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Fit In Masque

Fit In Masque

It's as
Flimsy
As that
Film
You
Wear:

FEAR

All 
the
Time.

[STOP.]

-Gray Squirrel

05-03-2024

Categories: masque, dad, endurance, father, how
Form: Free verse

The Masque

Rhyme
to mask the message
Rhythm 
to drive it home
Trapping words
in cadence strong
Cutting
to the bone

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)

Categories: masque, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Angel In Masque

Stars on strings dangle.
The prance of a lovely angel,
Infatuates those who know,
She will go against your foe.

Curtains unveil new life,
A dreamy eclipse reflects a knife.
Dull metallics do show,
She will greet your foe.

Lights from the heavens rain,
Luminating a growing pain.
Darkening course veins flow,
She will adore your foe.

Crumbling walls ungulate
Destruction writes a fate,
A bruised demon doth crow.
She

Categories: masque, analogy, angel, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

En Masque

smiles and snarls
a confederacy of lies
the stoicy of masks


John G. Lawless
7/18/2020

Categories: masque, fear, irony,
Form: Senryu

Beneath the Masque

Embracing the myth,
I hide deep within

More Devil than Savior,
aboriginal sin

Excuses my sacraments,
grace bartered for lies

Judgment internal
—redemption denied

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

Categories: masque, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Bal Masque

The dawn of anticipated darkness,
Pierces these gilded walls.
The smoulder of sinister heat arising-
An entombment of dreams.

Let us raise our chalices of stars
To toast these woodland creatures emerging.
From beyond the drapes of tasseled velvet,
Through the seeps by light of moon.

Find the phantoms that dwell in lit shadows;
They stray to the rhythm of unwhispered truths.
Is this magic

Categories: masque, appreciation, beautiful, dance, dream,
Form: Free verse

The Masque

Every book has a hundred messages
  trying to get out

Every song has ten inside of it
  waiting to sing loud

Every painting has a hidden image
   fighting to be shown

And every poem has a secret voice
   —dying to be known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Categories: masque, art,
Form: Rhyme

The Masque

The Masque
By Rick Rucker

I go about my daily task,
Covered by my spiffy mask,

I ride Silver into town,
To save those, trodden down,

Accompanied, as I am, by Tonto,
I must get the bad guys, pronto!

It would seem to be my Fate, 
To clean up a town in half an hour, never late!

I wear the mask, not as a

Categories: masque, funnysilver,
Form: Couplet

Masque De Poesie

Don’t ever bare your soul,
Conceal your psyche’s role
Behind your metaphors and metric lines.
And don’t undress your heart,
Disguise the tragic part
It plays inside your poetry’s designs.

Categories: masque, art
Form: Verse

Masque of Mysterio

The piano screams my name
No body knows my pain
Out on a stormy day
What else does your story say

As we exist 
through a code of known morals
Who can strip 
the back of a snake corralled
Pleasantly awaken common sense 
and flaunt it plural
Ruminants 
of an area less than rural 
Drip-lets let you know something’s fallen
I wish but

Categories: masque, life, music, recovery from...,
Form: Free verse

The Masque of the Red Death

A disguised figure approaches
The masquerade of laughter and relief
Invisible he might be at the beginning 
But deathly and haunting is his journey's end

A stiff and cold breeze is felt
As it passes by the people
But ignorance and uncaring filled their conscious
For their happiness and joy overtook their mind

These people were locked in a mansion
So huge that

Categories: masque, allegory, death, life, loss,
Form: Free verse

Masque

Behind the shell, the outward lies prostrated 
And beckons with the lure of golden dreams; 
A gown of lesser evils decimated, 
Decaying thread by thread, torn at the seams. 
Revealed the hell, the dying eyes dictated 
Rings of circles damned in their decreasing; 
The peeling masque split wider, indicated 
How cold the past may grip

Categories: masque, introspection, life, lost love,
Form: Verse