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Best Fooling Poems


Fooling Yourself
Try to sustain yourself on truth if you can,
but your noble aim will quickly come to naught.
Life is bitter, and so too are the actions you must take,
and they require skills that can't be taught.

Only the honest try to blind others, for they keep,
within their...

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Categories: fooling, betrayal, pain, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Fooling Us All
Dumbing us down
no wonder we don't know
unaware for so long
feeding 
on what's been eating us

"but the bait tastes so good!"
we say
drooling diabetes down lazy lips
entranced
by high definition devices
all the world's shiny entices

and then there's addictions
the medications 
vibrations
frequencies 
they're fingering Mother Earth's atmosphere to
seducing mankind 
with...

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Categories: fooling, confusion, fear, life, loss,
Form: Prose Poetry
Who Is Fooling Who
Once more
I hear those tales
Uttered with potent persuasion
In the quest for self-preservation
Half-truths and half lies
Lots of lows but yet no highs
I don’t know who to believe
I have my vote to give
Who is gonna receive?...

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© John Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fooling, political, truth, youth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Who's Fooling Who
Some birdies really...

Can be so unkind

All day pecking 

Only gripes and whines

It's not hot enough 

So she ups and flies

Down to Miami beach via South Carolina skies

She probably thinks... Oh Lord 

I’m a Dodo bird 

Maybe it's a secret lover, tell me, have you heard

Whoever...

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Categories: fooling, bird, life, love, relationship,
Form: Verse
Are You Fooling Yourself, Poet?
Sitting down with 
pen and paper in hand
       Let the machinery of 
your mind and spirit
       create a world in which 
you(and hopefully others) can 
  exsist in peace
   ...

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Categories: fooling, art, inspirational, life,
Form:
Fooling the Fool
Don't try me, I will see through,
If you cross that line, I will play the fool,
I'll make you believe you've got the upperhand,
I'll do it on purpose to see your true man,
If I think for a second your looking down on me,
I will study you...

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Categories: fooling, character,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Who's Fooling Who?
They say I'm pretty
but I don't see it, 
they say I'm beautiful
but I don't recognize it,

All I see
is the invisible scars
that no one knows about,

the hunger, 
the anger, 
the pain, 
the tears

that fills my eyes
uncontrollable, 
the marks they've
left behind...

Its there
hidden away
not visible to the naked...

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Categories: fooling, confusion, depression, introspection, life
Form:
Fooling Myself
Woke up this morning and thought you’d finally left my mind
Then I saw you coming through that door
And my blood started shaking again, inside

...
... ...

I’m no better than I was before
If anything, today I’m worse;
In deeper than the day before
Effected more than ever
By this unrequited...

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Categories: fooling, longing, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No-Fooling-Flowers
no-fooling-flowers
sprung up overnight,  giant
stalk ~ Jack’s tiny seeds

5/2/2022...

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Categories: fooling, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member April Fooling Around
April Fools is on the new horizon 
When the next time the sun rises 
There will be innocent fibbing and lying 
Is it a prank, a joke? 
Or just a forum for one to stand up to insult? 
It is a whole day dedicated to...

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Categories: fooling, emotions, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Only Fooling Myself
To think anything could ever change.
Only a fool to think you were anything but strange deranged.
Lucky NO BLESSED A MAN AM I to have her to turn to. 
To forgive my sin and help me get over you.
Be gone ...back to the darkness of your...

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Categories: fooling, anger, anxiety,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Who's Fooling Who
Who's Fooling Who?

Bloody murder, wild sex, torture and slime
Scammers and pushers and heinous crime
It's too much to bear
All the evil out there
Except for cable TV at prime time!

8/1/22...

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Categories: fooling, evil, fear, sad,
Form: Limerick
The Fooling Interlude
In black hot hue
Let the volcano spew

Everything changes
Every aggression is spent
Every narcissist disappears in himself
Mayhem in the bookshelf

Nothing is immutable
Neither space nor time
Nor sun nor moon
Let alone the focus on
Sovereignty and singularity
A monolithic spree

However omnipotence
It may exude
The presidency itself
Is an interlude
Within a boundary
Of brittle ego
With...

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Categories: fooling, change, conflict, confusion, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fooling Around
I have never fooled around with a married woman in my life,
and nobody knows that better than my own wife....

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Categories: fooling, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am the Master At Fooling You
I let you see who you want me to be.
You give me that look, which tells me I’m doing great.
You are fooled into sharing your deep secrets.
Because I look like that kind of listener.
I am not, but I want you to think I am.

You are...

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Categories: fooling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things