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Best Put Up A Good Show Poems

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My Eyes Tell a Story
My eyes tell a story
That my lies can’t deny
If you want to know me
Look me in the eye
And you will see the truth
That I try...

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Categories: put up a good show, introspection, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



Heart Beat
Sleepless and confused, my mind wonders around like a lost child,
all this gray and rain makes me think suicidal. 
Having to do the same stuff...

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Categories: put up a good show, inspirational, love, music, passion,
Form: Light Verse
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Balassi Stanza: 
Show

Applying mascara,
Hiding a real era,
Flirt with everyone you know. 
Smile with your lipstick,
Get some money real quick,
Do your best, take it slow.
Eyes flicking...

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Categories: put up a good show, abuse, age, love hurts,
Form: I do not know?
It's Simply Magic
It’s Simply Magic


It’s just a little bit of magic, to enlighten your world;
It’s just another illusion, to fool the boys and girls.
It’s just another magic...

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Categories: put up a good show, children, magic, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Phantasmagoria
“50 Words for Poe: Phantasmagoria”




“Darling, there’s someone here 
who would like to meet you...”

This was how it all began -

‘twas the night of the Ghost...

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Categories: put up a good show, dark, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Free verse



Ode To Todd (1963-2001)
I would like to tell you
About Todd, our brother
He was one of a kind
Unlike any other

Todd played a mean banjo
He could sing like a pro
The...

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Categories: put up a good show, death, health, life, loss,
Form: Epitaph
Gracious Braces
Like jewels on crowns
The little buddies sat in a row
Hands clutched together
Raring to go
Filled with intent
To put up a good show.
Weaving their magic slowly
Through days...

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Categories: put up a good show, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Rat Race
We'll work meg a years in the rat race of life,
When we're quite young we deal with the strife.
With a boss looking on we watch...

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Categories: put up a good show, business, on work and
Form: Tail-rhyme
Why'D You Have To Go?
Why’d you have to go?
This is home,
This is were the heart is,
Where your start is.
And this is where you sat
Everyday
And every night I look
But I...

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Categories: put up a good show, angst, death, depression, life,
Form: I do not know?
Covid Rules
No more hunter gatherer
No more man
No more hunter gatherer
A strategic plan

Like lemmings to the cliff edge
Like lemmings we will go
They didn’t have to push us...

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Categories: put up a good show, death, destiny, earth, god,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Good Show
Put on a good show
For the people in the front row
Can’t express your true feelings
With a sack on your head
The living dead
On the ground kneeling
Your...

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Categories: put up a good show, depression, emotions, identity, image,
Form: Verse
The Actor
Another day, gotta keep at it ,
Play the role of Ms Smiley face,
Dust myself up and put on the mask ,
And thus put on a...

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Categories: put up a good show, anxiety, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Curtain Call
The curtain rises and the act begins
put that foot here 
say this word now
don't you advertise that fear

Cause babe we're putting on a show
the fake...

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Categories: put up a good show, life, teen,
Form: Free verse
God Is Not Religious
Forget the religious folks, they don’t have a clue. 
Of who God really is, or what He can do.
 They talk churchy talk, man they...

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Categories: put up a good show, addiction, atheist, easter, faith,
Form: Rhyme

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