Short Belie Poems

his warm eyes
   cruel heartlessness
         may belie...

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sly shadows belie
	early emergence of Spring ~
		Punxsutawney sleeps...

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Calm, composed exteriors
   Belie agenda-driven minds

Words painstakingly chosen
   Cover well-padded behinds...

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Is this a lie?
Do you believe the truth, in fact?
Is this a lie?
Substantially, you do belie
the whale of a tale is fact-packed.
The honest truth can be sidetracked.
Is this a lie?
...

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Royal Blood communioned green on field such
Thou enemy belie within
Praying upon that which you, your hopes pin
One must plunder treasure's sin
If the new world genesis is ever to begin...

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What, who, or where
 the sages portend 

What, who, or where
the shamans belie

What, who, or where
 the scholars defend 

What, who, or where
—not questioning why

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)...

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Bemasked

Behind a happy mask
Beneath your guise of joy
Belie sweet wounded eyes
Betrothed to dreams unlived
Belayed for these few hours
Because you smile tonight 


27 Apr 2014 - Dave Mohn
Let's Pleiades Contest...

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Memories so vivid
     Feelings so deep
Visceral flashbacks
     Sparked by a song

The essence of time
     Transcended
For a moment
     For just a moment

Is life linear?
     Feelings belie
Back to what is perceived
     As reality...

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Man-made Climate change now dogma, must not question nor belie
'Debate is over! close down research! it is heresy to deny'
If that's what we now call science, we've caught an intellectual cold
For it's
"Phoney baloney, plastic banana, good time rock-n-roll"...

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What you ask me to deny,
I in many ways affirm

The truth will not belie
what your apprehension spurns

Believing in myself
and the voice that speaks within

I cast new seeds into the air
—and beckon the four winds

(Haverford College: January, 2021)...

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The evening sky aglow with color
beauty incarnate to the human eye.

         In it's mist death awaits
         as the damage we belie.

             With sins of greed
       the poisons build on high.

       Will we wake and recover
   or wait and see our planet die?...

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Self

In winters cold I found you
lost too long among the seasons
thin cold crystal dawn you arrived
frost drawn breath revealed you.

Our parting of ways now healed
belie the part of me I have denied
your face changed by the years
my past and present self now healed

Stephen (Stoic)...

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lack of impression
          may belie lone depression 
               use ones discretion 
            with gentle intercession 
        love hope and kind expression


QUIN-TO your five line Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand 21/11/2020
               Hororable mention...

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world's trouble

dark sky...

depression subtle

i deny...

emotions muddle

i sigh...

thoughts befuddle

i belie...

tears puddle

i cry...


God subtle

I comply...

Divine cuddle

I rely...

Believer's huddle

I ally...

Blessings double

Blue sky......

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PATRIOTISM 

Red, white and blue ribbons with stars
surrounding my head, hand over heart

Kneeling in the Catholic pew, steepled hands
point upwards to my allegiance start

Stars kneel not to pray but to belie their point
of origin, where amber grain waves part

11/3/2017
Modern Sijo...

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twitches belie pressure, nerve endings fray ~ in shock from the exposé 

love child appears out of the blue ~ dna sticks tight, unlike cheap screw

damage done, tied is the splice ~ heat of the moment has balls in a vice

prenuptial’s void, tightening grip ~ busted now, far too late for that snip


By
David Kavanagh...

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Time,let me know pure feelings before I die
Passion and truth’s masquerade, belie
Give life to love, beyond barren silence 
Break the guarded mould of indifference.

Gift all that a serene heart does aspire
Display my genuine loyalty and desire,
My truths exposed, enchanted I’ll reside
In love, eclipsing lunar force of ebb-tide....

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Shifty eyes belie camouflaged avarice, seeking a higher share of family inheritance by employing specious logic, jockeying for an advantage. The seemingly dreamy elder sips coffee, nodding in consent.

discerning eye knows
recognising wayward ways
soul smile indulgent

09-August-2021

Kindness poetry contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh...

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Magnificent forms in a world that once was black
Are bright shining orbs. There's nothing they lack
Revealing to me that life holds abundant treasure
Beyond comprehension, outdistancing all measure
Lending me chiseled vision, as through a cat's eye
Exquisite beauty is found in the clearest night sky
Stars are wondrous gifts; a fact no one can belie...

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The giant blue and green dragonfly, 
with its broken wing,
tries madly to escape 
its silver cage.

The poor old thing doesn't belie
escape from its sturdy ring
is an impossible reshape
of its once golden age.

I turn away with a sigh,
realizing with a sharp sting,
that I, too, am caught in a dreamscape
of impotent rage.


Image: Chetta Achara...

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The pain of feeling helpless is so great
     It pricks the heart like needles in the snow
If I could cure the sadness that you feel
     With love, pure joy is all you’d ever know

Though you may smile, your eyes belie your grin
     Their hazel beauty now a black tableau
I too can feel the sting of your torment
     It pricks my heart like needles in the snow...

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I started with superheroes,
Which led me to memes
Then on to fan-art
With superhero themes.
I laughed at a squirrel
Dressed as Thor
I clicked for smiles
I clicked on for more.
My clicks led to quotes
And questions of the heart
And the superheroes faded
And introspection began to start.
Oh the joy of a costume
The bright colored lie
Just a few clicks away from
The truths they belie....

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Smiling Belly Dancer ……..by Peter Onyancha

Belly dancer
You are another one!
Where do you mine your smile?
Beaming brackets, my my!
This is it, my spirit, speak it
Or belie – are you sly?
The tune is gone – but the charm!
The eyes grow with them and glow
You Smile and I blush – 
How simply, you truly pinch me 
Somewhere deep in the rib!
Look away, from my way
You bully belly dancer...

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World's troubles reflected in a dark sky
Days and nights now blurred fears quantify
My ears pick up artillery in war cry
Depression rolls in I try to deny
All my thoughts grow befuddled I belie
Tears held in so many puddles I cry
Emotions all muddled up in deep sighs
My eyes hollow my heart beats amplify
On divine intervention I rely! 

2.11.22
Contest Name: Monomixorhyme
Sponsor: Hilo Poet...

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Ashby v White, if applied right.' With the script i do not
Comply' at the ballot will belie.) Remove misogeny from
On high..Why choose to be opressed?  Once this reality
Is addressed.' Other lands should follow suit? Then your
Fate will not be moot.' (The no longer to be trusted)
Shall then really find they're busted.' So be ready from this
Day give them the boot.' Send them on their un-merry way.!...

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