Best Facades Poems

As your heart breaks

        fake facades crumble into dust;

      but you’re ready to forgive past mistakes

        and reestablish trust.


(Rhyme)


06,10,2019
"Ready To Forgive"
Writing Challenge, June 2019, Crumbling Rhyme...

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Masques, ruses, and facades
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Be careful don't be fooled by smiles and facades
Of false interest and concern
The deepest wounds inflicted are by those most beloved
It's truly no way to live, too many place themselves beyond it
The brutality and betrayal of those centered in themselves
A daily shedding...

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Artifice-cultivation 
Cracking pitches, up at bat
Impactful, this journey to fame
Reacting, claims to my own name
Control, my poison cup

So let go as follows
untying the knot
Wading through crystal water
Unearthed root systems 
Free, complete...

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When men become idols
For coaching winning teams,
We shroud them in cloaks of integrity
Or so, at times, it seems

We erect facades of honor
Feeling that they can do no wrong
And they start to believe in this themselves
When the idolization goes on too long

When the facades start to...

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Oh what superficial facades we build
So featureless in this menagerie filled
Oppressing humanitarians and the like
Hysterically mocking honesty divine
Brutally molesting innocence in kind
Blindly we follow fools gold
Materials we tower and uphold
Savagely flouting righteousness athrust
Unappreciating sincerities must
And pouncing on words so true
What unhappiness we must imbue
Alas I...

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unsullied
              by preconceptions
              or prejudice
of atmospherics
again
&
again
         vibrant
    ...

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Some may say it is a facade,
a wall against reality,
away from disdainful eyes,
that are my judge and jury.

Is it hiding from myself
or concealing my shame?
Are the oaths fake
when we both know?

Nothing can deny the guilt
or the pain of being me,
it wasn't a choice I could...

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Decisions, decisions'
Oh, what will I wear today?
Should it be the blue shirt or Red?
Which tie goes well with the gray?

With so many options to select from.
Which one will it be?
How should I appear before you-
What should I let you see?

A variety of both colors and...

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Costumes we wear
Tell but a small tidbit
Of our story

Facial masks
Easily masquerading
Keeping our facade to ourselves

Enthusiasm however cannot be hidden
Generates optimism, inspires hope
To those who are ready to take off their masks and live...

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Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome,
bursts on the edges of the atmosphere.
Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones,
fore a chance never truly appears.
A velleity is made at her shooting tomb,
deities will not honor this wish I fear.
Her diary, her historical tome,
inferno makes disappear.
She was...

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My Grandmère and I have long, gossipy conversations,
where we fall into our own chatty, slumber party rhythms.

She’s met or knows everyone important, and people tell her things.

They DM her or whisper secrets of lives ordered but loveless,
of careers choked by excesses and indiscretions.

She gets stealthy,...

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I say the word and feign a Freudian slip
From between its legs duplicities drip
Often doubling as a quip and tasting chalky, just a bit
History will record the troubling truth
that I never existed if I don’t submit

I’ll submit this thing as if it’s a soliloquy
while being...

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