Short Masquerading Poems

The enemy of my enemy 
—masquerading as my friend

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Black buzzing wasp landed on my shoulder
I moved amazingly fast
Masquerading horsefly...

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Masquerading
as though
fashioned from cloisonné;
cocksure pheasants striking arrogant
poses...

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All I want
is a lie
the bigger sin
for parading
a lie
before your eyes
and masquerading it
as truth....

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Disoriented
Demented souls
Masquerading in flesh
Slumped  in dank doorways
Marinated in spirits
Soaked in piss....

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We torment our fellow sufferers
To please the sharer of the Rabbit
In the desperate hope
That our masquerading
Will warrant us a piece
Of the craved Meat!...

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A masquerader, masquerading so.  
As though a fellow friend, fog of pretend.  
Ourselves we must first apprehend so.  
Personal battles, freedom earthly end....

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Bad prose masquerading as poetry,
darkness posing as light

Words stacked on top of words uttered in vain
—narcissists delight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Bad prose masquerading as poetry,
darkness posing as light

Words stacked on top of words uttered in vain
—narcissists delight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Your tenebrous soul, masquerading as love, haunts these comments all.

Oh, Lord save my soul, that my eyes, on your words, do not befall!


September 5, 2019


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One tired heart
Dreams and a soul

Eyes that hide tears
And conceal the sadness

Silently lingering pain
Masquerading as a memory

And half forgotten hopes
Lay scattered in the dust...

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Masquerading couple did the cha cha cha
They were here for New Orlean’s Mardi Gras.
We saw them coming and we gave them a gentle wave.
Their waltz was original, inspired, and extremely brave....

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A young lad masquerading as an old geezer
Looking for a lady who owns a mature beaver
One with mucho bucks
Still able to cluck
And willing to take pity on a geezer still eager...

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Let’s all just be average,
no rich and no poor

Excuses our quotient,
single digits the score

Masquerading as fairness,
our heritage veiled

In lock step we march,
voices mute—nothing hailed

(The New Room: February, 2021)...

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May is a merry time,
masquerading in rhyme.
May Day will have begun
month long of having fun.
Most will on Mother's Day,
mothers with homage pay.
Merry the month of May.

By: Joyce Johnson 

4/23/14

For Nette's contest "Let's Pleiades"...

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Conversation has sadly ran dry 
All hope is fading 
We barely speak to one another 
Girl, why are we masquerading?
We need to open up
This eliminates the bad air
Obscurity has reared its ugly head 
These dark clouds need to disappear...

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A Chest there did inter a King
Her grave was never marked –

A body packed as Arrows – Down –
In worse – A Common Bark

No Greener Sleeves – than Envy
Where ripped apart by Dogs

Owned masquerading Saviors
With faces meant for Frogs....

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UNKNOWN STILLNESS 2


To know that control
Is but a sweeping touch of fear
From the monkey mind
That skims and flirts from
A thousand passing thought patterns
Masquerading as truth

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
01 October 2019
Singapore...

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Costumes we wear
Tell but a small tidbit
Of our story

Facial masks
Easily masquerading
Keeping our facade to ourselves

Enthusiasm however cannot be hidden
Generates optimism, inspires hope
To those who are ready to take off their masks and live...

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Black hair swooning, 
Red lips, fair skin seducing
Your attentions
And your love
Deadly
Lingering
Like a shadow
Yet all I see
Is a ghost masquerading
In a false shell of beauty
“Eternally mine” she whispers 
But only in death
Am I eternally yours....

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That’s the way life is…
greatness wrapped in a tattered box,
lined with regret
compliments laced with a negative refrain,
hiding the truth
Fear and delight masquerading as one, 
chanting behind the mask
—that’s the way life is

(Dreamsleep: July, 2019)...

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The duplicity of solitude,
— thinker and thought

The lies we tell ourselves, 
  hoping never to get caught

In darkness, living behind walls 
  that conceal

Our thoughts from our feelings, 
—masquerading as real

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2011)...

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RETURNING HOME

Two years now
Have toiled in this garden
Searching for her
Waiting and wailing for her return
With tears and thorns tumbling my knuckles
With agonies growing daily
With hope masquerading
I shall return home
I shall wait no longer
For the stolen ribs.

Awoh Kingsley....

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~ Savage Social Commentary
      Masquerading as Wide-eyed
           Innocent Limerick ~  


To think in Italian's 'com-pu-ta-re'
Which rhymes, I guess, with 'to fly' - 'vo-la-re'
  Compute the cost of thinking
  You'll end up all night blinking
At Pacman on extinct-squished Ataris...

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The version of history we were taught in school has been heavily revised
in order to favor our nation's agenda while hiding all of its crimes,
fostering an unrealistic sense of false patriotism
used to manufacture our allegiance again and again
to a corporite entity masquerading as our government....

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