Short Pretenders Poems

“Long live rock & roll”
The king is dead! Pretenders
all. “Abdicated!”

© Harry J Horsman 1993...

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probiotic peoples
potentiate permafrost
personalities ply
pleasure pious pretenders
promoting primal puss...

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"When you live with a strong faith,
pretenders will vanish like a thief
in the night."

                   Ken Jordan...

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We act like mortals,
racing along the threads
of time like mice in granaries.
Infinity is deep within our DNA,
hoping that one day we will illuminate
everywhere we were afraid to see.......

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I ran over 
the edge of uncertainty

To convince you 
of what I didn’t know

Falling into the abyss 
of deception

Where the pretenders 
and charlatans go

(Dreamsleep: September, 2020)...

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fish eye lenses
pretenses 
all the worlds a stage
we are merely pretenders

triple entendre 
RUSH to see
the Moving Pictures

cry as they go by 
taken away 
from tonight's 
Limelight 


~JSL...

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they don't speak at night                                                                                                 conclusion animal not                                                                                                                    pretenders are lost...

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rambling down the street

click clack
clack click

follow the feet

walking tall 

towards the place
where all pretenders 
seek

click
clack

as the mirror reflects the 
mountain so steep 

clack
click

the peak so high
valley so low

rambling down the street,

to the 


end 


it's me I meet...

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All pretenders drowning slow,
lungs to fill with every breath

Casted off amongst the waves,
nothing spoken to redress

Treading water, spewing lies,
legs to flail in wasted states

Choking from each word unsaid
—trailing death within my wake

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Keep hitting the reset listening unto The Pretenders, learning to crawl...
Her beautiful Christie Hyde and two thousand miles it must be, Christmas
Time for love's children our heart's were singing; as this snow was falling down ?
Joyful their colours these leaves a crown cast of autumn's bossom; his solitary sea gull....

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They reject me to smile
because they are pretenders
who believe in lies,
and who love to gossip a lot.
When you try to call,
they can reject to pick
and when you ask why,
they can't tell the truth.
Sometimes when you call,
they switch the phones off
and others can say 
that we are not in Town,
and here where we are
life is too hard
as a trick to play on your rain....

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(Written  by  Sydney  Peck)

POETRY   IS  THE  WINDOW  OF  HONESTY


Let
My pen’s
Honest  write
Give me away :
My world around is all exposed to see.


Those who  are not givers, only lenders,
Use  pretenders’
Pens,  masked  with
No word
Right.

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Entered in   Michael  J. Falotico’s  
Contest  "Where Your Poetry Comes From" 2 Tetractys only...

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Millennial Madness

Millennial meltdowns dripping liquid assassins
Hollywood havens dressed in fictitious fashions
Political parasites promiscuous pretenders
Inaugural inquisitions collateral contenders

Suicidal secretions, soups of the day
Tantalizing tyrants, leading the way
Corrosive climates heating the score
Idiocentric inconsistencies waging the war.



Jan.19.2017...^WW^...

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I love the way she writes, 

and walks, 

with all the confidence and strength

that comes her way so naturally.

Not for her the forced bravado

of braggarts 

or the simpering shyness 

of pretenders.

All she does and writes is bold,

certain, 

and immodest. 

She makes men’s blood run stronger

and offers no apologies 

for the woman in her poetry,

and in her walk....

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The pyramid at Giza 
is ancient they say,
but is it oldest
on the worldwide grid?

Some others say nay,
consider Java's Gunung Padang
built 27,000 years ago
a new study shows.

Archeologists raise their eyebrows,
they scoff and snort,
we must surely investigate 
those most moronic upstarts.

They question timelines ordained
by us long ago;
we can't be usurped
by those deluded pretenders!...

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Filled with threads of hatred
Amidst deceivers and pretenders 
You were sent

Sinking may look inevitable
The arrow may be off the bow already
Despite the gun to your head

Hear this whisper "love again"

The roof may be on fire
Misery may define you

Hear this whisper "love again"

Your survival is a promise of victory
This darkness is an assurance of a coming dawn

Breathe,
Live,
Love again....

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Within the mendicant monolithic mirror
The fraudulent faces that are never nearer
For in the whimsical wonderland of Alice
Parasitic pretenders in the pompous palace

As we listen to the pretentious preachers
We give long life to the loveless leechers
For the masking mirrors regrettably reflect
Flamboyant fantasies of life’s nemesis neglect.




July.12.2017
Modern vanity 
Sponsored by: Lewis Raynes...

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He was so charming, but never a prince.
Sweet words he chose to mix and mince.
How could my mind have been so dense,
To let my heart rob me of common sense?

It's true, I fell for many of his smooth lines.
Love pricks like a fork with sharpened tines.
Wounds causing me to need a defender
From the one I call the great pretender.

Or am I the pretender? 
Aren't we all great pretenders,
at one time or another?...

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Thorns behind fine roses,
The ache of hearts that bleed;
Deceit beneath pretty faces,
Far from suspicion indeed...
Yet, such ought to be feared
(Even the cutest little one),
Full of immense beauty and con!

Thorns behind fine roses,
A sparkling dose of cyanide;
Best pretenders in most cases,
In them the worst ill reside...
Oh, such ought to be feared
(If you ever come across one),
Full of false innocence and con!...

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I think of her constantly
And I couldn’t imagine life without her
With every beat of my heart I’ve fallen head over heels
She’s my one and only 
True Love

But beware of false pretenders
Who lurk in the shadows of broken hearts
Only to deprive those who has been join together as one

My love for her is sacred
I miss every moment she’s not around
I’ve entered a forbidden territory at my own risk
I’ve fallen in Love...

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Each & every one of us remembers
History differently.

It's more an individual experience
Than we realise.

                     Always trying to forget,
Or force it to submit.

Sometimes every street we've ever been
Down,    is sewn into corpuscles,
Vein, membrane;

Often we're just stupid.
Uneasy dreamers that gave the unconcious production
Of self movies away, freely,

To the pretenders.

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He
is she,
which can be
Anybody.

The number is three
as everyone can see.
The people all vote for me
and I am the only one free.

If it means you listen to my plea,
then follow us all old and young to sea.

There we will drown and all pretenders will flee,
For this is the source of my immortality.

Robert Dixon
This time I added a syllable for every line.  I only could reach twelve and keep it sensible.  
Let me know what you think.
Thanks!...

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"Lotus Eater"

The love affair between fire and ice caused lava to engulf all the roses in the mountain.

Yet we need ice to extinguish the fire burning romance and fire melts the freezing hearts to loath.

Pretenders, chest thievery for self gain, cheetahs never satisfied with their God given swiftness and liars that is what chased Curbid away.

A loveless perimeter got them all burning up with love sickness, the love lorn radius rigged the thermometer........

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they lurk in corners, safe and dark
until they decide to growl and bark
then point an ugly old crooked finger
spittle drooling on the chin, they linger

arguing any point for arguments sake
no sense do they ever seem to make
they pretend to be a master know-it-all
a braying donkey left too long in its stall

always insisting to have the last word
looking like fools, they are quite absurd
these egotistic imbeciles act quite spastic
the pretenders who are all made of plastic...

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Thought it was you
and me, we had
this amazing  chemistry I
had your back thought
you had mines

we weren't perfect but
we were good pretenders 
I believe in you
I had no idea 
you didn't believe in me 

you moved on left 
me stranded, it hurt
like hell to watch
you with someone else
and you pretend that
I was never there 

you ask me why
I wasn't happy for 
you, you didn't deserve 
my aproval 

you ask why I
wasn't happy for you 
I was happy for 
you, I wasn't  happy...

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