Best Masks Poems

On buses, trains, crowds
they must be worn, but then we
always do, don’t we!...

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Blood masks the lea, the blasted loam
upon whose breasts soldiers came home.
The earth, herself, held each to chest
the mist of sky killed with each breath
as ruined green became their tomb.
 
Men strafed by shells and gassed by fume:
cast akimbo, blown to their doom
entrenched, barb fenced;...

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Darkness uttermost
Howl gobblins, gooks, grinch and ghost
Dripping touch of night

Blood like curdled light
Candle tears, white serpents hiss
Shadowing the mist

Hell has broken free
Behind the masked jubilee
Of death's silent screams

Rats, pumpkins, dead dreams
In dried fairytales of leaves
Mark, our prank deceives

The shuddering knife
Not again, jack ripped his heart
With...

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They never change
These vassals of venom
If only their cups could hold love
Instead of water
Then gardens could bloom in valleys and deserts
As the seeds of love traverse the oceans
Yet they chose to poison the wine
That spreads humanities love
Old men set in their ways
Lost, like fishermen at...

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No More Masks  (Nothing to do with the contest)


I had no idea, when we met in the park
that you'd draw a heart in the air
and I pulled on a rope, in having the hope
Of somehow drawing you near
But I couldn't talk, while trapped in...

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All songs a poet can sing,
All masks a poet can wear,
All seasons a poet can live,
And all wars a poet can fight.

Colorless is the mask of a poet.
Nationless is a true poet.
All borders, a true poet will cross; 
For mankind and the ecosystem, poets shall...

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words hurt,
so their tongue flow freely.
The only masks they wear,
is at Halloween.
Turning into teenagers,
they have learned the power of words.
Words can...

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To the Masks we Wear all Mortals beware
We all hide what we are from all sight
Why do we stay in fright?
Aren't we proud of what we are
Or do we fear who we are from afar
Do we wear our Masks, not only to hide
by to save...

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Oh, venerable mask on high!
You have replaced, my God, so do come nigh.

Of hand-sanitizers do I religiously sing.
No church, no God, I adore social distancing!

I will make wrong, all who wear no mask!
Label them as idiots or freaks ~is my latest task.

The government is my...

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Heaven's storms of fury see behind bland masks of deceit....

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Masks on the hill
masks in the gutter
used and wrinkled
new age garden
where everyone's beautiful

masks under the shell
shift them around
let the blind guess which one
cloaks the truth of this new age hell....

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Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream, only to give up after giving all to failures’ torturous theme.  They may wish their constant dream to unfold,...

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Fact Or Fool Who be You

I have seen
fools ranting 
what's up Pink Floyd
No thinkers, no education 
only poets with muse and frustration

The deniers of science
are committing massive crimes
jail should be their only pudding
sadly Covid takes many of them away
I have no sympathy for their ignorant...

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Autumn's, veil, misty,
Intrigue prowls-horror’s echo,
Halloween's chill creeps.

Masked-truth’s cleaver guise,
Secrets whisper ‘mongst shadows,
Fear stalks-night’s cruel jest....

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So many things for us to do today
Here’s a few, what do you say

Call an old friend 
And discuss remember whens

Send out some smiles
Watch them spread just like fire

Help someone keep living 
Without asking for a ribbon

Clean out a drawer 
Give the extra to the...

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