Short Pretenses Poems

Stripped of all pretenses
Naked as the light of day
Sensual, au natural look
Appealing in every way
   ~ Chiquita Banana, Ole!...

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Nothing less than false pretenses
Different folks, strokes, different faces
Breaking my heart into pieces
Hurting big time in all places...

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nothing to prove to my friends or foes
true friends know my worth, heart and soul
a woman in Heaven's light
love showers my garden
no pretenses
child of God
mother 
wife...

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The real me is what you read here
No pretenses, no need to put on airs
What you see is all there is
Gosh, golly, gee whiz
Used to be deeper but now a little weird...

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Put on the mask and waltz
Pretend you’re someone else
Play the mind game. Flirt with
Pretty dames in the hall
Praise their glow of starlight,
Painting words made for fools!...

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Time t'was the ol' Cap'n for me
Them Crunchberries coated my teeth
Once I came to my senses
Granola's pretenses
hugged me to firm grounding beneath.

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Ahoy there!


(for PD's 'test)...

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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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And we stand here as time fades
Everything dilates
And we finally see each other
This is hell
I am raw and open
Vulnerable and exposed
I am imperfect and you are perfection
All my pretenses stripped away
And i finally admit
I could never be good enough for you...

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The perfume wonderful _what scent is that?
Splendid Wisteria's presence captures my senses
Oblivion to all duty on love's scent get fat
Purer than cleaned glass my thoughts; weakened defenses
The perfume_ wonderful_love's Wisteria no pretenses   ...

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Another unwanted
passes through memories
down mundane streets 
suburbs undaunted

available liquid pass
tempted nostril senses
youth invaded stolen by
unpure pretenses

soft like shreds of life
tears of laughter
preserve treads
to a childhood lost to
hereafter...

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Soldier stashed a silver locket
Safe inside his jacket pocket
When the war would numb his senses
He’d break down and drop pretenses
Open up the only token
That recalled those thoughts unspoken
Images of infant, young wife
For their freedom, he’d give his life...

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Caught in the moment,
under an influenced mind,
unhindered judgment,
everything’s fine.

No fear for any consequences,
actions put into motion,
uninhibited pretenses,
fuelled by alcoholic emotions.

Caught in the moment,
you thought no one would see,
unhindered judgment,
until someone told me…....

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My emotions are explosive.
My pretenses are relegated
to the depths.
I cannot my feelings
anymore conceal.
Let me come in and
share your heavenlies
and tumults with you.
Tomorrow never comes.
Let me this day your
swift response hear.
Or else in suspense
I'll live and die
countless before the
much awaited moment....

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BEAUTIFUL VICTORIES---


Something coming over me
A continued victory
Blinded eyes open, now I see
This sweet victory

Gracious going free
My heart is open merrily
Seeking ever pretenses journeys
This pleasant victory
I thank my God for these beautiful
Beautiful victories


11/30/18

Written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©...

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We all like to live
In our delusions,
With all the little
Things we want to be
True.

We like to believe 
That everything is 
Fine
Normal
(And if nothing else)
Will be alright.

They say that acting
Takes passion,
But all it takes is 
Pain.

The world is our stage
And we must perform
To convince the audience
That all is well
In this play....

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We need to be careful
We need to be watchful
The way they look
The way they behave
That quirky smile
That signs and signals
That anger and hatred
That hints and cracks
Their Evil Ego
Their underlings and false pretenses could be the dawnings of death.
Note. Body language is the index of mind.
Lesson. Underworld is the world of demons....

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Whimsical wisps of forever fantastical feelings
Pass passionate purple periwinkle pretenses
Uniformed unicorns unleash underpass of Unitarianism 
Alluding alluring angst of alliterative adjectives 
Enticing exciting, enthusiastic enjoyable encounters
Imagining illustrious intuitive intrusions of indigo, 
Providing playfully pleasurable poetic people’s poetry....

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We exist in ourselves with multiple connections 
We earthly move as, I, me, mine/ fictional 
pretenses all together as a trio of one. 
We enliven our ancestors in every 
aspect of past life overtures.
In physical death we are surrounded 
by/with every eternal loved one, as they
patiently wait in their spiritual wings, eagerly 
awaiting to celebrate our ethereal homecoming....

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I strive to smelt my feelings in a crucible of art,
I plunge them into tears until the hissing starts;
And after they are cooling, then I hammer them with zeal:
A rapier forged of supple, double-edged poetic steel.

I lunge it at my enemies imagined…usually,
Or raise it in salute to valiant friends, so loyally,
Or turn the weapon on myself, then finally 
To stab my pretenses, skewered with “Why me?”...

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verdant sprouts shoot forth from the freshly quenched earth.
All welcome the rebirth and rising of souls.
Archaic walls crumble. Who knows the true worth
of faith, no pretenses, of waning control? 
An unnamed blessing, we cast off our burdens,
to emerge from sleep behind opaque curtains. 
Rain nurtures the tender seedlings beneath soil.
With light, dusty land will bear fruit from our toil....

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Now it’s Roethlisberger versus Rodgers
To escape sacks, they’ll have to be dodgers
 
   Two very strong defenses
   Big egos and pretenses

When the ball’s caught, they’ll try to dislodge her

There are only 60 minutes to play
But these games last four hours anyway

   Referee calls disputed
   Jeers from the crowd unmuted

But the instant replays will save the day






Entry for Royal Trevino's contest...

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You are the rose
   that filters my air with fatal fragrance
   yet saturates with sweetness all my senses.
Yours are the thorns that dug deep
   and scarred my heart,
   now healed by your love with no pretenses. 

You are that rose
   of which love songs are sung
   and with which gardens do grow.

You are my rose.
My eyes behold your beauty.
My lips tingle by your touch.

You are my valentine rose.
I love you, oh, so much....

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Barack cool as a schooner in wind
Anchored his vision to the sky
Rinse the blue and uncloud his mind
Rose up sweetly, bloom to defy
Ancient customs screening light 
Callous suppositions on human rights
Kindle a candle on his bow

Omniscient one, keep this orison for him
Black as the night but better to show
Africa's star on the Atlantic brim
Mending fences, sweeping pretenses away
Allow him to bring his cargo into bay....

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A Soul grown cold repenting for the lies to come,
lays cast in addiction laced stains of anguished fantasies.
With a tortured logic knowing the only way out is further in,
the Beast awaits its dawn, waking only to be fed again.
A circle that never arcs, scheming to envisage a new identity.
Withered and weary pretenses that are no longer attended,
never ending till the last taste is savored.
Maybe tomorrow...

02/26/2020...

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Dire Consequences


                  Hovering among clouds deluded by euphoric senses

                  Passions fought against the will bathed in pretenses

                  Plunged back down to Earth to a dim forsaken place

                  Beware there are dire consequences devoid of grace




                 
                 Composed:
                 3/11/2021
                 11:12 p.m.
                 Florida  USA...

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