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Best Devil Is In The Details Poems


The Devil Is In the Details
You have to know he is near, you have to know he is around
Perhaps sensing it in your fear or a feeling of being bound
You never know what he will do or what other things he'll try
But he's out to destroy you because he wants...

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Categories: devil is in the details, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil Is In the Details
The Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous demons meant all Hell to perpetrate
We will not yield in panic! We will not abdicate!
The oaths...

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Categories: devil is in the details, grandchild,
Form: Monorhyme
The Devil Is In the Details
With every little smile
Hides a spectacular ploy
How this manipulative grown man
Turns into an angelic little boy

Every word carefully sourced
Constructed to bring him treasure
He will stick the knife in
Pretending to love in equal measure

Its hard to tell the mask
Even when it slips he never fails
Always something...

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Categories: devil is in the details, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

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The Devil is in the Details
It is in the details.

Between the things that seemed to matter but never really did,
and the things that you overlooked, 
that crawled quietly into your head and found a home in you.

It is in the details.

The shadows cast on the ruins of love as the...

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Categories: devil is in the details, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things