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Pretention Poems - Poems about Pretention

Ethereal

...ETHEREAL

To explain the unseen without pretention
The aether was once a scientific concept
But recently it’s attracting greater respect
The medium in which memes can connect
Yet it still remai...
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Categories: pretention, senses,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEquality For All

..."We appreciate the popular democratic intention,"
began the Drag Queen Ball proclamation,
'Equity for All'

We would even more appreciate
a more specific lack of pretention:
'Equity for All Vic...
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Categories: pretention, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Drawback

...Most if not always 
my consequences rest
in lamentation of spirit. 
End if not means, 
that crime is a call break
of thought bearing geniuses
I guess, if not pretention
That I am a man. 
That...
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Categories: pretention, analogy, beauty, imagination, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPequot River Land Trust

...Once,
or twice, 
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal

A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted 
sometimes hysterically clu...
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Categories: pretention, blue, culture, environment, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Book of Face

...book of face
I see your quick on that trigger. your words are  offers on man's flawed self righteous altar 
Of the vanity, and sullied grace of ou
The feeble attempt to sacrifice my ego
arpe too,...
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Categories: pretention, computer, judgement, poetry, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberHappens Everyday

...Happens Everyday 

As the lobby door inhale fresh air 
They walk in puffing the indoor
Hoping it will multiply their dwindling puffs
A limit imposed by the illness

Pretension turns into wish,...
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Categories: pretention, health, hope,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSplitting Hairs

...Splitting Hairs
David J Walker

If you only knew 
How often
I do just that

Splitting hairs to enter 
Another dimension 
Leaving me both here
And there, driving the streets 
Of abstract co...
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Categories: pretention, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSplitting Hairs

...Splitting Hairs
David J Walker

If you only knew 
How often
I do just that
Splitting hairs to enter 
Another dimension 
Leaving me both here
And there, driving the streets 
Of abstract conv...
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Categories: pretention, fantasy, imagery, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

They Asked of Her

...And they asked of her,
said unto her:
Why do you write these words,
this ink on an invisible whiteness,
these corruptible scratching’s
as mutable as sand and water?
Surely poetry is but a rever...
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Categories: pretention, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaking Time For Jesus

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Making Time For Jesus
Written: by Miracle Man
2-19-2019

Like so many, I had no time for Jesus, until,
On one routine day life became a bitter pill.
No avenue was apparent for me to p...
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Categories: pretention, jesus, time,
Form: Lyric

Apprehension About Pretention

...Pretention is a claim or an assertion 
of a claim to or about something.
Use of affection to impress; ostentatiousness.

Maybe he had made another pretention;
When done was with much apprehensio...
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Categories: pretention, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Still

...default, your domain undisputed,
a challenge to accept,
that we are the exception,
never asking exemption,
this said without pretention,
to come across the fulcrum,
you would know the tension,
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Categories: pretention, moving on, pain, people,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWildly Domesticated Minds

...I wouldn't call Bill Plotkin's WildMind
unmitigated Wild RightBrained,
nor would I call his WinWin therapeutic thinking
with PositivEnergy feelings
entirely LeftBrain domesticated, diminished

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Categories: pretention, bullying, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse

The Visitor - a Christmas Poem

...Midnight strikes, the world is sleeping; hours until the dawn starts creeping,
Over hills and trees and rivers, bringing in another day.
In the darkness safe and hidden, a visitor somewhat unbidden...
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Categories: pretention, christmas,
Form: Narrative

Sorry, Not Sorry

...I owe no apology for me being me
I owe no "i'm sorry" if I offended thee
I will never apologize for speaking my truth
Being sorrowful is uncalled for, for words spoke in youth
Any plea for forgiv...
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Categories: pretention, destiny, forgiveness, humanity, integrity,
Form: Rhyme

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