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Hypocritical Piety

Pious passion with pearl like luster Panoply paint in deviant cluster Projecting devout sacred morals Wearing crowns of thorny laurels Preaching forth with self righteous scorn Scrawled on parchment fully worn Those pagan heathens they perceive Who don’t condone what they believe Perplexed by such pathetic woes Least the truth be so exposed A patchwork of divine confusion Unfounded values in perfusion Peripheral motives, hidden lies Unhallowed spirits in holy guise Hypocrites with tarnished goals Believing they’re the chosen souls

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Beata Agustin

Date: 4/18/2024 9:52:00 PM

Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 2/8/2016 1:23:00 PM

EPIC WRITE

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 10/4/2012 1:33:00 PM

Very powerfull write though I am unsure who the hypocrits are [perhaps all fanatics?] Your form is a suncategory of Rhyme called COUPLET because your rhyming end words are grouped in 2's you might concider putting a line break between every 2 lines. Wonderful use of meter for emphasis too! Light & Love

Debbie Guzzi
Date: 10/4/2012 1:35:00 PM

I see Chris's note ;) lines 2 & 4 must rhyme to be called a Quatrain..you rhyme lines 1&2, then 3&4, then 5&6 etc.