a great big wall. And if the taxpayers say ‘No!’ Trumpy says he’ll bill it to Mexico. Trumpy says he can shoot people too And anything else he wants to do. Trumpy is counting on the Democrats To stay home election day and sit on their pratts. If the voters in this country don’t soon wise up. There won’t be any peace until Niagara dries up.

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Pleased to meet you. But you better be pleased to meet me! For I am the only one who is Me. And I’m the only one who counts, For I’m the one who’s experiencing all this: For me. Get it? Doesn’t matter if you are the US President Or Putin, Or anyone else “Important”. Nobody can affect That what I experience Is what I experience. Nobody else will go through Whatever I go though. Nobody else will die with me, Unless we happen to meet the same fate Together! You may be Royal Or Rich, Or All Powerful, But all that matters to me Is Me. Maybe I’m Mad in saying this. Perhaps the Whisky has taken hold. Better than being depressed I have to say. Euphoria is better than gloom. You too can be As crazy as me. Just free your mind From the daily grind. Never let those ******** Grind you down. Love yourself And Love Whatever there is To Love. Paul Butters

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Feb 3, 2016

Feb 3, 2016 at 5:54 PM UTC

paul-butters

Pleased to Meet You

Pleased to meet you. But you better be pleased to meet me! For I am the only one who is Me. And I’m the only one who counts, For I’m the one who’s experiencing all this: For me. Get it? Doesn’t matter if you are the US President Or Putin, Or anyone else “Important”. Nobody can affect That what I experience Is what I experience. Nobody else will go through Whatever I go though. Nobody else will die with me, Unless we happen to meet the same fate Together! You may be Royal Or Rich, Or All Powerful, But all that matters to me Is Me. Maybe I’m Mad in saying this. Perhaps the Whisky has taken hold. Better than being depressed I have to say. Euphoria is better than gloom. You too can be As crazy as me. Just free your mind From the daily grind. Never let those ******** Grind you down. Love yourself And Love Whatever there is To Love. Paul Butters

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Some people know how to surround themselves with shields of rhetoric appropriate to their time they find believing followers who take a while till they are undeceived and then grieve ever after in somber disillusion Some people know how to excel by crying 'wolf' when all around are only sheep easily frightened into trustful obligation Some people build their lives with shocking frankness on the patience of their fellow beings claim for themselves what they would not concede to others Some people!

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Mar 16, 2015

Mar 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM UTC

wwhoelbling

some people

Some people know how to surround themselves with shields of rhetoric appropriate to their time they find believing followers who take a while till they are undeceived and then grieve ever after in somber disillusion Some people know how to excel by crying 'wolf' when all around are only sheep easily frightened into trustful obligation Some people build their lives with shocking frankness on the patience of their fellow beings claim for themselves what they would not concede to others Some people!

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