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Masques Poems - Poems about Masques

Premium Member Masques of Tyranny
...Tyranny wears no single face— it dances in silk and iron, in laughter rippling through marble halls, in jeweled cups brimming with poison. Here stand five shadows cloaked in power: the Jade Em......

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Categories: masques, dark, evil, fate,
Form: Ode
The Masques Of Time
...Today is yesterday’s tomorrow Tomorrow now yesterday past The future today until borrowed The past a present — dying gasp (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) ......

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Categories: masques, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted. In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth. Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h......

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Categories: masques, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Is It Sunday
...'Tis be the night like any, except, this year, the eve will fall on a Sunday. 'Twill be easier for the foxes to appear from their denizens. There'll be time enough for them to put a......

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Categories: masques, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Storm
...All you have to do is waiting, To listen to the wind rumble, Like poor elephants, All you have to do is waiting, Sealed in our rooms, Praying for his slate roof, Praying for the wires, I can n......

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Categories: masques, courage, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member That's Close Enough
...*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki. That's Close Enough Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always, A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a wor......

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Categories: masques, allusion, change, character, identity,
Form: Sijo
Unveiled With Age
...Crowds and noise and people enthralled me When I had deciduous teeth. And a simple thought of loneliness Engendered collywobbles in me. How amicable people look when viewed with jejune eyes! ......

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Categories: masques, age, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Coronaku
...One face for all seasons Masques play viral hide and seek caged smiles, pensive eyes......

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Categories: masques, angst, anxiety, fear, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Digital Persona
...Cave wall shadows. Plato warned us. Like Prince Prospero’s Abbey. A cyber-dominion of masquerades. Anonymity is a collective loneliness. Electronic patches and flickers that we create. The ......

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Categories: masques, computer, evil, identity, power,
Form: Political Verse
You Can Become Dreamy In a Spa
...”You Can Become Dreamy In A Spa” (by Rainbow ?? Promise) Soft Erie-like musical strains - Guitars, flutes, banjos, violins Float in the Air with rhythmic flare. With rhythmic flare you l......

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Categories: masques, allusion, conflict, dark, feelings,
Form: Senryu
Wiz Away
...Wiz Away I entered the empty funeral hall. Am I not at the correct memorial gathering in visitation room H? “Excuse me, sir, but is this the memorial for Mr. Wizby? There is not a posting besi......

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Categories: masques, age, crazy, magic,
Form: Narrative
Introspection
...I look within my bag, and baggage more unquenched desires. N erve wrecking mental state, thus illogically surmounts. T he wisdom of sages to simplify life ends in absurd futility. R ather than em......

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Categories: masques, desire, peace,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Rebel No Anima No Animus
...Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision implants explosive animation from the deep unknown like a taro rootstock growing......

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Categories: masques, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
Lauren At 17
...She understands the wind in all its fancies; First born of all our lives in transition Sheer elegance becomes a metaphor transparent, To always be a Dancer in the woods. She lives inside herself and......

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Categories: masques, freedom, metaphor, , western,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Temptaion
...The great tempter tries, subtly, watching us, lurking to lure. Preparing, waiting to dazzle us, in times we are unsure. His flames dance so beautifully, as we watch we are in awe. Wa......

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Categories: masques, visionaryfire, fire,
Form: Rhyme

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