Best Lies Poems

Her piercing eyes burn through paper-thin lies,
igniting fear as flames erupt inside.
And reluctantly, she breaks down and cries,
trying to salvage what's left of her pride.

She believed you both had found your soulmate,
and thus, never thought either heart would stray.
And she struggles with bouts of love...

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The easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd

The sun melts on the canvas page
Creation explained in elapsed rage
Notions and pleas from dried paintbrushes
Strewn across the almost barren floor

One to the other...

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Silent Lies and Deception


In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue

The KGB shall set you free
Drowning you in the river Volga
The cold water keeping your lips tight
Whilst the silent ones spread their...

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Her ink has dried, her stories spun
On distant shores, her songs are sung


Atlantis must be beautiful in fall Carolyn,
Love always, jim

September, 2021...

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Buried here is the weather man J. P. Blithing
Forgot his brolly and got struck by lightning

In this vault is the flat coffin of J.J. Stowler
Fell into the path of a runaway steam roller 

In this grave lies the ashes of Jim Fortescue
Got drunk and passed...

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Stark truth can be unkind and hard to hear,
Not always the best choice for someone dear.
A child who is not blessed with pulchritude,
Need not be told, that would be very rude.
If you must lie a bit to make her smile
That little lie may well be...

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I saw a dragon flying overhead
In fascination watched him flap his wings
Then suddenly, he was a thoroughbred
Whose smokey breath came out in giant rings

How gracefully clouds play as they change shape
At times it seems they silently collide
Lost in imagination, I escape
Down in the turn we...

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Once upon a time.
Terrible things happened.
And nobody cared to hear.
The question is how far will you go?  
You know when the white rabbit 
comes to sing about mushrooms.
You have to wonder what's up.
But in my sleep, my dream state.
It is I who tell them...

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Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy of virgin soil and loose rock
where no more glows splattering...

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I'm so tired of the lies

I've heard... all of these stories before...
I say...it's time to show you the door...

You're so good at... telling your lies
but, I know how to read 'tween the lines
I'm saying...   God only knows
if anything you say's worth believing


Chorus
I'm so...

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Everyone seems to lie today, 
their empty words are made of clay.
They mold their oily words to please, 
to make us kneel and feel at ease.  

We sometimes lie because of fear,
we know the lies but we adhere,
and wear our lies like masks all...

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As We Stroll Along Lanes Of Truth, Lies Or Convenient Illusions

But if truth and light grace your soul
And a wisdom shields heart and mind,
You may in life hope for the best
As we stroll along lanes of truth, lies or convenient  illusions
And either we come...

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In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.

Through jungles thick with tangled green
where vines obscure what might be seen
it stalks...

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Someday this world will be
set free from misery
and then and only then
will all of mankind see
that far above the stars
and wars that leave their scars
lives One who sees the pain
and watches from afar,
who holds the precious key-
to the perfection meant for you and me

- Revelation...

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Our son constantly test his mom and me
Why the truth in life is so key
Can't he see all the trust he loses
In our ability to foresee
what his future could turn out to be
When he has no problem looking us in the eyes
To tell his despicable...

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