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Best Pretenders Poems

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Be Gone , Do Not Look Me In the Eyes
Be gone..
Do not look me in the eyes 

We were not belongers
But,Intruders 
who happened to trespass 
into each other's  lives 

We were no Romeo...

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Categories: pretenders, absence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Democracy
Oh, Democracy,* 
You, the most desirable bride among  
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout 
History  
In every part of the world, you...

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Categories: pretenders, people, philosophy, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pay No Attention To the Man Behind the Curtain
Blissfully ignorant and supine,
Lost in the economy line,
voters don’t have a clue
that liberty is through.
Apathy dictates all else is fine.
People keep telling me how foolish...

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Categories: pretenders, political, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Auction of Emotions
When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretenders, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Have To Shut Up
they lurk in corners, safe and dark
until they decide to growl and bark
then point an ugly old crooked finger
spittle drooling on the chin, they linger

arguing...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretenders, people,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maudlin Mary
Modeled by the     skilled and clumsy hands
of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness,
a penniless waif appears  ...

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Categories: pretenders, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Show Me Television
The era of catatonic self-destruction has risen yet again from boulder-blocked caves,
Whose cavernous stalactite incisors drip with the blood of thorny crowns,
Worn in punitive irony...

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Categories: pretenders, addiction, social, society,
Form: Free verse
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: pretenders, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Case You Missed It - Revisit
My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretenders, writing,
Form: Narrative
Crushed
In their eyes a disingenuous dream, pertinacious pestilence in their stream,
Solitudes sanctioned in their scheme, sacrificial surrenders in their scream…
Hearts contused crippled and crushed, of...

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Categories: pretenders, abuse, child abuse, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hot Spot
~I don't need, In case you haven't heard~

I don't need to strip for no crown, unless you desire large breast
Casarah, there's no need to be...

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Categories: pretenders, crazy, creation, dedication, desire,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Break Ranks and Run
Scrambling over each other, trying hard to be heard, interrupting, yelling out, being yourself.

We knew how to do this when we were two, and three,...

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Categories: pretenders, self,
Form: Free verse
And She Said Goodbye
And She said :

Be gone...Do not look me in the eyes

We were not belongers    but intruders
who happened to trespass into each other's...

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Categories: pretenders, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Democracy Ii
Oh, Democracy,* 
You, the most desirable bride among  
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout 
History  
In every part of the world, you...

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Categories: pretenders, philosophy, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Life Is An Option
Pretenders seem to care less                    ...

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Categories: pretenders, lifesmile, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs