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Phoniness Poems - Poems about Phoniness

Premium Membershe was artificially unnatural

...she was artificial
a counterfeit human being
her phoniness is unreal
uncalled for and unnecessary
there is an unnatural feeling about her
her words come across as lies
she is stiff, unkind and ...
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Categories: phoniness, woman,
Form: Free verse

platitudeness

...the platitudinizes 

I have woken up to the world we inhabit 
so, much double-speak, self-interest, egotism
and tame excuses make me physically ill
For many, it is about getting the upper hand
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Categories: phoniness, absence, allusion, baptism, dark,
Form: Free verse



Honesty and Hypocrisy

...Honesty's the best policy.*
Tolerance is hypocrisy.
Does the peace of mind lie in this:
"To be in good terms with the friends
And tolerate the enemies"?†
Oh, no! It's but mere phoniness.
The li...
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Categories: phoniness, culture,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberO'Yes, Braver Still Are Well-Hidden Scribes

...O'Yes, Braver Still Are Well-Hidden Scribes

Only the empty darkness dared to taunt
for even the great hero had his wants
not for gold or any treasure at all
yet is not common for greatest heroe...
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Categories: phoniness, dark, deep, evil, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet

I Do

...I’ve been curious 
You don’t be sayin’ much 
But I think I’m falling

Hey,
There’s depth within your morals
It’s somethin’ about the way you hold yourself
We resonate on a different level 

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Categories: phoniness, blessing, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse



Quantum of Solace

..."My piece of Solace!"

A world of losses and defeats
Wandering soul in search of peace
Spiritually exhausted not because of sins
But tired of giving & giving of the services...

A fair of self...
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Categories: phoniness, life, psychological, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOutside the Box

...I walk on the edge of unacceptabilities
Experimenting with the bizarre my norm,
And I enjoy flouting the accepted form
Insulting the more refined sensibilities.

I am the product ...
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Categories: phoniness, adventure, confidence, courage, identity,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberIn It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound

...In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Re...
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Categories: phoniness, art, imagination, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Kindred Spirit

...Kindred Spirit do you call me?

How could this be?

Many years of loneliness 

Here with no phoniness 

Enlightened by your humane spirit 

Permeating my being every minute 

Until our so...
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Categories: phoniness, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHey I'M Over Here

...Hey, I’m Over Here!

Hey!  I’m over here!
‘Case you were wondering if I was okay, I am.
I have no friends now so no one is checking up on me,
And I’m fine with not having friends anymore;
They’...
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Categories: phoniness, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Brilliant

...Brilliant
Is the color you can't touch called phoniness?
Is an invisible hug called wind?
If you miss someone is it loneliness?
Fate steals if only the result is blind,
The time...
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Categories: phoniness, 9th grade, blessing, brother,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberDarkness In Me

...There's a darkness in me I've faced, chased, and sought erased. I've watched it grow and I've watched it shrink and it gave me time to think. This darkness exists purely of my own volition and I'...
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Categories: phoniness, confidence, meaningful, recovery from,
Form: Prose

A Tired Beast

...Like a hungry vampire, pursues me loneliness 
Scarier than sharp canines for me human phoniness
I feel myself a tired beast in the jungle
Which life has driven into a blind angle
But   is calling...
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Categories: phoniness, anger,
Form: Romanticism

Kaun

...They sanctioned phoniness in Kaun,
the abode of the sexy stone,
Isaac's,
a man like James Johnson,
grew delusional,
longing for a super match,
idyllic as a woman without a "Most High",
in a gr...
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Categories: phoniness, celebrity, culture, desire, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

To Be Blessed

...To be blessed 
May the Lord Almighty set me free
To peacefully pace in His island’s lee
When the vice storms in a lusty surge 
And Eden earth is thrashed with its scourge  

When ethics to the ...
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Categories: phoniness, devotion, spiritual, world,
Form: Rhyme

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