Best Skullduggery Poems

  Hands shaking, heartbeats racing,
Trembling knees, tears hiding beneath.
A whisper of cold, numbing despair
Silently, desperately creeping in.
Staring on the wall of masks and confusion;
Trying to figure out: why, how, what's wrong?
Left with the uncertainty of guilt and hatred.
The once free-spirited, innocent soul,
Got lost in...

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Over and over there's evidence of the same old story
People giving up their honor when tempted by greed
Seeking fame, fortune and their perception of glory
when they already have much more than they need.

It's a tale of skullduggery about those who are blind
to how they take...

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cravings, like niggling whispers,
flit on covered tables
skitter on the floorboards
shiver nerves like humming cables

racing up my backbone
trembling spinal pathways
as I dive for pantry's knob
in a glucose fired craze

tearing through the shelving
jumping for the flour
cracking eggs like gunshots
batter stacked like sugar'd towers

but wait! oh, no! there's...

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"At Skullduggery our aim is to make this fossil history available to everyone"
said the curator of a very prestigious wax museum, built in nineteen forty one 
all of our replicas are cast from original pieces obtained from other museums
such as the Paris crystal skull, which...

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True loves knows 

no
deceit
cover-up
skullduggery
tricks

 Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For: Pick-A-Title, Vol 26 - Poetry Contest
Title chosen: Skullduggery
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Date: October 12, 2021...

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Did time stop to ask
if it broke your gentle heart,
to depart so soon?

Date: 24th October 2021
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title: Skullduggery...

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"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
 be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." 
Psalm 19:14

Discretion drives an unpredictable wedge
into sheltered, relaxed, indiscreet lives.
Its thunder designs to whet the cutting edge
of thinking which stays safely...

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