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Best Pretends Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: pretends, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: pretends,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Filling Up On Empty
Some things that look fulfilling
Can cast a woeful spell
Glittery that looks like heaven,
can often turn out to be hell.

All the wanting leads to weeping,
He can't...

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Categories: pretends, desire, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: pretends, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sweet Tooth
When I have a bag of candy
I have oh so many friends 
They all come gather around me
But it don’t last, it always ends

I guess...

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Categories: pretends, 3rd grade, angst, class,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Trust No One
~My Heart~

•      One last night before the grave
•	Thousands of thoughts of you I save
•	-Every night, I experience the same dream
•	That...

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Categories: pretends, body, confusion, corruption, courage,
Form: Epic
In His Bed Part 2
continued.......

In his bed she hears him approach with long strides.
The covers are over her head as she pretends to hide.
With one swift yank she is...

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Categories: pretends, passionlonging, body, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eddy
I try to see 
back before 
to who Eddy once was
just barely before when
the bending began
Eddy was after all
a cute child 
wide eyed
hugging kissing and...

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Categories: pretends, angst, cute,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Winter Blues
The Winter Blues
Robert J. Lindley 

Winter blew in with a scant little whimper 
Fall skulked away with hardly a peep 
Deep cold, blowing winds fit...

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Categories: pretends, age, analogy, angst, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Preacher's Son
A lonely figure twirls itself, concealed
by blades of wheat as clouds float through the sky.
The form, a boy, looks up from golden field
and sees the...

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Categories: pretends, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Home of the Hang Man
Home Of The Hang Man

The children are so full of doubt
No one is allowed to speak
No one is allowed to shout
Opinions are driven underground
Seems that...

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Categories: pretends, brother, childhood, confusion, family,
Form: Free verse
The Vagabond
The deep delved path winds in the wood,
chasing with ghost-breaths and leafy hoods,
arbor-brawn the winnowed path crooks along;
whispering with what future song?

To ill desire and...

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Categories: pretends, corruption, loneliness, loss, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Slowly He Fades
She walks the paths less traveled
collecting wild flowers and fallen butterflies,
She knows that if she just keeps walking
she'll find herself where she once was,
Only she...

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Categories: pretends, life, lost love, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Miss Communication
There once was, a Miss. Communication
With pleasure she loved to communicate
Writing of love and the wonders of life
Her passion extreme and never sedate

Those afraid, of...

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Categories: pretends, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Quatrain
The Soldier's Way
When my son was small he and his friends loved to play marines
A brown eyed soldier dressed up in his helmet and his jeans
I asked...

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Categories: pretends, dedication, loss, warson, school,
Form: Rhyme

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