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Best Trickery Poems

Below are the all-time best Trickery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of trickery poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Cosmic Siren
* A collaboration with the wonderful poetess Subhadra Naryann. Please check out her heartfelt poems here on PS.

In transcendental dreams a lover's voice
seduces from beyond...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trickery, desire, longing,
Form: Sonnet



Behind the Mask
Behind the mask there is a frail and fragile me
Enigmas clothed in conundrums; that the naked I can’t see

'Behind the mask is concealed, my authenticity
Examine...

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Categories: trickery, depression, life, sad, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marionette Master
~Marionette Master~    

All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on

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The Moon slowly moves its way...

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Categories: trickery, abuse, fear, me, moon,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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Categories: trickery, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Nature
"Join hands to sweep clean of all dirt and preserve the pristine beauty of Nature to enhance the quality of living. If not, fear her...

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Categories: trickery, abuse, beauty, home, nature,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: trickery, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind's Promised Grace
The wind is an easel of darkened hue 
Under hanging clouds, my breath meets the sea
Where tears on night’s air linger to review
This pain once...

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Categories: trickery, peace,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love's Magic
Facing fragile feelings held within,
pain will inevitably begin.
For; pride rebuffs attempts to amend
the sins that you stubbornly defend.

In a world of scammers and fakers,
trickery breeds...

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Categories: trickery, angst, break up, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
While We Stay Silent
While we stay silent
The fight is going on.
In Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
The West Indies
And the Lebanon
All over the world
There is a tale to tell
Of...

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Categories: trickery, allusion, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Magic
Confronting fragile feelings within,
pain will inevitably begin.
While pride rebuffs attempts to amend
the sins you still stubbornly defend.

In a world of shakers and takers,
trickery breeds liars...

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Categories: trickery, august, betrayal, depression, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
If Only We Ask
What makes you 
Think? That your life is 
Lost in misery,
That you choose to live
In trickery!
Is it because of not having
Wealth? That your fervour is...

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Categories: trickery, devotion, faith, father, life,
Form: Didactic
He, She-We
He lied about his industry
and cut me to the heart

She tried to be a mystery
please, I'm way too smart

He had a way with levity
I always...

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© Erina Rain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trickery, anger, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snake Oil Man
In a covered wagon he travelled west 
For every ailment he had a cure
His miracle oil he claimed was the best 
People he conned were...

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Categories: trickery, america, humor,
Form: Sonnet
One Answer
"Show us God", they cried aloud
Said with trickery from the crowd

Then a faint voice served with smile
Said, "Look my friends,
Look at the child!"

Brenda Elizabeth Rose...

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Categories: trickery, allegory, child, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Jaws of Life Could Take Me Home Tonight
Wrestling the wreckage, I'm fading into darkness unknown.
My head is going straight to voicemail, missing calls from home.
These veins are erratically static, strung out on...

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Categories: trickery, abuse, addiction, angst, death
Form: Rhyme

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