Short Pretense Poems

Pretense of virtual character ~ Rancid Soup...

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The forest dark and ever dense
Swallowed the light 
Without pretense...

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in this theatrical world
where the pretense is real
the truth has secondary role...

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Life is graciously fair to all by birth
To live up to chances, know your true worth...

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Day. . . in hectic job:
laughs, jokes, joy, pretense . . . night?
- pains of solitude!...

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Into her eyes I enter, free of unctuous pretense, my daughter, so I can feel it all as she....

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golden goose pretense
of an au courant coffer —
rags rich on his breath

1/5/2021...

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Judgment panel code 
For pretense road human makes
God made for the all



-October 17, 2018 Chattogram...

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His piercing stare
     strips the pretense 
       from my soul

     Held up to His mirror
       my eyes cede control...

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We walk
And talk

In words 
Absurd.

Words flow
With no

Pretense 
Of sense

But sound 
Profound.
...

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purple violets
picket fence hides the rough stuff
family misery.

yellow daffodil
showing the world perky,
fooling the neighbors...

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Moon on the blue Nile.
Dual happenstance.
No pretense or guile.
Captured by romance.
Upon a timeless Isle.
Within a lover's trance.

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Since time, a woman
Aesthetic and soft spoken
maybe just pretense.
If they know the lady's heart
would they love a crazy wild?


~cvb~ 03/09/22...

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My song will be out of tuned
Distorted and seaming in ruin
A matter of false fact
Under a pretense that
The truth will be told
And not bought and sold...

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Fake smile
Presenting pulsing cheek
Hovering pretense
Easily seen by hyper vigilant child
Anger shining through clearly
On the flip side of a hidden world...

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Right or pretense
It makes sense
To see and suspense
what Socrates says:
"in number, there are views
as the number of human heads
their words are immense"....

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Sweet-heart
Can fool you
To really think
What they will be like
One year is not enough
Trial run okay?
Sounds like self-doubts
No pressure
Please choose
You...

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Tim is so dense he never understands 
Little wife Rosemary's hint of pretense
He cuddles her tender boobs
with sneak attacks on pubis
Oblivious to her sense of defense....

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this is what it is
blue sky sparkles in dry eyes ~         
rain clouds deep within

this is what it is
pretense spreads calm shine on smile ~ 
fierce storm inside     


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The enduring love of faithful friends
is my shield against the false pretense
of those who laugh and smile with me
but through their actions, subtlely
have in their hearts abandoned me....

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I pretend not to see him
His big goofy dog face sticking out of a leaf pile
how can I keep this pretense up?
Look at that grin!
He always looks joyful like this.
Everyone needs a dog....

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Loyal to the core and beyond no pretense
For years Tom and I have been loyal friends
Nothing's greater than that
My jolly old chap
My extra special friend right to the end...

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PARADOX OF LIFE

Some people live in pretense to show bliss when they are sad for truth hurts.


4/25/21    Paradox of Life Poetry
                JCB Brul

Checked:  How Many Syllables...

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Here lies the grave of innocence

Where despair tainted charity

Where hope broke in crumbled pretense

Betrayed by darkened clarity.

7/27/20

Entered in 'Your Best Quatrain' contest...

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Easy smile, soft warm voice,flaxen hair. 
Simple things pleased her.
No pretense, greed, envy or slander.
A soulmate, lover, partner, friend, confidant.
Sweet loving mother.
Taken too soon....

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