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Pretense Poems - Poems about Pretense

Pretense Poems - Examples of all types of poems about pretense to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for pretense.
Premium Member That Was Then, This Is Now
... That was then…. When the tapestry of contentment enveloped the enthralled expanse exhilarated, of the sensuous sky called life. When the fervent flight was friendly for the esoteric essen......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, analogy, life, time,
Form: Free verse



Soul Journey
...Do you truly reveal your essence? Or do you project an illusion untrue? A mirage of falsehood and pretense? Do you know how to just be you? Beneath the mask of deception.. Lies the truth yearn......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, allusion, betrayal, identity, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member People Of Pretense
... I’ve never been where they tread, chasing mirage through desert storm. I look at evasive eyes perennially petrified, see their void vision fixed fast on fantasy, shroud of de......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, analogy, dark, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Missing you
...Reception that isn't perceived message said but not heard lack of communication means to no end disconnect with no plan Pushing to no point Fighting for no eventuality You lay sleeping And ......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, absence, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great American Make-Believe
...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity. I grew up among the repetitious homes, isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity, the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome. Repug......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member HUMBLING PRIDE
... pride of life does reign hoisting human nature’s gain toward downfall pain yon towering pride that offers triumphant ride lurks great fatal stride admitting own blight seek Go......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, character, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member I'm Searching For That True Woman
...Youth is a period without commitment, most prefer the thrill of adventure over ties; the family word is a very distant thought... that's when carelessness meets all dangers! I'm searching for t......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, adventure, future, happiness, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member On Making A Difference
... “My dance on life’s stage, is not to just to prance, But to create beauty, to raise human consciousness, For what good is life, without a balanced, ethical dance!” ......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, beauty, courage, encouraging, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feeling Worthless
... “The worst is feeling worthless.” Quote: Donald Glover I tip the scales. Life curtails. In luminous light To suffer delight. Yielding bend. New age trend. Wanting to break. Now awake. ......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunset of Her Life in Senryus
... Her last gold sunset He hurt her beyond belief Next to God she sleeps No more poems to pen ......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, mystery,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Monarch Butterfly
... Its wings resemble the splendor of ribbed gothic windows. Yet neither Chartres nor Notre Dame, those buttressed monoliths of stone and glass, compare to the monarch’s divine architectur......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, butterfly,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Guiltless Cheater
...Guiltless cheater restrain your pleasures, give some and be selfless; don't walk on water to show confidence and hide your pretense! What was yours will be taken away, from you eventually; ......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, betrayal, fear, feelings, giving,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Words That Hurt Aren't Mine
...No, sad-looking lady, leave out you pathetic pity; I left someone for your sake... she had lips of honey: wasn't it a big mistake? Words that hurt aren't mine, you shouted them too aloud, ta......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, absence, desire, devotion, friendship
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Museum Of Masked Faces - First Draft
... On synthetic derelict stage of deception domain, I gyrate the split mind, ensnared by bipolarity chain. Under illusive limelight of ostentatious time, I’m entangled in machinated invasive par......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme
TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN
...TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN A cow looks at the full moon standing on a sloping hillside it looks straight at the moon as if it were waiting for an answer the beas......Read the rest...
Categories: pretense, courage, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse

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