Best Smoke And Mirrors Poems

Let's live in a fairytale, 
you can chase away the dragons, 
who's smoke breathes to life, 
the nightmares in my dreams.

I can be your Princess,
You can hold me in your arms,
Like a Knight in shinning armor,
And hush away my screams. 

No more wasted time,
with smoke...

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Smoke and Mirrors
They promised her a future bright
She crossed the river with her tribe
The war was bloody
At stake were the land distribution and innocent lives
Her Armenian lover was left behind in her motherland.
She was Turkish
She lived in hope, he would join her soon.
 
 
Some...

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("Perception/Reality Merit Badge" #62, 2015, original oil)

Smoke and Mirrors

Amid the flux
Of shimmering sound and vision
Someone is lying
Is it your eyes 
Is it your ears
Is it those pulling the levers
And splicing the tapes
Or is it all of the above?

In the end
It’s not the lying that matters
Since...

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Who am I , nightmare of dreamers, lover of sweet lies, 
whisperer of fears, collecter of tears, Mr. Smoke and 
Mirrors, she said, I smiled and told her another beautiful 
lie...

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Smoke and mirrors,
That’s all you ever were.
Bathing in the river of illusion.
In the eleventh hour,
Is when your loyalties turned.
You’re a Bloody artist,
Painting me a fool for your own amusement.
Playing with fire always leaves a burn.
Ignorance keeps the monsters away.
Never wanted this to begin with.
Should’ve listened...

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"Full on prison reforms he says"
He means ,we wanna lock up more
With smoke and mirrors they mean to confuse us
When enslaving peoples the family business
They feed on sorrow, and on hate
They've got the keys,they'll build the gates
Unhappily living in a cell of their making
Don't want...

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The more we think we know,
  the more deceived we truly become

Accumulating knowledge
 —the deception of time


(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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I sold my memory
for a present reframed 
The past in revision
—the future in shame

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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I wonder was it ever as i did belive.
Was it more than a midnight encounter something that  fuels a drunks thoughts 
and  emptys his pockets  fater than a closing time bar bill.

As from the street I view   the place I...

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Smoke and mirrors man the barricade 
  Between us with tricks of the dusk drizzled light; 
And formulates hold to the moments purloined, 
  Hold to the moments, hold good and tight. 
For distance is nothing but veils of smoke, 
  Mirrored,...

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Smoke and mirrors
Fill my lungs
The smoke seeps 
I gasp for air
The mirrors mutilate
Cutting my inside
But you were all I had to breathe
And you were all smoke and mirrors...

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lies and 		obfuscation
revenge politics 
           game of the day

extremists
       s  p  l  i  t 
hold hostage the government

power   money   
	self-aggrandizement
 ...

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smoke 
                  aflame, infused
        clouding, signaling, inhaling
fume, billow, reflections, reminiscent 
     distorting, imaging, magnifying 
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while 
letting the 
great magician
pull a white 
fluffy rabbit
from out of 
a black stove top hat
with
a sleight of hand
only through
the dark arts of 
blue smoke and mirrors...

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You were the person looking back in the mirror 
I didn’t love you 
I fell in love with myself who was inside of you
How could you be loved when I had deemed my very heart & soul as unlovable?
Unworthy of human touch & interaction? 
How...

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