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Best Phoney Poems

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Mobile Phoney
Dedicated to all the people who either gaze into the phone or it is permanantly stuck to their ear

Life is the same game, remorse, regrets...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoney, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Snakes and Adders
T' was a shallow creeping envy,
Of a deviant design;
It slithered In quietly undetected,
To prey upon unsuspecting minds.

It built up false images and verses,
A phoney talent...

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Categories: phoney, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and...

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Categories: phoney, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Horse Life
In a horse life.We can play with a burlap feed
bag, an empty milk jug, or chew on the barn stall
door.Just to kill some time, or...

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Categories: phoney, horse, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sentimentality
Oh the humanity 
the humanity 

Oh spare me the grief 
thy fake tears 
woe is me, mentality 
syrupy behaviour 
Munchausen propensity 
it sticks between my...

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Categories: phoney, anti bullying, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Guise of a Clown
I have never liked your phoney guise as a clown
Whose silly painted smile should be turned upside down
I'd like to put red ants
Down your baggy...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoney, crazy,
Form: Limerick
They Cant See
They think because im a man that i wont shed tears
They think im strong inside, but they cant see what i hide.
Its partially my fault,...

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Categories: phoney, angst, me,
Form: Free verse
The Poignant Death of a Beautiful Dream
Her seemingly happy dream was killed  before it was born 
Flabbergasted she is by the shattering response you have shown
You believed the stalker and...

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Categories: phoney, i love you,
Form: Verse
Breaking Bonds
This is the last straw
The last cold slap in the face
The last hard swallow of total disgrace
I'm tearing down this whipping post
And disappearing from your...

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Categories: phoney, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Traditional Poetry and a New Age Poetry
Many a poet I know a fool
acting like they know-it-all
many a poet I know a tool
acting like "Mr Poet-all" 
unknowingly showing me 
their knowledge of...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoney, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Kiss
Im so far from who i thought i would be
Life seems to have got the best of me
Hopes have vanished once inspired by childhood dreams.
All...

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Categories: phoney, absence, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Recollections of a Reckless Youth
Warning: Mature themes, though at the time.             

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Categories: phoney, life,
Form: I do not know?
Hello Stranger
Hello there !
Black or white 
A mixture of yellow or green 
Blue eyes or thick lips 
May be Short or tall ,fat or slim 
A...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoney, africa, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
My Little Universe-Lexi's Personal Planet
MY LITTLE UNIVERSE—LEXI'S PERSONAL PLANET (Visual 1)

Penned in a poetry permissive as a
periwinkle
painting palette’s passive paths to
pain

Petty philosophy added to phobias
perils
perishing peace in selfish pedantic
prose

Passing...

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Categories: phoney, character, irony, poets, planet,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member If You Think You'Re the Only One
IF YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE…

   “A quiet and modest life,” says he in German, the most successful of them/us all, “brings...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoney, happiness, rights, success, women,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs