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Belies Poems - Poems about Belies

Premium MemberToys

...I came upon a windup toy.
He danced a jig to bring me joy
because I was feeling low.
My name is Pinocchio. 
I'm no ordinary boy.

I told him I was made of wood,
He said that he understood.
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Categories: belies, children, dance, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGate of Undefined Infinity

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“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.”
~ Adi Da Samraj

In my fevered state, I sought the godforsaken
sounds of the gossamer strings of the harp.
It w...
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Categories: belies, dark, death, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberInflective thoughts'

...Over tech connected; drawn to a life infected'
The moot is now mute' bad is the fruit.)
War on lies.? Square root..'
Much belies.' I read divide..Divide.!
Up to the truths, full inversion.'
Hate...
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Categories: belies, allegory, death, depression, education,
Form: Rhyme

A Man

...A man's existence is a weighty mantle,
worn with a strength that belies the toll.
His heart: a labyrinth of calculations—
a maze of endless thought, where love is the goal.

His eyes, two lanter...
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Categories: belies, devotion, men,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThe Portal of an Oval Window

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I sit and stare beyond what's there, besides
"The oval window, a portal to another dimension".
It drags the moon's eclipse off the sun's circle
to show an ellipse with twin foci, in two dimensio...
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Categories: belies, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse



I C E : ODE TO SELF

...[Sponsor : Crystol Woods
Placed 5th in Contest]


 I C E : Ode to Self

few Hearts can fancy dress their
nakedness in icicle Presence
fewer minds will slip into cemetery’s dusk 
soul...
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Categories: belies, allusion, character, color, courage,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberWomb With a View

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I see the terror in their eyes…
of those who seek to paralyze
their lives screaming persistent cries
of sorrow and grief that belies
the turmoil and angst of disguise.

I see hunger, ...
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Categories: belies, god, hope, humanity, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWater

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Categories: belies, water,
Form: Other

Sedens Gyre

...No more though I pine, may I rip from breast and thought
This blind obedience to kind that claims all that is naught
What tranche belies and thus survives divided from the whole
Ere natures heart ...
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Categories: belies, anxiety, culture, farewell, leaving,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBounty of the Sea

...'Twas dawn and all the sky blazed red.
The tell-tales snapped like waving flags.
The keening wind was full of dread;
all surplus sails were stowed in bags.
 
Though somewhere on the restless mai...
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Categories: belies, adventure, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHamlet - Shakespeare theme

...Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Lord Polonius to Laertes - Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3

your magnitude of de...
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Categories: belies, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThis::illusion

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This may come unspoken
dismay is mostly taboo

This count feels endless
discount refills the queue

This trust I lost in God
distrust found in the pew

This stain runs too deep
disdain ...
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Categories: belies, life, perspective, word play,
Form: Monorhyme

Risk and Riot

...Cold choice, listen to the voice!
Waver filleth all!
He who suffers Sin annoys?
Blanching light, thy pall.

Hated minutes of each day!
Flickering in time!
Doubt belies all disarray!
Drop and ...
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Categories: belies, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberComfort in the Afterglow

...Comfort belies not upfront, where the bright glare blinds,
But in the glowing lingering embers of the afterglow.
In the afterburner of the karaoke sing-along song.
Humming the back-story concoctio...
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Categories: belies, eulogy, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

ONE WAY TICKET

...ONE WAY TICKET

Am I really swimming in grief
And no prospect of any relief
And this situation belies belief
It wasn’t so bad in recent days
But how such shifts can amaze
Tell me if it’s sunli...
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Categories: belies, deep, grief, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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