Short Masquerade Poems

This human life
men in black masquerades
finish here....

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Hey I can see you
throughout
a fake biased masquerade....

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Spooks are here dancing
The masquerade of Autumn
Happy Halloween...

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The DNA of Illusion
 — is Time

(Thank You, Leon: January, 2025) 
...

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festival of blooms
host trees shed masquerade for
tasty fruit morsels...

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old bones shimmy
in the pumpkin scented breeze
clowns and witches race...

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Contrived compliances 
Willow the wisp in the winds
this our masquerade...

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Once plucked it ceased being a Rose... once the last petal fell the masquerade ended....

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Questions…
the measure of uncertainty

Answers
—divine masquerade

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)...

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Dying,
   behind the mask you wear

 Victim,
   —of your own masquerade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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A heart extended
An open invitation
To a masquerade
Where lovers dance and become
Something worse or much better...

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Death we have
It all
Wearing your 
Masquerade to 
The ball
Why does
Death brings
The illusion...

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Life is a masquerade
coming into this 
world not knowing
who is who or what
is what, but the
beauty of it is the
mystery...

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You pretend,
         To be,
             Everything to me!
         I pretend,
              To 
                         Believe it!...

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I once needed a lawyer,
for the problem I had with my employer
the promises made
were all a masquerade
dim lawyer, turned out to be a naysayer...

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Good and bad are truisms…
  a qualitative masquerade

Ideology trumping feeling
  —in flashes of joy and pain

(Las Vegas: January 23, 2016)...

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Stain glass masquerade 
                                    each face a different mask
                                         lost in reflection...

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 Should my masquerade mask fall
Conscious suppression exposed,
Naked as the day I was born
Thrust into life's Mardi Gras...

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Masquerade of a News Man

Brian Williams
As NBC anchor made millions.
Suspended while lying during a muse;
Credibility unnecessary to move to Fox News....

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What's the truth
     Carnival?
     general revelry, or
     Bal masqué...?
     tumultuous joy  ? 
     Masquerade Ball ...!
     Fake wellfare... !?...

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Vivacious urgency amidst the masquerade of faces
Intoxicating senses, driving madness to insanity.
Intense betrayals soundlessly distract, unmasking secrets....

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Worries etched in despair and blood.
Outrageous attempts to masquerade us.
Righteously hidden in the wrongs.
Drowning out the truth.
Significantly affecting youthful minds....

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The masquerade party theme was to show
What your love life is like for all to know
One man without blinkin'
Said, "I am Abe Lincoln,"
"My last four scores were seven years ago!"...

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                                        pomegranate skies
                                      cathedral of paradise -
                                     masquerade performed...

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Little Red-Cap, I can see
no wolf would ever bother thee.
You'd not buy the masquerade
of his best laid plans, misplayed.
As I'm not the lupine brand,
would you gently take my hand?...

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