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Pretext Poems - Poems about Pretext

Premium MemberGolden Hour Breathless Embrace

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Written: May 25, 2025, for Contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my so...
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Categories: pretext, appreciation, love,
Form: Sonnet

Not that Jack and Jill

...Not that Jack and Jill

Jack took Jill up the hill 
On the pretext of fetching water
But the need for some weed 
Was a far more pressing order.
The hill was all green with flowers asunder
When...
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Categories: pretext, adventure, africa, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIn a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times

...In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times,
A dark veil is now woven, a prison for lost souls,
Where critical spirit and free thought are but whispered memories,
Control of education ...
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Categories: pretext, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn Practice - Feb 24

...The present prince of Prussia prances proudly
With preaching priests, while prattling proles suppress
The primal pressure to prank the pretext
Of proper praise for the precious primate....
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Categories: pretext, funny, humor, humorous, pride,
Form: Alliteration

loves lost

...lost love all sorts
motivates not
any good reports 
move cold to hot
such own sigh wish
gone now eye next
one here blue dish
without pretext
ready confess
real life unfold
death not success...
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Categories: pretext, death, death of a
Form: Quatrain



Opinionated

...Sometimes, people suffer
From the mistake decisions of other
Much worsen if it's the errors of leader.

Oftentimes, people mistake
In choosing their leaders is a pretext
That something is going...
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Categories: pretext, patriotic, people, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme

Portrait Of A Lovelorn Person

...An abstract dull spirit, amorphous and loose,
Cloudy and irate, possessing the even  soul,
Haunts the frail  mind and body on the whole
Of the one who fervently chases a wild goose 
Firmly believ...
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Categories: pretext, love,
Form: Sonnet

If you are a homosexual

...Man to man
If you are a homosexual
You need to change—
I present a 'contextual' analysis
Based on a pretext and a post-text!

Your emotion is based on something
God 'your Source did not design...
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Categories: pretext, men,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAlong Dry Path

...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid? 
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories: pretext, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeneath the veil of twilight, time lets its shadow fall

...Beneath the veil of twilight, time lets its shadow fall,
It trickles like quicksilver through the unseen hourglass,
The silent ticking follows us, we, the children of earth,
Try to halt it with th...
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Categories: pretext, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte

...A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte 

specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
but proceeded as this scribe 
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less...
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Categories: pretext, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYour fingers struggle to follow the path, to fiercely pluck the pretext

...Your fingers struggle to follow the path, to fiercely pluck the pretext,
As though my being were trying to catch the last drops of your receding waters.
You leave our novels under the clear summer ...
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Categories: pretext, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano

...When you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano,
It was simpler to become a rock, not letting yourself be unraveled by the waves of myopia.
After seasons died in your arms, resigned ...
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Categories: pretext, song,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlirtation a Freed Verse

...FLIRTATION
a  pretext
for
the  glamorous
renaissance
across
the  core
of romantic love
swathed in
the symbolic
changing
&swaggering
in a suggestive
state
emblematic
of the
 vanity
so...
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Categories: pretext, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Techniques

...Themed based
takes the place
of sponsorship strategies
a consortium of things
that angles on the
possibilities
Wrong choices
selfish motives
and disobedience
are key points to began
instruc...
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Categories: pretext, business, community, education, film,
Form: Bio

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