Best Trickery Poems

Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery

(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)


Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script 
Ah, I see "I" the spy has stumbled upon new tricks 

Disloyalty - The Perfidy - eye-witness – an errant scheme 
Perhaps errant- perfidious? A joke!...

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11/12/2013
make me actually LOL 2
 Nina Parmenter



Fat or skinny
Short or long
There is no way to go wrong
When their put inside your buns
It becomes a lot of fun
They can squirt stuff from inside
They are moist and sometimes dry
Plumping up when they get hot
They are loved a...

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Under ghostly moon--
Bloody skeletons hang
Opening coffins

witches brew maggots in cauldrons
at the end of hooded dance

Shrieks from bleak alleys
Ruffle cobweb  hairs
Medusa hunts for flesh

a shortening  of pulses
mingles with children’s sweats

Pumpkin lanterns
expand knifed fangs
Loot bags ripping

from cracked windows of  trickery
Halloween’s beat mounting,  run!


*alternating...

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three wicked moons ago, we flew to a halloween get-away 
on the beach island frilled with dangling bouquets.” no
costumes , please”,  the invitation loudly read.. so off i went, 
the brood still washing their heads… in simple sundress, my eyes
kept singing la-la-la. the hall...

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Masters of Trickery

alien ornithopters filled with pilgrims
gliding in under a full moon
foul smelling unwashed bumbling
hubcap jockeys from artless galaxies
firing bursts of compressed methane
in wanton hypnotic quantities
ended civilization as we know it
the survivors reel in stupor
the land is barren its people wail
our women masturbate exclusively
our men...

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The ability to stay calm is a hard task to manage.
The wooden bench I am sitting on creaks with every 
move I make. Each creak stabs my ears.
The open wilderness surrounding me has a sinister face
it likes to hide.
The strong wind blows my loose papers-...

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i witnessed your trickery
but could you see mine?
it still seems a mystery
perfectly timed
i guess when it hits you
as matter of fact
that lesson wont miss you
to surely react...

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Twilight finally at rest peace serenely blanketing.
Singing of the ticking timepiece, patter at the stillness.
High-pitch sound of quiet lingering insanely.
Hour’s transient, expressions of a book, devours the mind.
Unexpectedly, the eye catches a dim glimpse of light.
Pages of paragraphs being digested, luminosity disregarded.
Light grows more intense,...

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SHORTEST     DAY    TRICKERY


Again  December 23 is almost here 
Frost’s darkest evening of the year,
Ok.  But what really bugs me
Is that it is the date when we 
Are actually closer to the sun
By three million miles ...

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There’s no council without wise old,
Nor old that vouch dharma nor virtue,
No virtue, truth would not uphold,
Nor truth free from fraudulent hue!   
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Translation |20.10.2024|assembly, old, virtue, truth, trickery

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. This verse is taken from...

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I found out
All that money is
Not needed
Cash doesn’t
Cure pain, sadness, and sorrow
And can’t buy pure love

Russell Sivey...

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Have you met trickery?
Or ever shaken it's hand?
Maybe you met thru faces of a so-call friend.

Were you acquainted long?
Or did you quickly move on?
Maybe you try too hard,
For a place in which to belong.

Maybe you realized harm laid in-store...
And wisely kept trickery from entering your...

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Halloween is here!
But have no fear! 
This is my guide so you survive. 

Beware the graveyards full of ghosts and ghouls. 
The graveyard is where you will see zombies feasting.
Stay in the light, form large groups, don't be fools.

Beware the alleys vampires hang about usually...

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We must win the war,
Energy still raw;
With foes wipe the flour;
Not for us a sore…

To lose is a flaw,
End up in some jaw,
Long opened bad door;
Death would try its gnaw…

In battles the fore 
As eagles to soar
Like lions to roar
Where gun fire is core…

Now, speech...

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You are funny!  He is six, with big brown eyes.
I have sixty years on him.  His head is thrown back, he gives a loud laugh.
I am confused. “What did I say?”
“You said this is a spegasor.”
“It is a Stegosaurus,” I tell him.
His laugh...

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