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Best Smokescreen Poems

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Hiding Behind a Smokescreen
Some people hide behind smokescreens
so that they can deceive others,
with elaborate schemes,
hoping to fulfill their dreams on the 
sweat of the innocent,
refusing to repent,
refusing to...

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Categories: smokescreen, introspection
Form: I do not know?



Smokescreen
Have you heard who’s coming to town? 
Why, she’s only the very best actress in around!
She can make you angry,  make you cry
She can...

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Categories: smokescreen, deep, depression, sad,
Form: Lyric
Reaching Out
Through thickening haze,
I hear your voice call my name, 
encouraging me, words beating 
with my heart, guiding me home
as I stumble and crawl… 
lost in...

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Categories: smokescreen, freedom, hope, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Temple of the Gods-Palindrome
Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne...

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Categories: smokescreen, evil, power, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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Categories: smokescreen, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member "lol, For Christ's Sake" (A Blog)
(This is a Blog)
          How about a little humor, for we as human beings need it....

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Categories: smokescreen, introspectionlost, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Black Labels
she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden by camouflage and...

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Categories: smokescreen, courage,
Form: Free verse
Talking
We talk poems, or poems talk us,
The talk is submerged
in everyday speech,
it is always writing,
always traveling on the breath
always announcing from a mute heart.

Try not...

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Categories: smokescreen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the Darkest Hour
Orchestrated plots from the birth of corruption
Meticulously cunning, blue print semantics
Shadows overriding sheer manipulation
Much more to its sleeves, sly gimmickry and antics

Overlapping smokescreen piling up...

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Categories: smokescreen, abuse, dark, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Down....(From a Common Man)
Don't tell me I won't like it...it's not for you to decide.
Don't tell me how to raise my children...we're doin' just fine.
Don't tell me not...

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© Jim David  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokescreen, angst, political, satire, slam,
Form: Free verse
Goth Girl
Goth Girl, ebony black, manners slack, hit the sack
Gothic, Hispanic, remote chic, slick, sick
Goth Girl, non- conform, nonsense, hence
Gothic, lick lick lick, slurp, chirp
Goth Girl,...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokescreen, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
One Ring To Rule Them All
Forged in the pit of despair, the Megacity to dwell.
One Place
to rule them all.
Hell.

Let us come soon to surface in false identity,
Saviours, Creators, with no...

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Categories: smokescreen, caregiving, engagement, eve, evil,
Form: Narrative
Living a Life of Deception
No one can understand you, because you're not your typical run of the mill
it's all due to your philosophy, a mind that thinks but a...

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Categories: smokescreen, faith, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Virgin
VIRGIN

Virginity made a promise to always remain a virgin
It’s all pride and dignity; so careful, least all will cave in
She got the deep well locked;...

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Categories: smokescreen, fun, girl, truth, integrity,
Form: Classicism
A Sonnet On Lies
A SONNET ON LIES



Tell me the lies that can't be caught.

Becloud the truth that can't be sought.

On the road once taken, you can't untrot,

If smokescreen...

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Categories: smokescreen, life, song-lyric
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things