Best Conceit Poems

Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold them back

from accepting the candid truth;  white is not black

Like the slow moving current of a trickling stream

their thoughts...

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What is a dream 
if not reality's conceit?
What is reality 
if not a shadowy deceit?

The dream circle was unsealed 
when we were born
and dream-time filled our lives 
from night to early morn.

The circle grew ever wider 
in our youthful days of yore
with unbounded dreams of...

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Bryant’s Necropolis Conceit
 
Silent halls of death so cometh
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis supremeus now
A sepulchre awaits us all.

Dour darkness and shroud forever
Thanatopsis-Phantasmus
The spirit world so beckons us
We all shall so wither and fall.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, 
(January 15, 2015) (Double Dactyl)...

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hubris,
worst blindness,
adoring own monument,
clay tower upon sand,
conceit....

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Lolita’s Conceit
 
Obsession defined
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
An accursed passion
Love’s true abomination.

Literary allusion
Tintinnabulation
Sounding moral oblivion 
God’s sure condemnation.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...

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If you are someone who WON’T compromise values,
Then tell me my friend how this makes you a saint?
For Bible, the Holy Book, you claim to worship,
Proclaims to the faithful that we all have taint!

Humility, brother love, mark of a Christian,
If you’re sure you’re in the...

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Sam walks like an ox with his gunny-box,
Naughty children count the holes in his crocs.
Some say there are ten large spots,
Others say they're like gun-shots.
Sam thinks they are praising his oxen-walks.

23 June 2021...

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the joy of
         the unexpected-
a cryptic
           riddle
a surrealist 
           allusion
naive
yet lucid
with hint
     ...

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Oil and the conceit

I remember a country called Norway
it was not a rich country, but it was socially fair
and had employment for most people and those
who were not employed had a benefit 
that kept them afloat until a job came along.
Then oil came along it...

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The Rooster

He strutted ‘cross the barnyard tall and proud,
away from all the bustle of the crowd;
the other roosters in the yard felt cowed,
to him they meekly stepped aside and bowed.

Rhode Island Red to others he was known;
the yard’s top bird, to all he wanted shown.
One...

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
John Burroughs

bursts of anger once ruined me,
my hopes and dreams, fear and doubt stole,
leaving pain as deep as the sea,
blame the shadows shrouding my soul.

pride, the pleasure...

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I am a proud girl,
proud of achievements and work,
of family and country.
But, sometimes I lean
to arrogance-  to much pride
to accept a helping hand.

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October 28, 2018


Poetry/Choka/Pride
Copyright Protected, ID 1060-031-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym....

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A Pinch of Pride

                            A pinch of pride in the journey of life,
     ...

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Dawn

How to begin this day?
We all begin it in our own way.
Some frenetic, some memetic.

The worst way is to listen to
news.
So unconcerned about killings
of Christians and Jews.
But dedicated to do anything 
for ratings and some shillings.
All in the name of ratings winnings?

Listen to their voices,they think they...

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       In the mighty town of Stern,
       Non-cake makers, were thought of
       as lowlier than worms?

       If a pre-made cake was...

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