Best Deceptively Poems

deceptively black and white, like night and day
touching everyone yet never truly felt
colorless emotions lucent like crystal water
as ice fades into warmth of day, destined to melt

but a specter, a phantasm, a ghost am I
no more than a visitor in your dreams
unseen, a diminutive reflection...

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Prepackaged compliment,
  our badge of delight

Symbol and emblem,
—deceptively bright

A pandered acknowledgement,
—slap on the back

Others controlling,
  the acceptance we lack

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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bridled or footloose
priests, politicians, a shrew
keep a safe distance



~10/04/22
~Contest: Simply Senryu
~Sponsor: John lawless....

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