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Best False Witness Poems

Below are the all-time best False Witness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of false witness poems written by PoetrySoup members

Bearing False Witness

Pretending to be the pure an innocent,

          a viper the mask hides. 

In the absence of...

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Categories: false witness, evil, words,
Form: Verse

Last Grave On the Left

At peace, of life bereft
in the last grave on the left
where wilting weed and musty bloom
cloud the legend on the tomb.
Words in chiselled grey
bear false...

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Categories: false witness, allegory, death, history, loss,
Form: Verse

Prejudice

Beautiful ponder how you meander
in all constraints of unmeasurable tender
you are mine.
And I shall keep you close.

Panjandrum is not your domain
so bear no false witness...

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Categories: false witness, beauty, courage, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme

Rough Stream of Thought

***Disclaimer: This is not so much a poem, as an exercise in stream of consciousness. I just sort of wrote what I thought about. Sorry...

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Categories: false witness, life, psychological, truth, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Here, My Dear

Humble yesterday, your intimate memories are now
bearing false witness, following our demise. 
There are scattered whispers of a residential cloud 
nine, that I called my...

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Categories: false witness, analogy, break up, growth,
Form: Free verse

The 2 Commandments

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength. 

You shall...

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Categories: false witness, angel, bible, math, teacher,
Form: I do not know?

My Sin Is Great But God's Grace Is Greater

MY SIN IS GREAT BUT GOD'S GRACE IS GREATER

My sin is great but
God's grace is greater
Your sin is great but
God's grace is greater
I may have...

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Categories: false witness, community, engagement, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Pastoral

A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholy--Part I

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost...

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Categories: false witness, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Black Feathers Fly

(In the 17th c, many women were falsely accused of being witches. Many were banished, and more were burnt at the stake. Of course, none...

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Categories: false witness, abuse, allegory, bird, culture,
Form: Ballad

My Lord - the Candle of Hope Style

~My Lord~ 
(Candle of Hope) 


In 
Him can 
Have it all 
He's my Savior 
Always there ready 
Just to protect 
Defend me 
All the 
Time...

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Categories: false witness, blessing, faith, hope, love,
Form: Shape

Death Sentence Innocence

Roman capital punishment,
crucifixion morphed into 
another raised gravity depravity
Guillotine justice dropping down — 
off with the heads of the enemy!
Sleepy Hollow gangsters Herod-ing into town
Time...

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Categories: false witness, dark, death, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Jesus, Hold Me While I Cry

Where are the times, I use to know
Family and friends were never foes
So much leaves me to wonder why
Jesus, hold me while I cry

Lately, life...

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Categories: false witness, bible, christian, cry, depression,
Form: Rhyme

God Loves Me

No matter what you've done
 in the past
I was in Idolatry, greed, covetousness, love of money, 
I was Complaining, not loving God full of gluttony,...

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Categories: false witness, corruption, encouraging, engagement, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse

God's Ten Commandments

To get closer to God, we must attend Church and pray.
And there are Ten Commandments everybody must obey.
We must live the way that Jehovah wants...

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Categories: false witness, god, religion, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Letter To God

Dear God,                       ...

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Categories: false witness, bible,
Form: Free verse