Short Disguise Poems

Short Disguise Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Disguise by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Disguise by length and keyword.


Weasel

The sneaky, slinky weasel
Is weaselly recognised … 

But stoats are stoatily different … 
They’re ermine in disguise!
Form: Epigram


Premium Member Clerihew Lichtenstein

Comic book style Roy Lichtenstein
made Pop Art a genre to mine
His usp easy to recognise
no attempt to dress or disguise
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Eclipse

anticipating 
darkness of solar eclipse
four minutes of night
shadow will never disguise 
madness of men on the earth
Form: Tanka

Lucy Furr

Morning of the Resurrection
Caused a bit of introspection
The first to rise
Was in disguise
How did she escape detection?
Form: Limerick

Covert Assignment

Spy game continues
Disguise deceit cheat
Expose leak tweet
Do did done
Under the sheet.
Note. Everyone deserves defense.
Form: Rhyme


Braveheart

The power in his words,
the love in his eyes

The truth in his heart
—no time can disguise

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member No Disguise

A mind highly organized
    wears no disguise

  Its desk, on the surface, squeaky clean
    thus illumined ~ What's it mean
Form: Couplet

Shame

Sometimes your best friends are really 
enemies in disguise.
Knocking down your pride,
breaking you down
til-
you're nothing.
Form:

Tried To Disguise You

Tried to disguise you
As something else
Something that you’re not
But that was all a fallacy
Be what you want
But do it for me
Form:

Premium Member Cletihew Barnes

Dorset poet Wiilam Barnes they do say
a C of E rector in his day
Determined to de-saxonise
clothed his verse in dialectic disguise
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Biden's Hymn

Caught in this web of lies
where volume may the truth disguise
will Union o’er two hundred years fail
can reason over rant prevail?
Form: Couplet

In Sheep's Clothing

Morons and liars,
all facts to mislead

Their wool to disguise
—the truth unperceived   

(The Mainstream Media: November, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Storm Is Abrewing

Storm is abrewing

Building up fiery hot air

Dragon in disguise

Flapping its green veiny wings

Making geese fly home backwards
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Soul of the Universe

Look
She stares
Do you see?
The face of humanity?
The universe wrapped in two eyes
The devil needs no spies
Humanity has no disguise

Your Grace

Your pain
Will not
Justify 
The 
Deseased ridden
Whole
That lies 
To 
The empty
Cold
Fear
Resting
On
The 
Putric
Disguise
Of 
Your 
Grace.
Form:

Diving For Pearls

There are truths in disguise
but only one truth

Between Heaven and Hell
— time hides the difference

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Premium Member I Cannot Paint Your Eyes

"When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes*" ~ til then you wear a disguise


* Amedeo Modigliani ~ Italian painter and sculptor
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member The Queen of Day

The Queen of Day in cool array
Dances her gay dewdrop ballet
Her morning rays light up the skies
She lifts the Lord of Night’s disguise.

Premium Member Reputation Proceeded Him

he believes his intent is camouflaged
his reputation proceeded him on social media
the women turn away in disgust
a transparent disguise

Premium Member Juice

J_Juice dilated
U_Under disguise as paci
I_In a sippy cup
C_Container used to 
E_Entertain  

And moms think they have them weaned
Form: Acrostic

Love Is

Love is hate in disguise
ready to victimize
holding you down
with twisting lies
love is your friend
until using you
has reached its end

The Basset Hound

Is it sorrow in canine disguise?  
Is it pity empathic and wise?
Or is it not either 
Nor sympathy neither
But hunger we see in its eyes?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member PAINTING most beautiful of Lies

Kees von Dongen
the most thoughtful of men
said 'painting is the most beautiful of lies'
though 'life models * he never tried to disguise'
art
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Watchful Eyes

     The cordiality of punctuality
        bespeaks hidden venality

      spooks watchful eyes
        over dour mustachioed disguise
Form: Couplet

An Angel In Disguise

Always wearing white,
Who knew she was an angel?
Her friends had no clue,
But one day she flew away,
Higher than than the planes she flies.
Form: Tanka

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