Short Pretence Poems

haughty heart hopping
here and there… posing,
 yet within it’s hoping...

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Harmless
as a rock dove,
yet shrewd and worldly wise-
but forswearing pretext,pretence 
and lies....

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David Herbrt Lawrence
novelist poet sans pretence
Multi talebted &prolific
lasting legacy in th erotic...

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In that lonely, quiet hour,
Alone with just your soul;
Guile has no place, nor power,
And pretence, none at all!

~Mel...

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blue eyes
golden  hair
white skin
even
christmas 
is
corrupted
i like the holidays though
it is fun songs cakes friends
presents presence pretence...

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Let me lay on the rays 
of the moon in pretence
Let me pay the price
while you rock through

the stars in haunt 
for a response.
No taunt can
make me leave this spot....

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lies
and excuses
await:
narcissism
         sees itself...
no one else
exists:
ego
emits
pre-occupation-
admits
nothing
up close
myopia
        passes by
without seeing
the obvious......

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Should I pretend
for pretence sake?

For the secrecy
behind closed and cold doors,
seems to be killing me more.

Silence, is torture,
unforgiving, cruel,
to long now, to long,
your isolated fool....

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the natural glow of unfeigned traits of the imperfect
outshines fake glittering pretence of the so-called perfect


Date: 09/27/2021
Your Best Rhyming Couplet Poetry Contest
Sponsor: L MILTON HANKINS...

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No Laughing matter

Was Spike right?
And does the devil have all the best songs?

German humour certainly is no laughing matter!
Nobody dances to hymns let’s not pretend! 

Spikes dead!
But the pretence carries on!...

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He met an angel at a cross junction,
and asked him "where can I find a place
to find peace, without pretence that I
have peace?"

The angel smiled, and touched his chest.
"The Way to Heaven is within you...." he replied....

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Shuffling on, lone and chill
Their cry by night
Above me, does heighten
This doleful plight.

And when, sleepless in bed
That far refrain
For lost love's lament, heard
With no pretence
Know I, by experience
Twill haunt again....

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Don't starve me of your heart beat
and call it silence.
Don't starve me of your soul's heat
and call it suspense.
Don't starve me of your sweet glow
and call it absence.
My dear, you are all I need to know,
preen not in pretence....

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dense clouds
gives way
to acidic rain
i am really hungry
standing in the dock
to hell without fire
priests popes and saints
are still in purgatory
half way to heaven
blessed are the poor
we like hell
no pretence and
fire in our hearts...

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Wet plates of brainy salad
stalling amongst stale French Verbs
The severed heads of Queens
rot alongside the Thames
Sullen rain for the beavered
stuttering in its grief
The pretence of concentration
gapples with flames fury
amongst dusty books...

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A viper
Lethal
Fatal
Mortal
Pretending to be friendly
While nocuous
A masked personality
Full of pretence
Grinning face
But scowling and frowning
Hidden hatred
Veiled by a false smile
Indeed;
It is a friendly-traitor. 

Drencho POET Loads....

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He looks like a good person
from the physical appearance, 
little do you know he's poison 
wearing a garment of pretence 

He pretends to be a friend 
who will always help in danger 
though his mission always stand 
to devour you up like a monster...

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If not truth

Then what

Pretence and distance

Simply…..not a lot!


Insincerity and dishonesty

Echoed through hollow words

Spoken 

Though never truly heard


Trust diminished

Destroyed by lies

Perpetual doubt 

Relationship demise

...

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S mile and laugh often
E njoy beauty, where and when
R eject deceit and all pretence
E arn respect of fellow men-
N ever worry what others have done
I n faith trust in God's own Son-
T hen leaving this world a better place
Y ou can look your maker ..face to face...

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Elaborate the plan
Enticing by pretence
Exclusive in deceit
Extols hypocrisy.
Each step has been rehearsed
Except for masquerade
Excessively disguised.


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Author: Paul Callus ~ 27 April 2014
Contest: Let’s Pleiades
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Placing: 7th...

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Memory lane



As I walk down the memory lane,
plateaus of emotions whine and wane,
Grace on face stays
while smile deepens
and wrinkles sprinkle
the essence of pretence in time.



Written March 19, 2017
Dr. Upma Sharma, India.

Entered into "Easy" contest by SKAT A...

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Pretence at sacrifice concealed in a translucent veil as inverted altruism soon comes unstuck as its perfidy wears thinner and thinner to engender amazement, bewilderment, embarrassment and bemusement. 

Shunt aside gifts to the
ego you flatter day and 
night to blight your own life....

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My body crave for love
like a beautiful coloured dove
My heart yearn without end
and all years, I pretend
I'll die If I suppress
my yearning heart in distress
My heart is driven wild
Not slave to pretence anymore
And now, I won't ignore
Love that grows like child



30/3/2019...

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The ending of a year

New Year Eve 
Never fail to 
Make me depressed
Tonight I will go  
To a restaurant 
Eat overpriced food 
And keep up pretence
At midnight 
Clink of glasses
And bleating as 
The dumb sheep we are
We have survived 
This year too
In a crazy world heading 
Towards war...

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re-post inspired by Kims contest

S mile and laugh often
E njoy beauty, where and when
R eject deceit and all pretence
E arn respect of fellow men-
N ever worry what others have done
I n faith trust in God's own Son-
T hen leaving this world a better place
Y ou can look your maker ..face to face...

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