Short Pretenses Poems

Short Pretenses Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Pretenses by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Pretenses by length and keyword.


Premium Member Stripped Naked

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


Fragment Fourteen Point Two

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

Nothing To Prove

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
Form: Nonet

Premium Member A Little Weird

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
Form: Limerick

Pretenses

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!
Form: Verse


Premium Member Granola

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ahoy there!


(for PD's 'test)
Form: Limerick

Neil Peart Plus

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
Form: Rhyme

Untimely Death Of A Promising Rose


Witches' words come to pass with two senses:
One brings you light, dark can't dare its fences, 
While the other can't resist-
Its seeker off light's assist, 
Chasing endless feats to bar's pretenses.
Form: Limerick

Standards

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

Premium Member Love's Wisteria

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

Liquid Senses

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
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Why He Fought

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
Form: Rhyme

Caught In the Moment

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….
Form: Rhyme

A Love Letter To Josephine De Beauharnais

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.
Form: Ode

Premium Member Beautiful Victories---

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. ©

False Pretenses of Home Life

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.

Dawning To Death

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.
Form: List

Premium Member Alliteration Always Answers An Allure

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.

Premium Member Death Be Not My Prison Made

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.

Premium Member Wagon John

Wisdom he passed on to school children in his travels. Active man with no pretenses. Good Man that was a recovering alcoholic Oasis of knowledge. Nature had captivated his lifestyle. Joining him in his travels were Sugar Foot his saddle horse. Offbeat from the mainstream lifestyle. His home, two covered wagons pulled by six mules. Negativity had no part of his life.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Thrust Home

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?”
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
art
Form: Verse

Nurturing the Soul

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.
Form: Rispetto

Super Sunday

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
Form: Limerick

Valentine Rose

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.

Barrack Obama

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.
Form: Acrostic

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