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Public Eye Poems - Poems about Public Eye

The Introduction

...Introducing my dual identities:
To the public eye I am Jonnie Jupiter, the easy-going, polite, kind, thoughtful human being who is larger than life itself
Behind closed doors to "family" members, I...
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Categories: public eye, 9th grade, age, black
Form: Free verse

To Be An Artist

...Solemnly I sit in silence, slaving over scant sculptures
I begin to carve away at the silky slip
my tools gliding skillfully 
Although at a glance, I may seem serene
inside there is a savage stor...
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Categories: public eye, art, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberStage Right

...Ahead and to my right
I have you in my sight 
I like to watch you move
You lock in with the groove
I think of things sometimes 
Then write them down in rhymes
Not for the public eye
One read a...
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Categories: public eye, desire, for her, i
Form: Rhyme

The Price we Pay

...Pain that pains the pain that pains
Hate that conceives the hate, that we hate
Loneliness that engulfs the already lonely loneliness
Regrets upon regrets, regretting that we regret

Could be the...
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Categories: public eye, emotions, introspection, philosophy, relationship,
Form: Free verse

The Wicked and The Wick and my humble Abode

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Ripping nostalgia right out of my veins
Crippled curtains living in psycho domains
We demolished this city not just this city the World
I can't live slow enough to get to pretend
People go craz...
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Categories: public eye, betrayal, character, drink, fire,
Form: Ballad



Public eye

...In the public eye
Of social gatherings,
She is found
To always be smiling.

Her energy is warm
Where her voice is quiet.
She doesn’t always speak
And appreciates their understanding.

She i...
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Categories: public eye, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe sucks the oxygen from the room

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Where ever she goes the cameras loom.
They're on to the scent of her perfume.
She sucks the oxygen from the room..
Forever in the public eye, all daily movements scrutinized.
She must dot all x...
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Categories: public eye, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Rhetoric

...You stand up in the great hall waiting for a brawl; you stand up in the great hall waiting for a miracle to pull you out of the ditch. 

Words of wisdom buried in your head lying in swamps in the h...
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Categories: public eye, betrayal, business, celebrity, community,
Form: Narrative

I Dont Believe It

...A lot of the time

Or in some cases 

When a well be known to us

Some what familiar to us kind of person

Due to being in the public eye

Gets exposed

Or caught up in some

Kind of sc...
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Categories: public eye, allusion, dark, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeneath the Rainbow Bright

...more to the rainbow glow beneath its bright ~ shadowed to the public eye 

February 28, 2023...
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Categories: public eye, allegory, inspirational love, loneliness,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberClerihew Bly

...US   poet Robert Bly
brought Neruda's verse to the public eye
His himself with poetry 'politique'
of Minnesota made him tick...
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Categories: public eye, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

God Shook His Head Today

...God Shook his Head Today

In the public eye you spew lies from the table cloth, with fake humanitarianism.

A sort of façade one puts on at a mardi gras parade; whimsical and alluring.

Yet, yo...
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Categories: public eye, angst, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Parking Lot

...Late at night as I disappear from the public eye of the world 
and leave behind all my worries and fears, 
I take to the sky like a silent kite soaring in silence towards the stars 
enteri...
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Categories: public eye, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Hunger Pangs

...It was unnerving
a  growling demon of
deprivation, 
an
enemy that lurks
in shadows, but 
the eyes don't lie
silver spoons
do tarnish
with lack of use

they're tucked
away from public eye
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Categories: public eye, allusion, black african american,
Form: Lyric

Unfollow

...Rush
To take the prize
As their own
Making themselves worthy

Anything less
Cringeworthy
Dirt to public eye

Being on the rise
All the way up
Never give way to lose

But how high
How lo...
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Categories: public eye, character, culture, environment, future,
Form: Free verse

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