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Best Impostor Poems

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Premium Member Ode To An Impostor
What smug pseudomorph 
inhabits my reflection,

adroitly mimicking my 
every manner and expression,

mercilessly mocking me 
with flawless simulation?
 
She is the great pretender;
a master counterfeiter;
a furtive...

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Categories: impostor, death, life, me, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Impostor
Impersonator
Misleading
Phony poets
Overplayed
Sneaky
Treacherous
Erroneous 
Ridiculous...

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Categories: impostor, identity, sick,
Form: Acrostic
Anorexia the Impostor
Sneaky
Deceitful
Calculating and cruel
It poses as your friend
Offering comfort 
Strength
A sense of achievement.

It isolates 
Jealously guarding the relationship
Until it infiltrates 
Every cell of your being
And claims...

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Categories: impostor, health, recovery from..., sad,
Form: Personification
The Impostor
A sham,he really is!
He is just a mirage,with acts,illusory.
Tiptoeing in thirst for fame.
He swindles the thoughts of many
and manipulates the notions of fellows.
He is an...

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Categories: impostor, identity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Autumn Is For Love
He was on my bench, so I asked, are you watching the ducks?
No, he said, I am watching the geese!
We both had a big laugh...

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Categories: impostor, autumn, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Black Molasses
"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth...

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Categories: impostor, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Robotic Floating
She is opaque, at best she is vague,
living in a state of robotic floating.
She wonders if she could borrow emotion
from those whose moods are overflowing.

She...

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Categories: impostor, angst, character, depression, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Skin Is a Veil
The skin you wear is a veil
a traitor, a liar, an impostor
below it you are nothing but red  meat
Humans be not so proud

The skin...

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Categories: impostor, discrimination, racism, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Concurring With Millay
Spring hangs
like a dripping woolen coat
from the pewter frame 
of a glowering sky.
 
Why is it that poets write of spring
as if it were made...

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Categories: impostor, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Easter Means To Me- Passion and Death of Christ
As modern Christians, we overlook
the meaning and purpose of Good Friday,
when Christ was crucified on a dreary day...
to bear our sins on His shoulder.


From the...

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Categories: impostor, death, love, passion, placesjesus,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Man In the Mask
The mask, with eyes brighter than the most brilliant star, 
Reflecting the sunshine & blue Ocean beyond, his eyes twinkle 
He smiles, I am dazzled,...

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Categories: impostor, abuse, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Dear Addiction
Dear Addiction,
You've always been a companion.
You were the shadow that walked with me.
I kept moving on,
even though
I didn't know 
that I was being... followed

I found...

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Categories: impostor, addiction, conflict, confusion, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cofee Or Tea
When I want a pick me up 
You are the chosen one
I love when you glide down 
When you arrive I'm in Utopia 
You give...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impostor, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet Destroyer Vs Gareth James - 2
Destroyer vs' Gareth # 2

Gareth oh Gareth.
How have you been?
I took a look at your last hit
We both know your not gonna win
Although you are...

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Categories: impostor, anger, anti bullying, fun,
Form: Free verse
Big Political Poem
Times and Protests

Times and protests are troubling
All of our problems started doubling
In minds Trumps seeds are planted
With him as President are disenchanter
White House water has stopped...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impostor, political, , memorial,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things