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Artifices Poems - Poems about Artifices


Premium Member Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves
...Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves, Finding in condemnation a kind of sacred and dignified sport. An inert paradigm, where blame is like a talisman That people wear proudly, bel......

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Categories: artifices, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Parables of My Soul
...In the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography. On the edge of the prec......

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Categories: artifices, 12th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Sunken Halo
...I. They burgeoned above my nostrils With buds that obscured my visions They walled my head with fences Towered above my five senses Distant from myself, things looked too low Until I drew clo......

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Categories: artifices, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wordscape Triptych 1
...WordScape Triptych #1 Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did; With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say; Tell......

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Categories: artifices, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Amusing Artifices
...Musician's notes can sound unearthly powers, Astounding hearers' eyes with blinding thunders. The painter's brush can stroke insightful hours, Surprising viewers' ears with deaf'ning wonders. Pre......

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Categories: artifices, art, muse, music, writing,
Form: Sonnet



Veterans Day
...Balance of time slights the recurring vigil Country's pride gleans the depleting residual Annual tears water the artifices above manicured ground Unextinguished pyre of tinseled youth still seethes '......

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Categories: artifices, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Quotidian Cruelty
...Standing before this refulgent pool of reflection Rhythm obviates the need for a new direction; Ocular atrocities; I view my deeds in serious light Cursed mortal, deigning his will in frantic flight.......

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Categories: artifices, faith, introspection, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Lofty Afterlife
...Lo! Death resides atop that lofty hill Expanse of Donn, the ruling god of death. With eponymic marble monoliths- Desideratum prodigality. Profligacy! A lifeless lavishness Which doesn’t make a......

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Categories: artifices, death
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Early In the Morning
...Early in the morning do you sometimes get up and hear everything from the dog's cough three yards down to the lone car on the freeway way crosstown? Early in the morning do you sometimes get ......

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Categories: artifices, allegory, introspection, philosophy, car,
Form: Free verse

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