Best Belies Poems

Love belies

Pricks deep into heart,
Hurts the tender emotions,
Is love mere word?
Belies the hope and the faith,
Languorous with first cold night !



August 25th, 2014
For contest 'Hope faith and love tanka' by Regina Riddle

Awarded 4th place...

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I know not what the tongues have twisted, 
I know not what the eyes have forseen, 
I know not what the ears have heard,
All is known what's nothing but an illusion.

When the words that fell became 
Your doors to hell
When the ears that swell with
The...

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‘Yesterday was always better’
   a convenience of the past

A place to store what got away
  those things that didn’t last

‘Tomorrow may be better again’
   as we hope against the tide

While the present slips away unseen
  —its gift false time...

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A briefcase full of sorrow…
  the hiding place of tears

One trade to end all others
   excuse to lie and steal

The papers hide the story
  all documents in vain

As grief belies the glory
  —of a life that deals in pain

(Villanova Pennsylvania:...

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