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Best Artifice Poems

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The Artifice of Desire.
In those unconscious moments
When midnight sweeps in on you
Surrounded by a sweet contempt
Offering the taste of cool dark water
With essences of serene moonlight
Desires fruit peaked...

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Categories: artifice, imagination, inspirational, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Crescent Waltz
She slants her shining, golden glance
Across desert, mountains, rivers, plants
Greets her rising, true romance
In the purpling, opposite skies

Her lunar love, her heart’s delight
Soars to ever...

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Categories: artifice, allegory, friendship, life, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Plastic Flowers
Sitting so pretty in a vase
You lift your deceitful faces to the world.
I may arrange you how I wish
And I may rejoice that your thorns...

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Categories: artifice, society, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth Room
Come with me my Brother,
to a secret place where Light and Shadow line the face with fear and grace,
leave sophmoric style, wry smile and sly...

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Categories: artifice, best friend, brother, bullying,
Form: Epic
A - Anarchy
A. Anarchy

Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate...

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Categories: artifice, america, art, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Turbidity
Turbidity

Turbidity’s
An artifice of
Being Human
One who is
So confused
So disordered
Or even one
With a Turbid
Imagination!

Being Turbid
Allows its Owner
To be or seem to be
In turmoil or
In degrees of
Real or...

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Categories: artifice, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Samsara In the 5th
"Samsara in the 5th"



The phenomenal world
is illusory, it calls for 
nothing of substance
romance is laid out
legs and hearts spread
open like a catalogue 
touched through the...

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Categories: artifice, desire, dream, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Romanticism
Broken Trust
Her chest cavity empty
Drained carelessly, caves
His brows smooth in relief
Hands wandering her body

Her insecurity replaced
by fraudulent worship
His muddy irises obscured
tears refusing to spill

This masked artifice
Unknowingly...

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Categories: artifice, first love, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Labor Pains of a New Era
The rational subject
Dances in duality
Stripped of earnings, personhood urging
Marked by contract, on paper
Life transforms into property
Belligerent because of tooth enamel-
That unexpected biological decay
Proves that mind...

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Categories: artifice, life, people, time,
Form: Free verse
THE WORLD OUTSIDE
THE WORLD OUTSIDE

Be inspired by nature in the raw
At its core, a real and living thing
It can bring life to all the senses
No defences, just...

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Categories: artifice, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Black Helicopters Overhead
i hope you don't mind 
if I wander in through your front door
and reset your clocks to headlight savings
life requires humor he said to the...

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Categories: artifice, howl, slam,
Form: Free verse
The River
River minnows

One of life’s sunshine days 
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artifice, beauty, love, nature,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
My love is light (a fairy kiss?)          
        ...

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Categories: artifice, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
River Minnows
One of lifes sunshine days 
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the warm...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artifice, beautiful, memory, light, summer,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Stock

			Stock

Lines derail trains made from stern stock
    shunting worsted words in wagons to and fro
cabins depleted by looters piled on dock
 ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artifice, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs