Bluffing Poems

Sincerely You

Your color-bled cloth
Just rips at my stitches
I’m monotone; a moth
Calling out to you
With my heavy, little wishes
Fed a steady diet of tweed coat pockets
Bleached in forever stains
And tie dye kisses
In whole, I find a part of me
Your heart sorely misses

Amends for all the faint mistakes
Unearthed while I was bluffing
I perch upon your buttons now
Whispering sweet nothings

Your pettiness is soaking through
Neglected, I’m in love with you
In debt to all your gems
Ugly-headed beauty kills the demons
Yet you’re dressed in them
Another thread of fabric
Slipping from your hem
At least that’s where it seems to me
Your problems mostly stem

Floating and receding
Through the headwinds I’m receiving
Tossed into a better time
Where all your soapy bubbles
Stung my eyes and pierced my stubble
Left me weak and kneeling
Between the lines, my soul would cry
But moths were never known for feeling

I’d crawl to find a warmer spot
Deep inside your shell
Ferocious in its absence
There was solace in your smell
Now my hunger softens
If only for a spell
Who you wished for me to be
Oh, I could never tell

King of Spades

wannabe king smiles
bluffing bold with empty hand
yet in one last move,
he plays the lone trump he holds ~
mighty king of spades, pyrite

The Days

My mind is bluffing all the around the clock
Getting the real ones suppressed and block
I'm in a flow 
I'm in a blow
But the clouds of doubts are covering it all
And coming back to me like fast thrown ball
Trying to change and learn
But instead just getting burn
Shutting and shattering in the corner
Displaying that I'm a good performer
But if replacing your sadness with happiness
And wounds with laughter is not a part of life
Then what makes it challenging 
Perhaps realising this knock on my door everyday banging 
The path I'm heading towards is like a puzzle 
Leading unloaded stress and lots of guzzle
Heard people saying 
Life is what it is
Although experienced 
There's no much difference in dying and then living and in living and then dying.

To Stand for Good

Respect from fear amounts to nothing
What killing ever gained us something
The conscience never came out bluffing
A horrid dream; a sickle cutting
To the violent comes destruction

First an offence then action taken 
A human market
Flesh is traded
Sometimes it feels God forsaken
Where are the good guys 
Will they make it

If you're a real one, people waited
To see your face; be liberated
You stand for good? Then be unshaken
You have the heart that God created

By Kyle Ezra kriticos

bluff 'n bluster

all bark, no trunk tree
wind howls from cruel blank sea
calls all in, bluffing
the emperor has no clothes
no child innocent remains

That Came Out Of Nowhere

That Came Out Of Nowhere

Poker Is All About Bluffing!

Fold.

Did You Already Win?

-Gray Squirrel

05-19-2025

The Days

The Days

My mind is bluffing all the around the clock
Getting the real ones suppressed and block
I'm in a flow 
I'm in a blow
But the clouds of doubts are covering it all
And coming back to me like fast thrown ball
Trying to change and learn
But instead just getting burn
Shutting and shattering in the corner
Displaying that I'm a good performer
But if replacing your sadness with happiness
And wounds with laughter is not a part of life
Then what makes it challenging 
Perhaps realising this knock on my door everyday banging 
The path I'm heading towards is like a puzzle 
Leading unloaded stress and lots of guzzle
Heard people saying 
Life is what it is
Although experienced 
There's no much difference in dying and then living and in living and then dying.

Swords Ovillejo

Such obstreperous obliqueness
filling a guess.

Blissful in my obliviscence,
warm in silence.

Opulent eyes obfuscate words,
I feel swords.

All those obsequious rewards,
they mean absolutely nothing. 
You’re unequivocally bluffing.

Filling a guess warm in silence I feel swords.

Triggers

Triggers

Soft & loud
Here comes the storm cloud

Sssh the silent treatment
Meant for cruelty intent

Everyone’s the enemy
Even if I don’t agree

Stomping, slamming,huffing & puffing
Saying he’s only joking and bluffing

Ignoring, interrupting, intimidation
Only leads to darkness and deflation

Rolling his eyes and being dismissive
Thoughts of not to live

Invisible is how I feel
He says it’s no big deal

Triggers are all around
Without any sound

Irish Coffee

Irish coffee Sunday
 ...soft sweet 
buzz
rolling around in my mind
there's her--
a thousand miles away
and me--
stuck since Christmas 
preparing to leave
a bad man I am
to be restless as water 
flowing right into
every crevice of her being
every nook and cranny ...
the width, height, and depth 
of her soul
opened up for me
will I ever find no place to go
I hope so
yep ...laying my money down
she's bluffing or 
better than I thought
either way I 
can't lose what I never had
and it's worth it to "feel
the road rushing under my wheels" *
water doesn't know
where it's running
but places to go 
it never runs out of
like these Sunday thoughts running
on and on--
--bartender
--'nother Irish Coffee, please 




* from "Running on Empty" by Jackson Brown

Numb

I was asked how I was feeling today
I was weirded out and I didn't know what to say
Maybe it’s that I don’t know feelings
Or maybe because my answer isn’t appealing
Or because no one would understand
It’s like I should have an automatic answer planned

After some self-contemplation
There really is no explanation
I feel nothing at all
I’m not depressed, I can't remember the last time I cried, let alone bawled
I’m not happy
I don’t know what I am, it’s even weird to be snappy

But if I say I’m numb
I look extremely dumb
People start judging
Then if I say I’m ok, they’ll know I’m bluffing
But what else can you do
Then say I’m good instead of the truth

Peace, Double or Nothing

Give peace a chance
To sit at the table
It’s worth the gamble 
And is most able

To win a few hands
Or spin the big wheel
Give peace a chance to
Get in on the deal

Give peace a chance
It has better odds
Than a war waging
‘Tween wanna-be-gods

We know peace can have
At least nine in ten
Chances of winning
Versus fighting men

Give peace a chance
It’s in the cards
When warmongers fold
Give them best regards

No matter the score
Peace won’t be bluffing
And then it will win
Double or nothing.

Gamblin' Zoo

"Hit me!" it's blackjack all day long
In a dingy zoo type sing-a-long
and since you can never eat just one
It seems those chips have all but gone!
Bluffing there like a daft giraffe
Just because you stuck your neck out
Still showed your true spots, no doubt
So switch it up to Texas holdem
get the laundry done and fold em'!
Or all in now and say you told em'
If you win don't brag too hard
Don't shove it in their face card
Or from this game you might be barred
And then I guess all you can do
Is sing in your cage until game two
In your pen or where chips are piled
I'd say in both cases, deuces are wild...

Those Who

those who begin to know are - infants   
those who know it all are - teenagers
those who want to know are - students
those who think they know are - teachers
those who know bluffing are - managers
those who know fudging are - politicians
those who play mind-games are - salesmen
those who profit from gamble are - bankers
those who rule our world are - psychopaths
those who know the score are - winners
those who think it’s alright are - losers

Offer Deal Or No Deal Up 2 You Now 2 Decide

What's fresh new delight could you
possibly

Have to offer onto me that I have not
yet had before

Or you have kept from me and 
in your locker left

So pretty please now feel free
to go ahead and finish what you
started

Since you have just ever so cleverly 
drawn me in and now have my full 
undivided attention 

As I am now more than a little intrigued to
know what indeed in fact if exactly anything
you have up your sleeve 

So go ahead I call and let's see and
find out if you were bluffing after all

And whether or not I myself then have
anything to counter offer you back in
return with 

Otherwise haggling then at that point
is positively pointless

As I have no cards left to play and the
only offer left on the table

Is the initial one you made i naively
choose to turn down

• Short Bluffing Poems
• Famous Bluffing Poems
• Best Bluffing Poems
• Read Bluffing Poems
• Long Bluffing Poems
• Bluffing Quotes