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Façade Poems - Poems about Façade

Premium MemberNo One Knows

...As I stand here looking in the mirror at the woman looking back at me, it’s there written in her eyes all the secrets that her mind and heart keeps
It’s written all over the lines on her once beauti...
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Categories: façade, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGATSBY

...GATSBY*
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Gatsby’s my name, character of Fitzgerald fame.
Nick saw through the façade and my game.
     I partied and danced through the night,
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Categories: façade, 12th grade, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberA Night Out at the Carnival

...Under the inky façade of the night sky,
With reluctant steps, I joined the stream of men
Flowing to the place of the great celebration.

A huge crowd was already there in the temple p...
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Categories: façade, celebration, feelings, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIN SILENCE

...Not sure when it started at 6 staying
out of a brutally violent household
taking to the unforgiving streets.

The streets became my teacher and
family albeit dangerous life lessons
learned from...
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Categories: façade, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse

HE THAT GOETH TO-FORE

...The high and the lows, strife and blows
Through high tides, and angry winds,
Hurricanes and tornadoes
Life stalls, uncertainity builds,
fear beckons and faith dissolves
But with the last ounce o...
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Categories: façade, encouraging, faith, hope, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



the train back home

...The cold is leaving the air
And the smell of the grass is sneaking in.
The train is bringing me home,
The home where I was the reckoning.
My body shivers in the summer while remembering,
Remembe...
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Categories: façade, change, conflict, confusion, heart,
Form: Free verse

the life of an artist

...Is my writing only good when I’m drowning?
When I’m down to my knees and my soul shouts heal
Is my happiness on only when I’m socializing?
When I cry of laughter only so my sad tears can be sealed...
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Categories: façade, art, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse

My Last Day in Ogalala

...Road work had been finished
for the winter on an asphalt strip
north of town near a nature preserve.
I said good-bye to the hotel owner
and he invited me back
although the town was a lifetime aw...
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Categories: façade, adventure, appreciation, change, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhy I Feel Empty

...“Emptiness is an all- pervasive feeling of lack of movement or fulfilment in life. It is a hollowness that can’t be filled. It is stagnancy like doldrum”~ By Poet


 Of late, I am haunted by a...
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Categories: façade, anxiety, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAs We Metamorphose

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“being mistook we burnt the book
thoughts rest, we dwell in our heart’s nest
touched by spirit, our body shook
by God’s light blest as we undressed”


In the live network 
of intricate una...
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Categories: façade, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHair Composition

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Her hair dances like the cascading stream, 
murmuring in the silence of dormant dreams.
It’s more than an element of graceful façade,
the curls carry a crown of style adornment.

The onyx ha...
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Categories: façade, analogy, beauty, hair,
Form: Other

Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...
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Categories: façade, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

My overrated Facade

...These scars on my wrists that you just don’t see
This noose around my neck means nothing to me
It’s just the way my life is entrapped by your charm
Your centerpiece of loveliness, you see no harm
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Categories: façade, abuse, angst, confusion, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberEarth

...as waterfalls tear* down my sheer cliffs – 
sculpted by time’s relentless tide 
defying the laws of nature
my age undefined; hidden
towering over my world – 
a beacon for lost souls
enduring …
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Categories: façade, nature,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThe Nightmare - Henry Fuseli

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In vibrations of virtual whispers,
I found her under a satin sunset,
chained to an eerie entity, digging, 
its claws into her silken spirit.
Yet behind her dim eyes - I saw 
tiny flames of fuc...
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Categories: façade, art, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis

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