Best Feigned Poems

The moon dances 
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns 
and thistles disguised
as fields of ferns.
Inhaling life, exhaling pain,
as the Universe unravels
a cosmic shadow that
follows hail storms
brewing in my mind. 

Whilst Vanilla butterfly...

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I wrote what I thought was a 'poem' some years ago,
but it lacked rhythm, rhyme, and had no smooth flow.
Its imagery was blurry, and it filled my heart with grief
to read the overdose of alliteration, so far beyond belief.

To be quite blunt, it was a...

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forced solitude
compulsory confinement
freedom from the sun

tall walls
large locks
glum guards

the soundless flow of time
yawning years
freedom of thoughtlesness

timed routines
in a timeless atmosphere
feigned freedom...

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Confinement -

I carry my prison with me

no bounds or bars or barriers

can equal the breadth of my bondage

its burning poison possesses marrow and mind

squeezing the emotion and energy

from every cell and sinew.



Truth

be told

it is a cell I walked into

with knowledge and bitter wisdom

and the lone...

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Listening in silent despair 
Ambivalence 
Numb as she walked
Bound by time was far from freedom 
   I wouldn't change her everything 
Despite my cries 
All is left behind me
All is gone and All is lies 
Nodding smiles in Jester's torture
Nothing escapes the fallen...

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ah, love, the lies thou speaketh now
tell tales upon thy character
of darkness hidden ’neath green eyes
and evil dripping from thy tongue
lay not beside me evermore
and proffer warmth of wanton flesh
which kens not truth of any sort
yet holds my soul as it were bound

from out this...

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Cheating death with a masquerade veneer,
    faking the failed attempt to hypnotize,
    the prisoner showed no pain as suture
    closed the deep knife wound bathed in crimson blood.
His eyes were closed, ebony thoughts within,
  ...

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Accismus feigned about God search
It’s our highest desire
Without His grace, we’re in the lurch
Far from home, we now tire

We thus pray, day and night
That we may see the light
Bestowed spherical sight

Bliss throbs ingrained
Accismus feigned

02-February-2022
Quietus ...

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bruised zeal bled
crumbling callous crest
hoisted hanker smote
cranky curves clothe
hanky panky puked
vying voluptuous views

porous pen peered
pulpy paranormal reared
felon feasting fear

sassy syllables etched
in punctured pest
whooshing pasts wet

haggard future feigned
dark drips craved.
     '20:03:10:16:22

Note: William Wadsworth...

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Feigned Love
     By Dane A. Smith-Johnsen

Escape is there.  Beyond the window, songs of nature call.
The stillness of the evening sounds the flicker’s serenade.
He sings, and sings, and sings again until his mate flitters near.
Then silence falls upon those two. ...

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