Best Manipulating Poems

POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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When smoke consumes clear horizons,
manipulating corridors of the mind,
beckoning imminent afflictions

poetry is the remedy.

A poet's first eternal love,
forming an authentic bond.
A tonic of silent expressions
creating...

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“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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When I think of poetry
I think of a child manipulating
his first steps, the wobbly nature
of his strides~that confused, meandering
toddle, and then trip and fall –...

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~Woody Wood From the Hood~

Deep, inside yourself, you walk a sour way of life,
Carving my name, on every tree with a hunting knife
You log in,...

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Let me be the first 
 to have the audacity to translate, 
This piece of mystery molded 
       ...

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Love is invisible
an undetectable secret weapon.
Some use it naturally
others for their advantage,
manipulating it like a weapon
intoxicating the vulnerable
with their twisted toxic methods.

Once mastered though
there is...

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Life greeted Death
with an epoch
from the depths of dusk
with a dawn,

the sun rose lucid
with it's soft spotted infant rose
now awake,
hanging heavily harnessed
in the steaming swaying...

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The sins of our fathers cast such long and unremorseful shadows
   Leaving in its quake such a painful sting as only God would...

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My own head screaming at me
every thought another fight
strangling my heart
he hid behind my tears
every possible negative thought
battling myself to do what is right
always felt...

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Emotional scars can cut deep,
manipulating how you feel.
And at night, when you try to sleep,
phantom tears suddenly turn real.

Everything seems so surreal,
when demons empower the...

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AUTUMN CAPRICE

With what ease he shifts
With such carefree abandon
Harlequin garb at death’s door
Time?    Elemental
And his whisperings
Oh, God, his whisperings!
Behemoth strides  ...

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Spiritual stagnation staggers senses
Insidious insanity of intermittent information 
Gruesome gorging of gossips
Nauseating nature of narcissistic news

Oppression of other opinions
Flouting false faithfulness freely

Transparent traitors of truth
Hypocritical...

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In 2028, the votes were tallied
and the winner announced.
The loser had been trounced
by a good woman of the people.

Soon, epaulets came into her office
and other...

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second terra,masters of the nether world,
black is their art,as crafty smoke curls
behind a screen,landscaping scenes,amazing,
chemical elements influence our being
projecting images,manipulating thoughts
misguided perceptions easily bought
subliminal messages,chaotic...

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