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Bearing False Witness Poems

Ramblings

...Foothills

The physics
of metaphysics …
the part I like the best

Where symbols yearn
as planets turn
—new twigs to build the nest

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)




A Picture

Imager...

Categories: bearing false witness, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Almost Persuaded

...I am the one building my house upon the sand.
I am the one blind and leading the blind.
I am the one rich and exceedingly sorrowful.
I am the one making a vow I will not fulfill.
I am the one una...

Categories: bearing false witness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Bearing False Witness

...Bearing false witness, may or may not, condemn the accused

But would, unquestionably, condemn the soul of the accuser!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
     06 August 2020...

Categories: bearing false witness, abuse, truth,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Casting Shame

...By darkness I trolled
  in my oft-shedding skin

Hidden alleys I roamed
  for new victims at whim

But at last I must face
  the deception I’ve wrought

And repay every memory
  that fester...

Categories: bearing false witness, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Casting Shame

...By darkness I trolled
  in my oft-shedding skin

Hidden alleys I roamed
  for new victims at whim

But at last I must face
  the deception I’ve wrought

And repay every memory
  that fester...

Categories: bearing false witness, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Bearing False Witness

...Pretending to be the pure an innocent,

          a viper the mask hides. 

In the absence of those to defending themselves,

          the more vigorously it swears.

Those that show too cre...

Categories: bearing false witness, evil, words,
Form: Verse

A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I

...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...

Categories: bearing false witness, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Jesus, Hold Me While I Cry

...Where are the times, I use to know
Family and friends were never foes
So much leaves me to wonder why
Jesus, hold me while I cry

Lately, life has become so busy
The world so demanding, never e...

Categories: bearing false witness, bible, christian, cry, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Casting Shame

...By darkness I trolled,
in my oft-shedding skin

Hidden alleys I roamed,
for new victims at whim

But at last I must face
the deception I’ve wrought

And relive every memory,
that festers an...

Categories: bearing false witness, sin,
Form: Ballad

Here, My Dear

...Humble yesterday, your intimate memories are now
bearing false witness, following our demise. 
There are scattered whispers of a residential cloud 
nine, that I called my own after the storm. 
No...

Categories: bearing false witness, analogy, break up, growth,
Form: Free verse