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Best Deceiving Poems

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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: deceiving, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: deceiving, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silence Felled
Silence Felled

Lurking in dark corners
The swamp stirs in the night
As the deceiver rises
Begging to share his illusions might

Only behind the veil
Does he let his murky...

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Categories: deceiving, art, dark, evil, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woody Wouldn'T Cheat, Would He
Toy Story characters argued ~ then Jessie told Woody to buzz off

he'd been caught flirting with Bo Peep ~ uh oh, Woody, you're in trouble...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deceiving, betrayal, break up,
Form: Monoku
Burn
What powers held me in this tortured love
Shame and excitement danced around me
Grasped by the cunning illusions, deceiving
My void self image, coercing my
Vanities until I...

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Categories: deceiving, addiction, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Engelbert Effleflump For Dr Seuss Contest
Engelbert Effleflump put on his disguise
Climbed in his orcetector and rose in the skies

For his mum hated flying and must never know
That Engelbert’s job was...

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Categories: deceiving, fantasy, flying, kids, mum,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When Cities Yell
what grows from these petri dishes? 

when will these hives
with their metal monsters
their deceiving smiles
their artistic like visages 

stop breeding,

stop growing,

like a virus?

what of the...

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Categories: deceiving, abuse, creation, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: deceiving, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Can You Hear Me?
I never talk to you as much as I should
Just to say thank you for all of your gifts
I take for granted all that you’ve...

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Categories: deceiving, angst, faith, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exposing the Soul
The fallen sons slipped off Creation’s lens.
To taste the sting from our own tree and fruit.
Their giants quarried till no place to stand.
Before these day’s...

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Categories: deceiving, bible, christian, creation, faith,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Valentine Shmalentine
Oh, no, he best not patronize me on Valentines.
If I must dramatize appreciation, I shall agonize.

Each year, he thinks chocolates will rationalize
spending his time guarding...

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Categories: deceiving, emotions, silly, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Comes a Time
She was tragically wounded in her fragile heart
Betrayed by her lover, the one who tore it apart
with vile words and deeds he chose to impart
leaving...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deceiving, emotions,
Form: Monorhyme
For Momma
From a babe to a man, I needed your hand. Now I understand, it was part of God's 
ultimate plan. I was to be raised...

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Categories: deceiving, mothergod, me, child, god,
Form: Free verse
If I Die Young
If I die young would you buried me in place filled with flowers ?
If I die young would you stay by my side, holding me...

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Categories: deceiving, care, death, devotion, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Devil He Be a Wandering
The devil, he be a wandering,
Searching for a fool,
Someone easily persuaded,
To come under his rule.

Pride, deceit and unbelief,
Are the tools of his trade,
Planting seeds of...

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Categories: deceiving, faith, religion,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs