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Best Deception Poems

Below are the all-time best Deception poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of deception poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: deception, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: deception, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: deception, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: deception, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trust Me - I'M a Liar
Like a spider you drew me into your web
Cocooning me within your silver threads
Words, pretty words
I was totally taken in
Wrapping me up in silk ribbons,...

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Categories: deception, betrayal, hurt, life, trust,
Form: Free verse



Tears To Weep
When I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.

He...

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Categories: deception, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prejudice
I hate 
your brownness 
your whiteness, 
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness 
 
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...

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Categories: deception, character, prejudice,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deception, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free - POTD - A Collaboration With Silent One
Last POTD for the year - 31st Dec 2017

An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending...

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Categories: deception, analogy, freedom, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
      ...

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Categories: deception, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free - the Video - a Collab With the Silent One
An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending further from perception,
Free from judgemental realities of deception.

Through...

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Categories: deception, analogy, freedom, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Stranded In the Pools of Fate
on the threshold of tomorrow
through countless sighs 
i wait for you
stranded in the pools of fate
as the seconds fall grounded
like tears of all my yesterdays
in...

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Categories: deception, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I See You
I See You...

Wanderer, wanderer, lost in the haze
void of direction, succumb to the craze.
Give ear to my madness, so deftly designed;
deception de-jour: aimed to muddle...

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Categories: deception, confusion, corruption, emotions, hyperbole,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Bridge Over Silent Waters
A Bridge Over Silent Waters

Never judge your fellow man
Before seeking your own reflection
Not the one that shines in a glass mirror
Seek it in the eyes...

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Categories: deception, appreciation, art, deep, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: deception, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs