Short Subterfuge Poems

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


Premium Member Stop Your Pussyfooting Subterfuge

Listen to poem:
Bashing bushes never worked!
As answers become vague touchés.
Matching hazy questions, akin.
Step up nosily, face-to-face.
Form: Verse


Premium Member lost innocence

ego energised eddy currents betray
serpentine spirals of subterfuge 
heart too shy to emote love
till God be soul’s refuge
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Street Decay

Urban street decay,
let’s get off at the wrong stop.
Subterfuge to muzz
is coercing you to ride.
What else could be left to say?
Form: Tanka

Ida Know and Ida Wanna

New Orleans is living the blues
As water soaks into their shoes
Will FEMA refuse
To fund his beer cruise
Or choose to use subterfuge?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member flimflamming flighty fairyland

Flimflamming flighty fairyland
Hidden in hills, next to solid sand
Subterfuge for elves and king elf grand
Sought out by curious Mariachi band
Form: Rhyme


Ebenezeer Scrooge

Ebenezeer Scrooge
Suspected subterfuge,
And his transformation seems extreme
For what was probably just a nightmarish dream!

For Andrea’s Christmas Clerihew contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Deluge Became Refuge

Deluge Became Refuge

We had discovered a huge deluge
Of things stuck there in subterfuge;
Being  brash,
Was all trash;
Had been tossed becoming refuge.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Trumpetfish's Sneaky Subterfuge

A Trumpetfish's sneaky subterfuge Scared prey's wary lookout, is foiled by trumpetfish, hitchhiking a sneaky ride. onboard a friendly parrotfish.
Form: Verse

Crimson vision

Wilful wounding
by shrouded diktat
caging vision
in scarlet pangs.
Numb to lamentation
silver and gold chink.
Amid the rustle
of lamé gowns
silence is nailed
secure.

Premium Member Checkmate

wherever there be
fear or subterfuge
our heart dies a little
so the problem is huge

anticipating outcomes
attempting to steer fate
living not authentically
is essentially checkmate
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Deception

bright sky darkening
betrayal by subterfuge ...
cruel aftermath






11/5/2022

When betrayal from those you trust is combined with calculated deceit, the aftermath can be most cruel.
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Undue Love of Money

undue love of power


undue "religion of matter"


usury unchecked


***


murder, subterfuge:


foul powers that be


---  cabal-loving and lynching-loving ---


divide and conquer

Bat With The Bad Repute

Bat with the bad repute.
All I've took in
Bird with a mask;
Fiendish looking.

Bat, increasing man's fear
Of the unknown.
All I've felt overflown of
For subterfuge
Elusive darks
Its hushed refuge.
Form: Rhyme

Crows

Crows gather
in beacons of Blackness
Any subterfuge of despair
marvels their flight
A curfew is needed
for their sorceress

They are the harlequins of the night
on a mindful mission
of sequined tricks

Premium Member AI GUY

AI GUY Though I write from my app, not my impassioned soul I'm praised and lauded as I play a poet's role Don't tell me I lie I'm just an AI Guy Subterfuge is my game and a trophy my goal!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Nate the Neon Hedgehog

Nate, the neon hedgehog was followed around by a crowd
some were amazed that he was not very loud
I loved his fuchsia, my husband liked his greens, yellows and blues
He could not hide at all, he had no subterfuge.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Zen mode

deluded, by ego led
we spot the onset of dread
a subterfuge mechanism 
of ego in body prism

what have we to do with this
with our presence drenched with bliss
so we embrace and release
dark thoughts and flow on with ease
Form: Jueju

The Antogonzer

In springtime, 
I do not 
Practice Voo Doo. 
Like the witch. 

I do find froclics
In this space 
Machine easy and
Subterfuge. 

Your atomic 
Bomb, so 
Easy to dismantle
Now. 

Or to drop. 

I'm not sure
Which way the
Wind will blow.

Rust

R emember how all things were once shiny and new,

U nderneath them all a corrosive subterfuge grew.

S ilently oxidating from the outside or in,

T reasures’ life should exclude are always made of skin!



For the RUST contest because “RUST NEVER SLEEPS!”
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Truth

TRUTH

don’t dare speak the truth
there will be subtle thunder
as your words hit home
areas thought innocent
were seeded    now breaking forth

storm is upon you
as fits your life’s position
blasts both great or small
truth is a can opener
a can filled with subterfuge
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Zen Mode

layered silence
ego subterfuge
a comfort zone

if there be not 
self-existent light
and ineffable peace
in a singularity 
that is in self renewal 
absolute and complete
abiding thus in itself
in restful contentment 

so if we be not as such
we are short changed

06-June-2023

Premium Member When We Be Awake

when ego is not then thought too is not and with lower mind at rest subterfuge and camouflage are passé ‘tis when essence of pristine presence emerges finally ensouling form in active awareness whilst ego now serving soul as is ought opposites having dissolved we rise breath by breath oozing love

Premium Member Fifth Graders Feet of Today

Their feet are not petite. They are huge.
No hiding or sneaking. No subterfuge.
Fifth graders' feet are as big as boats.
Where is the drink me anecdote?

Clown shoes for them might be too small.
If I had their feet, I would never fall.
Preservatives have bulked them up so big.
Here is be tiny juice, please take a swig.
Form: Rhyme

Mosquito Wars Update

One night during the Great Mosquito Wars
After a three-hour struggle
Using subterfuge, with candles, lights, "gas" -
There was not a single sighting

About the third hour, into the wee-est hours
I felt a movement (by the enemy)
Quick as a flash, my hands slapped my knee:
Not a Mighty Mosquito, not even a fly, just a flea
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member This Is How It Works

on an overall basis when our identity recedes flowing in tranquil, gentle calm bliss magnetism rises as love leads as we are we be and so in time become low cunning and subterfuge has here no place divine attributes manifest as of our heart’s intent if it is God we seek, He will bestow upon us His grace
Form: Rhyme

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