Best Pretenders Poems
Below are the all-time best Pretenders poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pretenders poems written by PoetrySoup members
Be Gone , Do Not Look Me In the EyesBe 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
DemocracyOh, 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 CurtainBlissfully 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
Auction of EmotionsWhen 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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Categories:
pretenders, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
You Have To Shut Upthey 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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Categories:
pretenders, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Maudlin MaryModeled 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
Show Me TelevisionThe 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
The PretenderHe 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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Categories:
pretenders, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
In Case You Missed It - RevisitMy 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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Categories:
pretenders, writing,
Form:
Narrative
CrushedIn 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
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
Break Ranks and RunScrambling 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 GoodbyeAnd 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
Democracy IiOh, 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
Categories:
pretenders, lifesmile, drug,
Form:
Rhyme