Mendacity Poems

Lucky kids

...I wish we were still young and brave
Playing around and run all day
We would eat our lunch and go out to play
Climb tall trees and to God we would pray

We would scream at night playing hide and...
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Categories: mendacity, adventure, childhood, cool, death,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberVOTING AWARENESS AND POLITICAL WINDS

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VOTER AWARENESS AND POLITICAL WINDS

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As the American
Political world turns,
Its winds of change
Are blowing with
An enormous  increase
In voter pressure:-

To determine th...
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Categories: mendacity, allegory,
Form: Prose


Premium MemberA Disobedient Prophet

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Once a prophet who is now anonymous in name,
conveyed the Lord’s word, but later brought himself much shame.
If not disobedient, he might have won some fame.
He fell as prey to another m...
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Categories: mendacity, bible, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWAR'S OXYMORONIC JUSTIFICATION: AN AWARENESS HAIKU TRIO

...WAR’S OXYMORONIC JUSTIFICATION
       (An Awareness Haiku Trio)

           They say, sowing war
           is a profound investment
           reaping fruits of peace:-

           Billions o...
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Categories: mendacity, allegory,
Form: Haiku

Macabiloquent Mastery

...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories: mendacity, dark,
Form: Free verse


The Mirage

...The river Life is nothing but a glib tunnel,
Except for the dazzling water, it is just a disastrous canal.
Except for any untamed misery,
It would only be an adversary.

Except for an acute pied...
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Categories: mendacity, allegory, confusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

The Unfeasible Expedition

...The sheer maintenance of the probability,
Nothing is comparable to our garrulous mendacity.
Nothing can be called a consummate pattern,
Except for any tremendous aching, this life would only be a ...
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Categories: mendacity, courage, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalloween

...With pumpkins big and small, yellow and gold,
Scattered all over the farm, they look the best,
Jack sits with the pumpkins carved into Jack-o-lantern mold.

Jack led a life of sin, drink and mend...
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Categories: mendacity, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

A Remarkable Caricature

...I am praying for an eternal silence,
Your loudest move is just another offence.
I have been open to you for the longest period,
The interpretation you want to pursue is just making you an idiot. 
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Categories: mendacity, allusion, emotions, imagination, loss,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat To Consider

...Humani mendacity 
Foul water still and staining
A bowl full of silence

A firming maybe.? Assent?
No approbation.? No Dishonour
Validation yet; no walking  out..'

Hard heads no holds; denied...
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Categories: mendacity, analogy, dedication,
Form: Other

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories: mendacity, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Telling White Lies

...Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
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Categories: mendacity, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme

As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years

...As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradica...
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Categories: mendacity, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGo, Nancy, Go

...Seems the Chinese are saber-rattling near Taiwan
Making the headlines and stoking some fears,
While the Speaker of the House has moved on
To be greeted in the Far East with lots of cheers.
I say,...
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Categories: mendacity, anxiety, places, political, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWe Were Spectators

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Our cry, silenced.
We watch the murder of our freedoms
Like spectators at a lynching.
Our Twenty-first-century forbearance rubbed out,
Our twentieth-century sensibilities never happened.
High...
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Categories: mendacity, abortion, birth, body, freedom,
Form: Didactic

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