Best Masking Poems


Double-Masking

The experts say to double-mask
For maximum protection,
But such advice will certainly
Be met with mass rejection.

Since time and time again, I see
When crowds are squashed together,
So many maskless faces,
Birds of such a foolish feather.

At least down in Australia
Where some parts are Covid-free,
The masklessness makes sense to most,
At least to some degree.

But in the clueless U.S.A.,
Still deep in Covid trouble,
The likelihood of masking’s
Very doubtful, much less double.
Form: Rhyme

Ambiguously Masking Words

.

                    Ambiguously 
                         yesss 
                        I have
              without compunction
                      hid wordz
                         from
              a small sum of soulz
                        cauzing
      difficulty deciphering their milieu
  
           I did hide even the flower'z
bursting forth before mine eyne each Spring 
                           yes
            the Spring flower's finding 
                        the glow
             deep within mine globes
     eager to please mine cerebral's eyne

                          yesss 
                       with ease
                         so did
                             i

Premium Member Masking the Problem

To ward off those germs from afar
I’m using a tatty old bra
It can’t be a task
To make a face mask
I’ll model it like a film star!

But sewing skills, none to be had -
My home made mask looks very bad
No way does it fit
I look a right tit
My husband won’t wear his, I’m glad!

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04/27/20
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Premium Member Masking the Problem

boris broke the rules
attending garden parties
whilst WE stayed at home

He covers his back
rules are now to be relaxed
voters are not fools!

I am cynical
of politicians actions
If the truth be told

01/20/21
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Masking the Pain

One day she was Jane
 Next day she was Mary
 Was she going insane?
 I found it quite scary

 She went to the therapist
 He treated her with hypnosis
 For a while she was fine
 And then she said her name was Caroline

 So she went back to the therapist
  So he could come up with another plan
 But something was amiss
 This time she called herself Ann!

 I had four women in one
 But there was a little girl inside
 Who was  trying to mask the pain
 of her childhood trauma
 But her tears she could not hide
                     ----
5/14/16
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Survival

I have a disguise 
It keeps me safe from lesions
They look at my mask

The mask is gilded
Few will ask what's underneath
They look at my shoes

My shoes they are plain
Noone knows where I have walked
They look at my eyes

My eyes they look back
Opaque, smeared and inconstant 
They ask me to speak

I open my mouth
And impart all my wisdom
They nod and depart

I drop my disguise
Sigh and collapse with relief 
Tomorrow can wait
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Super Duper

I saw a guy on the older side, he donned a mask
(All jokes aside) I do believe it worked for him'
On election days with glitz and spin, he soon found
That it would always magic away, all doom sayers
On most weak-days' also he didn't need a cape to
Escape, when reality menaced; right in his face.'
He'd just reveal his ace; in the hole, it seemed it
Would serve for any jail... Er I mean goal.!
It also helped when eating food, it cut on splutter
Which some think crude, I don't know if he's tried
It for dates ? Yet better late than never,  also a
Spare might be useful? should the constipation break'
Suddenly..' He had a thought; on a cure, for all others' 
Errant minds,  maybe lobotomy's for them one and all?
Perhaps more panicking? Would be the call? Like Barak
O' Harris was often saying, get with programme'
There can be no neighing.' Just keep trotting on like
This; and see'  its all in the scripting ( for the time to be) 
Afterwards It's going to change, You'll get bigger letters
Apart from that; its just the same; old same.'
Form: Rhyme

Masking the Monster

Mad,Macabre,
     dervish dancer,
do you think you have the answer?

Monster prancing 'cross the ceiling,
you go laughing,screaming
               squealing,
at the havoc you are wreaking,
can't you feel the life force leaking,

from the veins of unborn sons
who won't know what you have done?

           They will never see the ocean
      never lavish deep emotion,
on another soul so lonely,
ending this farce now will only,

heighten anguish in the others,
stop and contemplate your brothers.

Come down now and drink this potion,
you don't have the slightest notion,
how beguiling life can be..............

put on your mask and go and see.
Form: Couplet

The Masking of Loss

“THE MASKING OF LOSS”



we used to talk a lot. 
we collaborated our ideas 
into something that's had 
me hooked since. 
she's been in a new 
relationship for a while 
and it's clearly gone 
to her head. 
there hasn't been much 
time between the two but 
if you ever saw her, you'd 
know why she has a boy-
friend every few months. 
it's the damnedest thing 
though, she's losing her 
hair on top and it's making 
her forehead bigger. 
she's also getting wider at 
the hips and as it goes her 
butt is getting bigger too.
but it isn't a bigger that's 
good. 
don't get me wrong, all 
females are prepossessing 
but this just isn't working 
for her.
she's arrogant.
that is the ugliness of the
combination. 


she used to be decent and
now it's falling apart.
if she humbled herself into
submission then all of what
she's lost control of, would
fall into place.
females are affected by
everything that enters their 
lives. 
some use it for change, 
others use it to mask deeper 
desires.
I can only watch as the hair
recedes, as the hips get 
wider, as male after male 
rack up stories of sexual 
performance out of
insecurity. 
as her name gets whispered 
in the dark night of sexual 
filth, she still has to count 
the hair strands that fall 
and the number of jeans that 
don't fit.
no amount of sex can keep the
walls from closing in.
at the end, inside her
nights, she still has to look 
at the crack in her ceiling.



By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016

Masking Yourself

Path's cross
Things change

People aren't who
I thought they were

I met other people
I made friends

And you weren't who 
I thought you were

But I guess
I'm not who I was either

Path's cross
Things change
© Jen H.  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Pride Resides

I'm smiling
But I'll never tell
What makes me shine,
My heart to swell.
It is my secret
Mine alone
That makes me shine
My eyes, my soul.
For deep inside
I feel it rise
Words and art
My daily prize.
I close my eyes
So proud am I That in my soul
Pure joy resides
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Masking

I sometimes wonder
whether you are wearing 
a mask, that your alluring 
crimson blush and perfume 
is a subterfuge
made up to enamor me -
not crafted by a desire
to deceive but by a need
to conceal, that beneath
your beauty lies a truer self
you do not want
to reveal.

Perhaps you fear
that if seen under
the scrutiny of a clearer light,
your mask may fall apart 
and expose 
a deeper truth,
an essence of the sublime
which, in this world,
could overwhelm and blind,
thus choosing 
to adorn yourself 
with fragrant petals 
and a thorn.

Masking a Fool Pm

silence marks a fool a wise man - a closed mouth marks understanding


Proverbs 17-28....Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. (KJV)


11-17-19
Contest: Proverbial Monoku 2
Sponsor: Carol Connell
Form: Monoku

Until Then

The birds will sing when I wake,
The crowd will clap, the ground will quake. 
I’ll be heard, I’ll be seen, 
Touching the hearts of the unseen.
I’ll reach the stars, I’ll reach the moon, 
Leaving echoes in every room.
My words will ripple through the air,
A spark of hope, a whispered prayer.
I’ll build bridges where others fall,
I’ll light fires, like it’s my true call.
I’ll change the world, prove them wrong. 
Show them broken still means strong. 
Until then, I type away.
Alone in this dark place, I stay.
I’ll share my heart, but hide my face, 
Wrapped in silence and disgrace.
I’ll lose my mind, I’ll go insane, 
Chasing words, to ease the pain. 
Until then, I’ll step aside,
Watch the world pass me by.
I’ll wake this world, make them see, 
Until then, I’ll let them sleep.

9/29/2024
Form: Rhyme

Humanity

This is a contest entry for Law of Physics and Humanity. The topic I chose was quantum superposition. Look back into your own life, use choices with what outcomes that could've been. For example being stuck behind a slow driver to only see that the car ahead of them wrecked. Each possibility is a state and there are infinite ones of them. This is my poem about the probability of your life.



Vector spaces give us the direction, 
A part of the answer to your question, 
What is superposition in quantum you're asking, 
Plenty of types of vector for electron to proton masking, 
The masking of possible probability of infinite states, 
This is what Schrodinger's cat dictates, 
Infinite outcomes until finally observed, 
Taking the amount of measures then probability is preserved, 
Applied to life supplies what state you're in, 
Plus the probability of what you could have been.
Form: Rhyme

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