Short Masquerades Poems

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

Read More

The enemy of my enemy…
  often masquerades as my friend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2014)...

Read More

The enemy of my enemy often masquerades,
  —as my friend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2014)...

Read More

Remember the horror of AIDS in the '80's
    And all those who've died from COVID, of course

  My doctor, God bless him, still worries about both
    The sign on his door ~ Mask or AIDS...

Read More

Playing with fire

...like night magicians
playing with fire till dawn
needn't tell but crowd
masquerades seeking sources
to revitalize their wands.


For: Poet Destroyer's "Playing With Fire" contest....

Read More

A fake science cornered, uncover as a genuine
Realm of human and sentient creatures
Heating religion, falsify and refute

Mosque, church, synagog, temple, and somehow
Go(o)d activities could be explanatory
As the universe has a finite ( . Y . )...

Read More

Makeup never hides the truth
the camera sees it all
Sharply focused through the pain
each mask a futile pall

As clowns embrace the actor’s fears
in painted frozen smiles
The farce goes on in word and song
—a masquerades denial

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

Read More

A nuisance of echoes
a state resonates with
I don't know whether it
is nothing
claiming too to bake
cakes 
listen now to masquerades
repeating nightmares gossips
as some things
those too impersonating
the world's times
on clocks
ahh! they make noise
perhaps to reap heaps....

Read More

I piece together the day so far
As I stare up at the moon
Strikingly reminiscent of the stained glass
The bones of Christ
Translucent upon the cross
Seeing through
But not beyond
Like the mist on these mountains
Clouded thoughts in my mind
Forever lost in a half formed memory
That masquerades as a premonition...

Read More

"Sinless Moon"


Moon illuminates
dark shadowy silhouettes
clandestine coteriere' *


Moon anticipates
lovers secret rendezvous
bramble bush conspires ...


Moonlight masquerades
expose' of evening sin
Full Moon sips mirage

*For Joe Maverick's Haiku Contest ...
*coteriere denotes a set as a couple....

Read More

each withered layer unveils
one drowning fear after another-
barren souls seep becoming
an intimate revelation-
stark nudity becomes 
her with each separation;
all-consuming sapphires
fill her soul with desires,
and all ebon masquerades
create a world that fades…
into an abyss of nothingness-
where only seclusion cascades



January 24, 2017...

Read More

True meaning, the true Universe
Beyond all masquerades and interpretations
Is hiding in solitude
Lingering playfully in the quiet mind
Consisting of...
The gaps between stars
On a cold, clear December night
And you, awestruck
Transfixed by myriad stars and nebulae
Oblivious to the gaps,
The binding nothingness in between
In which the true Universe remains unseen....

Read More

a poem
pestering a mind to post
& this inside is like hills
on volcanic reactions
or the tremulous voices
of nine masquerades
from the nine villages 
of one clan - 
tumultuous
quivering 
fearfully appeasing
headed for a fiery fire
kindled by unseen
ancestors
hidden by these roots
the roots of my blood
the blood of my flesh
the flesh of my clan
anchored by niger
& her cyclic maidens...

Read More

Valentines may come and go
The love that lingers and shines
To the contentness which won't die
Blankets hearts of loneliness.

Today was yesterday
As dark is never really gone
Through the eyes of believers
Who will come out strong?

Valentines is not love
For love masquerades into tomorrows
Skies falls, blanketed hearts bleed
As painted valentines shines fiction
The mind searches for belief....

Read More

Artistic ovation so eloquently delivered
Scantly clad ambers of happiness
Explosion of animosity
Despair spoils the spectacular decadence
Brazen Amethysts delight
But darkened geodes decays my lullaby
And Leaves a angry corpse
The ghost of yesterday is the entity of tomorrow
It follows behind me and masquerades as my friend
But the foe seeps out and reveals himself
Deadly clout, I am powerless....

Read More

Lies lies lies
you can't see it
in my eyes because
I am the master of
disguise.

They say playing
these masquerades hurt people.
You think I like keeping these
things from you?

I love people. 
but to me disappointing them
is worse than the hurt
if they knew the truth.

Sometimes I need white lies
because I know the pain that
would ensue if the truth  
were to be bestowed upon 
some people....

Read More

You are mysterious, magical
convoluted in many ways.
Your surge, your sheer desire
to perfect a force of nature far greater

At times languid and sheepish to the naked eye
You stand
Unwavering, indestructable , at the brink
Where the vast expanse of steel and ice
Dissect through frozen waters that divde 
two nations.

The toll of winter's grounding 
Masquerades its timely deed
To bend to your command....

Read More

The itch to love 
and satiate pride
swallowed too long stifles
breath
without emancipation
A tragic capitulation to self

Pride, perhaps acerbic,
leaves morsels to ruminate
and loves to regurgitate
coy ceramic dalliances
and Venusian masquerades
Masked in smiles
And toxic

This love, 
These loose granite memories
Ductile innocents
And hasty lulls
These shining sunsets 
And supernovas
Must rest.
...

Read More

 Wind-driven, deceptive, mysterious,
cries vixen's pulsating, debauchery
with haunting arias, mesmerizing!
The lighthouse, fearlessly, captivated,
by siren's symphonic orchestrations 
shines brighter, exclaiming calamity!
She cautions vigilant navigators...
fog's mirage masquerades mortality!..


______________________________
Inspired by Nette's Contest: The Lighthouse
9/23/14  By Carrie Richards...

Read More

Stephen Hawking

His legacy is large
as he leaves his 
life-sustaining technology
behind..
He leaves behind also
this quote:
"The greatest enemy of
knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge."

Knowledge 
often masquerades
as wholeness
claiming more than
its limited span..
Knowledge as thought
appears in our Self
is made of Self
but cannot know
the infinite Self...

Our Thanks, Stephen Hawking......

Read More

As the day ends,as the light fades
Alone on the shore,I'll sit counting stars
Watching the evening sky, as the night masquerades,
Through ebb tide to high tide exemplars.
Seeking questions of life,.. sometimes lofty,
And replaying the first cut of my scars.
As I fall into a dream state ever softly



contest Titles
9/18/15
As the light fades
I'll sit counting stars
Through ebb tide to high tide
Seeking questions of life
Softly...

Read More

You are called faceless
      BECAUSE YOU ARE SHAMELESS
      YOUR MURDER AND MAIM
       SENT TO THE INNOCENTS
          
       GROWTH OF GERMS
       INDEED, YOUR INTERESTS
      TO GOD, YOU WEAR FEARLESS
       TO EARTH, YOU WEAR BOKO HARAM
    
       YOUR PENULTIMATE RETREAT
        INDEED, MEMORABLE HEART HEAT
        FORWARD YOUR RETREAT
        TO THE SPEARHEAD OR THE GIANTS
         OR, DIVULGE YOUR IMAGE
        NOT GENTLE BOKO HARAM...

Read More

writing something new
just a bit askew
asking for the given
taking each strike with a smile
taste nothing but bile
numb comes after the pain
madness masquerades as the sane
i took a tear
and placed it in a box
buried it in the deepest loch
took a sigh
and pushed it in a balloon
sent it to the moon
took a broken heart
and ripped my life apart
Depression flattened paper thin
dust footprints leaving
merest trace
a smile lost within this face...

Read More

Here they partake                     
Here they undertake                                                        
The populace for claimed change
But no valuable range
         
The undertakers often masquerade
The masquerades parade
In-advance will in will
          
The will unveils self-interests
For youth no job invests
For populace no dining table

For Gerinians maladies incurable  
V.I.P Gerinians are equal
In Gerinian all are not equal...

Read More

Brass that masquerades as gold,
Fit for any photo-fit, a counterfeit concealed.
I know, I know you,
Hiding naive amber under the Sun,
When you need not be devalued.

Glass that tries a diamond life
Won't shine the same despite its cut.
Not fit for their crowns-
The product of sand and not finer science-
But you don't need to be.

Gold is silent; brass can sing,
Your panes aren't made from diamond rings.
To change the way you were when born
Defames the way I love your form....

Read More