Best Masques Poems

Masques, ruses, and facades
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Be careful don't be fooled by smiles and facades
Of false interest and concern
The deepest wounds inflicted are by those most beloved
It's truly no way to live, too many place themselves beyond it
The brutality and betrayal of those centered in themselves
A daily shedding...

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Tyranny wears no single face—
it dances in silk and iron,
in laughter rippling through marble halls,
in jeweled cups brimming with poison.

Here stand five shadows cloaked in power:
the Jade Empress who penned her conquests in ink of blood;
the Blood Countess who bathed in youth’s final heartbeat;
the Poison...

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Today
 is yesterday’s
tomorrow

Tomorrow
 now yesterday
past

The future
today
until borrowed

The past
  a present 
— dying gasp

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

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”You Can Become Dreamy In A Spa”
(by Rainbow ?? Promise)


Soft Erie-like musical strains  -
Guitars, flutes, banjos, violins 
Float in the Air with rhythmic flare.

With rhythmic flare you lay bare,
Soft lights, candle lit, flicker there,
As Erie-like strains drone on.

As Erie-like strains drone on 
Facial being...

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