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Premium Member Why He Fought
Soldier stashed a silver locket
Safe inside his jacket pocket
When the war would numb his senses
He’d break down and drop pretenses
Open up the only token
That recalled...

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Categories: pretenses, love, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Deceptions Epiphany
A lie, wrapped in deception, in the cloak of silent nights
Deception, soothing as black ink, until dried
The wetness caresses the illusion of pretenses white
When it...

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Categories: pretenses, angel, beauty, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: pretenses, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Exposing My Error
September 24 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 11-12

Key Verse– Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know...

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Categories: pretenses, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imaginary Departures

Rain drizzling on the window pane
Sullen moments, filled with melancholy
Wishes glued to hopes of sunshine
Rays washing away the storm clouds, 
The gray day – the...

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Categories: pretenses, adventure, dream, fantasy, flying,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fire
Flames of desire mesmerize
Instantly provocative to tantalize
Recklessly smoldering embers stirred
Enticing arousal... seduction occurs
 
Stoking the fire again and again
No strings attached is only plan
Both have...

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Categories: pretenses, betrayal, fantasy, fire, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Sing, Goddess
Sing, O Goddess, of my petulant wrath.
That which I’ve failed to address for so long.
Speak and guide my hand to express
The words of extremity needed...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretenses, art, beauty, blessing, for
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Biden My Time
In a bubble
Of social interactions
Biden my time
Behind the gym
Until the trumpets  pout and fluff
Punching I lay them all on the floor

Sadly life is down...

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Categories: pretenses, anti bullying, art, bird,
Form: Political Verse
Tropical Paradise
Isolated island entices my senses
With fruits,flowers,and white sand
A beauty with no other pretenses
The offerings of this gorgeous hot land

Ocean of a clear turquoise green
Skinny dipping...

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Categories: pretenses, beautiful, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Lies
Your lies are numerous..
Consumed by your lies..
Deceived with utter disgust
You continue to lie..

Your lies are an explosive volcano..
Lies build..
Lies erupt..
Your lies spread..
Lava spreading lies everywhere..
When...

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Categories: pretenses, betrayal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Liquid Senses
Another unwanted
passes through memories
down mundane streets 
suburbs undaunted

available liquid pass
tempted nostril senses
youth invaded stolen by
unpure pretenses

soft like shreds of life
tears of laughter
preserve treads
to a childhood...

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Categories: pretenses, childhood, confusion, death, life,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Soul Grown Cold
A Soul grown cold repenting for the lies to come,
lays cast in addiction laced stains of anguished fantasies.
With a tortured logic knowing the only way...

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Categories: pretenses, addiction, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
Life In a Nutshell
Life in a nutshell 
where simplist of wires are strung 
tiptoeing in the delicate balance 
what can be done is done 

wrongs from rights 
days...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretenses, love,
Form: Free verse
Preciously Handcrafted
"We are moving fast towards an age where people will be lovers of self, lovers of 
money, self-seeking. Self-gratifying, laying aside morality, spirituality, family 
values,...

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Categories: pretenses, faith, inspirational, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Borderline Truth
All those lies,
The creaking on the stairs
Glazed fixed eyes
Upon scuff marked boots
My abrupt croak,
Droned-out by sudden humming
From the refrigerator
My voice falls,
Pitched to the floor
Like suspended...

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Categories: pretenses, loss, lost love, sad,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs