Duplicity Poems

Duplicity

Duplicity
Is there a person present beyond the plastic shell?
The AI generation exemplifies artificiality
The same plastic makeup that is prevalent in humans.
Are we people, or are we robots with artificial intelligence?
Devoid of real feeling and emotion, fixated on self.
While our fellow men waste away, 
Their calls for support and help lay in vain.

We remain fixated on
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Categories: duplicity, adventure, africa, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDuplicity

The joy is greatest
Pain equally substantial
The source is the same


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Categories: duplicity, joy, pain,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberDuplicity

This is not as good as it gets;
You needle and it stimulates,
joy your hard nose eliminates;
Screw your limits; Screw your limits;

Don’t ask for attention from me,
I’m something you don’t care to see;
What is the new song gonna be?
       Duplicity, Duplicity.
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Categories: duplicity, anger, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Monorhyme

Rampant Lethargy

R is for the repeated distortions of facts,
A for press articles written with hacks,
M for the emphasis placed on survival,
P for the piss taken out of your rival.
A for analogies that never convince,
N for false narratives making us wince,
T for traditional values cast-off
   That cause umpteen scholars and clergy to scoff.

L is for
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Categories: duplicity, analogy, career, dream, emotions,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberDuplicity of the Wind

The wind seems a song of placidity
As it passes through the meadow near
But I know it’s a harbinger of treachery
Soon, from sudden blasts of Arctic air.

They say a snowstorm is imminent
We must quickly prepare for the worst
A drop in the barometer is prominent,
And folks in our area are well-versed.

The grocer’s shelves are nearly bare
Of staples
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Categories: duplicity, weather, wind,
Form: Quatrain


Paradigm Shift

I’m adjusting fixed positions
On opinions and deductions
From now on breathing other airs
I have a stack of fresh instructions

I let go of once held handle bars
Veering off from straight line steering
Riding curves requiring nerves
Whilst watching stances disappearing

Chancers wait to try it on
Consider risk-maintaining stakes
Ask what can we afford to lose
Whilst still expecting lucky breaks
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Categories: duplicity, confidence, corruption,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberOde To 'Yelp' Duplicity

'Yelp's' a lark, (truth indeed?), maybe servant of greed?
You want 'natural' ratings? Please your advice heed!
Now your model for earning seems blackmail at best,
You pollute client's site with competitor's ad,
Which you'll clear if we pay (proof intentions are bad),
Even Satan can see that Yelp fails 'morals test.'

Many think it'd be nice if Yelp charged a
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Categories: duplicity, abuse, fantasy, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Duplicity

The duplicity of solitude,
— thinker and thought

The lies we tell ourselves, 
  hoping never to get caught

In darkness, living behind walls 
  that conceal

Our thoughts from our feelings, 
—masquerading as real

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2011)
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Categories: duplicity, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Duplicity

As I lay on sodden ground
Silence reigns, 
There lays no sound.

I feel no pains
I have no displeasure
My heart interlocked by chains.

I feel great and euphoric leisure
I am in control I’m proud to say
Nothing can stop this pleasure.

I am feeling no guilt and no sorrows
Am I kidding myself to the actual truth?
Because even small ants cast
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Categories: duplicity, emotions,
Form: Terza Rima

Perfidy Duplicity - Angst

I was deeply in love .
I did not know why our relationship should not be.
He said let’s get marry.
I begin to write vows for our wedding.

We planned our fusing in late June and he canceled in early May.
The message said:
I canceled our nuptial because I am already married.

I am pregnant and do not know what
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Categories: duplicity, anger, angst, betrayal, crazy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Duplicity

Duplicity
Heaven and earth reflecting
Serene and rugged

Ó November 17, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen.
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Categories: duplicity, inspirational,
Form: Senryu

Duplicity

Bound by preconceptions of what is and what cannot be,
we condemn and deny life's inherent duplicity,
that birds sing the songs of God is truly reality
and our thoughts and dreams take flight like leaves from an autumn tree.
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Categories: duplicity, allegory, faith, lifeautumn,
Form: Rhyme

Duplicity

He swallowed my heart with a greedy smile
and the world began to bend
Although I sensed an emptiness
He swore he was my friend

So I parted with a sigh
and He smiled to himself
while picturing my timid heart
upon his trophy shelf
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Categories: duplicity, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Verse

Faithful Duplicity

In the depth of darkness sounds, words, just words of meaningless consequence
Never was there a line so cold, so still, overflowing with too much to hold
Elegant lies weaved into one, the crash comes soon as the enchanted deception runs
Vivid colors, blood red pumps and with every word the mind carries the forbidden orb 
Idolized perfection
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Categories: duplicity, life, time, wedding, wife
Form: Acrostic

Duplicity

Duplicity seems
the eagles's keenness,
to impend and kill
the marabous that rest,
too insecure, into
the dusky and calm sunset...


 
Without vigilance
no prey is seized by claws,
the warm flesh must bleed
to make it painfully croak;
crudities aren't fit
for a bloody, raw palate...



Duplicity shapes 
the hawks' narcissism by greed,
to fret the geese that
plan no imminent escape; 
they may seem robust,
but they
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Categories: duplicity, animals, food, nature
Form: Haiku

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