Short Façade Poems

Silence
Thy Façade is Undone...

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Shattered, broken sky

Fragments forming a façade 

The stars spilling out...

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the image I see
reflections of a façade
believed to be true
by those that I meet
you should have looked much deeper...

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No one sees what lies behind
This façade, I hold all the cards
I am invisible, I am invincible
I am anonymous...

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“Why did you stop shaving, Jesse?”
It is my attempt to project a façade
of masculinity in the face of rejection
by the opposite sex...

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Look beyond this thick façade,
You'll find four seasons in my soul,
But take away a piece of Winter
And you'll leave me cut, unwhole....

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That which is us,
Is not truly us,
It is just a façade,
A charade for the public,
A mask until our true selves,
Are revealed and we are free....

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I flouted my knowledge ostentatiously,
But I found no one cared what I came to be.
It’s not the façade they wanted to see,
They just wanted to see; the real me....

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The
Façade
That you see
Is not at all
What you think it is.
I have become expert
In hiding my true feelings
So that the turmoil in my heart
And in my head does not show at all
In the neutral expression on my face....

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Be on your own, no charade
False protection in façade

Your lies are smart, the way you move
Many follow this belief in you

Places you go, once imagined
Reality hurts in the depth and fathom

It’s hard to hate someone you love...

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I saw a façade
And knew it was never God
To treat me that way

Talents have mastered
In a form that was bastard
Had been a hazard

Form was bastardized
When is when I realized
Was Trumpatized (Traumatized.)

Jim Horn...

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Discernment shock breaks the mirror
shattered elusive façade flung in debris
deluding mask creates chameleon entity
an obsessive act of metamorphic alchemy.

July 16, 2021
Brian Strand's Contest : A Brian Strand 4 Or 5 Line...

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Overbearing obsessions drown all rational thoughts 
Each shutter of my camera brings a high that cannot be bought 
My fragile façade flourishes with every snap I take 
Curating a delightful delusion, carefully crafting the perfect fake...

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A smile on my face
But tears held back 
Inside of me
Sadness attacks. 

A happy façade
But unhappy sigh
Everyone says
Big girls don’t cry 

So I put on my smile
And hold in the tears
That’s how it’s been 
Throughout all the years...

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Im not one
to die for
but to die
10,000 times

You don’t know me
I don’t know myself
Maybe one day we will

Will know

Theres nothing to know
Theres more to me
than myself
Theres more to you
than you

Behind this façade
We are...

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Doubt 
From her
Poisoned 
Everything
Death set in
Men of tears the
Blamelessly leave
Loss of souls praying
Kings of Feelings trapped 
The cleverly
Changing façade, 
Die to self, 
One forcing  
Love her 
Clasped 
Guise 

8/11/16...

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Love
That mummified enigma
Bearing bones and thorns
To all who would taste of its blood

Love
That hideous façade
Which appeals to men
But at its tail dwells tears

Love
Is a biased inferno
Which leaves unsinged a few
And most burnt....

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Do you claim I’m dumb
Crazy and stupid
I have marveled this
With skeptical eyes
I see through façade

Dumb is not me
I have smarts true
Can see over
And beyond you

Proof in need
I can show
My good grades

My heart
Mind true

Smart

Russell Sivey...

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Downtown there once was a crafty lawyer
Egged his clients to be straight-faced liar
Facing the judge they fumbled
Grilled, façade of lies crumbled
He lost all cases, made money each year.

January 9, 2019
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10
Checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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Ornate guises fill the halls,
Baroque, Venetian—timeworn
In courtyards of seduction,
A wealthy heir plays the game .
Dainty farm lass in torn mask
Becomes this  man’s easy quest

Her façade, a thieving ploy. 


Contest: SEVENBITS for nette onclaud
3 Oct 2017...

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They turned their lives into a façade
To keep fooling those on the outside
Sadly, choosing to live such a lie
As if this would erase everything
The mountain still sits for all to see
Who open their eyes and choose to hear
The words, as they echo from the top

Heidi Sands

8/6/17...

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Love Song                                                                            

Leaving façade 
of dead shadows,
And fading memory 
of past failures,
I dream about tomorrow.
I will sail again to it
In a boat of forgiveness,
Singing about 
Everlasting love....

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She walked into the family reunion with pink and purple hair.
And enough green eye liner to challenge the fur on a boar.
Who is that with fake eyelashes? Someone asked me.
I turned and recognized her under the spider façade.
She is my granddaughter, I told them. Wondering who they were....

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Listen to poem:

Eyewitness Passersby
David J Walker

Remembering the publicness 
of this space
I am a guest 
	I am a ghost 
And will leave without touching
	The façade that appears as my image 

What will the eyewitness say
	How will the witness portray
What was meant to be 
The variant me 
Passing by...

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Impersonal
Superficial
A tribute to a man
I hardly knew
An impractical joker
An inclement clown
Overly cautious
To never reveal
Anything of himself
Hiding under the façade
Of inappropriate humor
An awkward conundrum
A mystery man



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 1, 2019...

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