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Best Pretender Poems

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Premium Member The Pretender
He was so charming, but never a prince.
Sweet words he chose to mix and mince.
How could my mind have been so dense,
To let my heart...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretender, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretender, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretender, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member I Got Your Message
65 minutes reduced to 120 seconds

Bright lit room
White glossy tone with flowery curtains
Upon window's darkened vision

Your radiance emanated in celebratory gesture
As my eyes fell in...

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Categories: pretender, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To An Impostor
What smug pseudomorph 
inhabits my reflection,

adroitly mimicking my 
every manner and expression,

mercilessly mocking me 
with flawless simulation?
 
She is the great pretender;
a master counterfeiter;
a furtive...

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Categories: pretender, death, life, me, time,
Form: Rhyme



Clouded Mirror
The intricate and winding complexity of this aged device groans as its worn exterior strains.

Though delicate, it punctures through the malice of fools' logic, gripping...

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© Paul K K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretender, allegory, appreciation, beauty, emotions,
Form: Burlesque
My Heart Melted Like Butter
My broken heart melted like butter
when the heat of your love hit me.
My soal soared out of the gory gutter
where my ex pretender plunged me.

Lead...

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Categories: pretender, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Calm Winds Over the Sea
Adrift in the darkness, canvas sail gleams,
night sky aglow with satiny moonbeams.
Calm winds tread over a nonchalant sea
the world revolves in perfect harmony.

Inside a heart,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretender, lonely,
Form: Sonnet
The Underhanded
In the shadows moving with stealth
Preying on the weak his adrenalin to his health.
A vile slithering serpent, an agenda to bring harm
Beware the snare of...

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Categories: pretender, anti bullying, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: pretender, people,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Finding God
If tomorrow's sun should falter
and fail to light the morning sky;
if the stars their courses alter
and, erratic, collide and die;
if the moon, that fair pretender,
slips...

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Categories: pretender, dark, god, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boom Like a Tenor
Let me keep day dreaming
for I do my best thinking
when I'm not blinking
Like a child's toy my thoughts are spinning 
I float amongst the Stars
Big...

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Categories: pretender, dream, introspection, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Better Than Ever
10/27/19
"Better Than Ever"


Took a lot of tries
Opened up my eyes
And became wise

Thought
A lot
Took a shot
And got after what I sought
Fought against torment and rot
So oft
People...

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Categories: pretender, heart, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Deflective Deceptions Due
The wolves awake; beware the great deception.
The vampires' conjugate conception.
Witches gather with their brew,
Tyrants in their coup.
Surrender-
Due!
Pretender…
Cunning treasons thru,
Edict illusions will spew.
Ignominious of inception,
The wolves...

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Categories: pretender, conflict, identity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Small Words of Wisdom From the Tea-Time Traveler
The following words are of wisdom in prose
I tried to be careful in what words I chose
They are my own interpretations
With some small poetic alterations

When...

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Categories: pretender, allegory, allusion, analogy, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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