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Tag Archives: self-loathing
Morning Resolve
This morning I shall try to set my sights against the hypocrite that dwells inside me, giving pause to any who would praise my cause. I seek him out, this two-faced toad whose inner turmoil oft explodes in fits of … Continue reading
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Tagged hypocrisy, illusions, morning, resolutions, self-loathing, substance
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Wretched Thoughts: deibhidhe
Most days I don’t mind the mess that fills my fancy, doubtless in its mad mire growing grand plans my desires demand; but today, the turmoil seeks to wreck my poor reason’s speech and turn to tares the flowers where … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, daily poems, deibhidhe, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, self-doubt, self-loathing, turmoil
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Self-Damnation: a casbairdne
With words, my sentence fulfill: the weak willed soul seeks to fail, its too frail form doomed to fall before bringing home the grail. Too true; the trials and tests that beset the searcher last past the point where the … Continue reading
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Tagged casbairdne, daily poems, damnation, failure, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, self-loathing
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