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Best Pretending Poems

Below are the all-time best Pretending poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pretending poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: pretending, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: pretending, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: pretending, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: pretending, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Joy Killing Poet
**Back smile/smile Back **

With your heads way up your :]ssa[: 
You will never accomplish the win
I got shots that will protect me from your rabid...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, adventure, deep, hate, irony,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: pretending, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter To My Future Self
Hey are you still breathing?
Are you still believing,
or is your heart seething?
Does life still have meaning?
How's the word weaving,
is the ink still bleeding?
Tell me, does...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letter from the Grave
Is the ship
still in its bottle..

Have your lips 
become dry,
tired from yearning.
Do you still wear 
my sage shirt.

Are you still crying,
are all those tears for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Love Letter To the West
I can't recall the day you left
 Empty words going west

~To The West Coast~

My love, my sweet love -- my soulmate
I will cherish our time,...

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Categories: pretending, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Behind the Smile
Just another sinking tear
In this river full of pain
Racing fast to nowhere
A world that's gone insane
Hope committed suicide
Before I had the chance
Forced to live without...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain...

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Categories: pretending, conflict, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: pretending, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Contest
(The Contest)

I once knew a gentle poet boy
Pretending to be the real McCoy
   He lost two in a row
   This is...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretending, abuse, betrayal, confusion, how
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs