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To Beth: Rochester Falls
...You tried to lead me (surely) by the hand across the shallows but we were both too drunk and the stones too slick so we slid stumbling and laughing, falling toward each other all the way acr......
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Roxanne Andorfer
Categories:
pretences,
beautiful, celebration, giggle, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Tribe
...you opened your mind and dropped your defences you smiled at pretences nodding blind, bending to the lies you're connected to the tribe you chatter and shout mouthing simple phrases spouting......
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Frederick Naish
Categories:
pretences,
age, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Queen's chair
... In awe I lay upon the verdant knoll, mesmerised by the silent starry sky, a mirror gleaming deep within my soul, reflecting timelessness, I barely know. Venerate Venus dances in reverse, spi......
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Sean Kibble
Categories:
pretences,
allegory, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Eat teeth
...When the purple turtle visits the supermarket the heels are worn in two. Heaviness and heaving are one and the same. The exact trajectory of a star is never the same as reducing a pile of eggs to ......
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Lana Porcorioja
Categories:
pretences,
angst, business, chocolate, city,
Form:
I do not know?
Consequences
... Consequences Miracle Man 12/11/2024 We have all done things which we regret, from a time in life when young and green. While the reason for doing we quickly forget, and the end resu......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
pretences,
death of a friend,
Form:
Lyric
Metamorphosis
...Metamorphosis Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker Change is inevitable Acceptance of it means obeying the law of nature. Though noticed or not, transfiguration goes on. Beautiful ......
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Patri Venkata Ramana
Categories:
pretences,
change, character, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
the real and the unreal
... A poet paints a leaf greener than it is, a dramatist makes the story more tragic, human nature crave for what unreal gave, ignores reality that may hold more bliss, those large white marble scu......
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Krish Radhakrishna
Categories:
pretences,
devotion, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Nobody Understands
... f l i c k e r i n g f l a m e s guide upon fragile pretences. Wax d r i p s like heavy t ......
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Silent One
Categories:
pretences,
angst, emotions,
Form:
Verse
If The World Just Burned
...If the world burned I wouldn't be too sad Afraid of the abyss But definitely just fine I have nothing to cling on too much A lover, couple parents and Some family really not that much ......
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Moses Sichach
Categories:
pretences,
anxiety, dark, emo, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
The pain of truth
...Fighting back my tears Feeling the fear Painful rejection Powerful deception Read between your lines Your lies intertwine Making the truth obscure And my heart less pure I’ll get up off th......
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Sarah Kettle
Categories:
pretences,
heartbreak, love, love hurts,
Form:
Lyric
Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
...When we search for answers from egotistic minds, life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere. You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams, corrupting and confusing the cl......
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Ink Empress
Categories:
pretences,
abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Need I Keep Watching Your Pretences
...Need I keep watching your pretences: You're good only at using tenses! And I need not mind your courtesies: Put you I have in parenthesis, Catholic your inconsistencies, On this could write a Ma......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
pretences,
absence, career, perspective, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
Steel Magnolias
...Steel magnolias By Michelle Morris 21/03/2023 I am a steel magnolia Don't underestimate my strength I have more backbone than ten men And no time for false pretences I've lived through un......
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Michelle Morris
Categories:
pretences,
blessing, inspirational, life, power,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be Brought Into Being
...Why? For I choose to not be blinded; I pass pretences, the periphery of parameters of People and Life and the Illusions we wrap ourselves in. Variables become Limitations when the cloak ......
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Skye Awenborn
Categories:
pretences,
growth, self, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
My Off Colour Lover
...I know a young lady won't mention her name Posts naughty stuff often for shame, for shame My kinda filly with that there's no question Her mind can be slanted in a naughty direction T......
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Jack Ellison
Categories:
pretences,
fun,
Form:
Couplet
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