Short Take It At Face Value Poems

I do know fiction.... so don't take all my poems at face value....

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Try to keep
my real self
from view
why do I assume
to take others
at face value
they could be hiding
something
too....

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take the world at face value
ease up a little
delicate souls
easily broken and brittle
we worry about things we should not
just wait it out... and you've forgot...

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The black clouds roll in
yet the sun shines in your heart
that's what love can do
the illusion of the eye
the dagger that stabs the soul.

© Harry J Horsman  2014...

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figurative 
           symbols,
pictorial
         textures
grafted:the
to complement
the
     elegiac 
             narrative
with
       gestures 
         of meaning
to integrate
       with desire...

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Bittersweet
A misnomer
Like salty chocolate
Or
White the new Black.

Face value
Only
Cut or dried
Perceives.

A severed-meat
Kiln
Hanging
Dry and tasteless
More
Soot on the tongue
Less
Beauty in spaces....

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Face value is not! while one fails he shall look over quite true face on
Right time! Real help and love
Ignores not you but your faults
Exalts not your downs but your success 
Never deceives you with vain hopes
Daddy deed in need....

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When we rise each morning 
We face yet, another day
It is another opportunity 
To enhance your mind greatly in every way 
There are more lessons to learn 
By the minute and hour 
We take in everything at face value 
In order not to flounder...

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Walls will close inward
Time will sadly pass onward each day
Conversation runs dry
In each and every way
Girl, why do we masquerade our feelings?
When it is simple to be pure and true
We have to look at things at face value
That is what we must do...

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You may not be symmetrical
But when you smile 
You are beautiful
You may not sound intellectual 
But when you speak 
Still you are beautiful
You may not feel effectual
But when you cheer 
You are beautiful
You may not seem celestial
But when you laugh
Still you are beautiful...

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You said you hated me. 
I can take that for face value.
You said you loved me.
I can't take that coming from you.

I shared my fears.
You used them against me.
I expressed my weakness'.
You plucked at them gently.

You managed to get in my thoughts,
I allowed it.
You hollowed out my heart,
I involved it....

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You worry so much about your appearance
You fret about your nose being too big
Your mouth too wide and your lips too thin
But be assured people really don’t give a fig
For while you display your magnificent breasts 
Encased sensually within black lace
Any imperfections you have will go unnoticed
Because no one is looking at your face...

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The face of this poem had cotton candy eyes and a mole for a nose, high red cheek bones, and a mouth with black lipstick on. The face of this poem had one right ear and it's yellow. And the face of this poem had one rainbow earring on. Gold framed glasses on a classy lady.she has a blue aura floating above a white halo. I take people at face value, Do you? Well, she is the star of her own life....

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take not at face value  
look slant and see new view   
truth may be hard to find
and half-truths leave you blind   
trust not what first you see
let your mind wander free
sixth sense may shine a light
on things that not seem right   
some face values deceive
to lead you to believe   
belief is not knowing   
and often misleading   
look slant and see new view
take not at face value.
...

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She puts on her mask 
The one that always smiles,
Ready to face the world,
Hiding all her trials.
No one seems to notice 
The sadness in her eyes,
They take her at face value,
Don't see through her disguise.
She's really very lonely,
Lost and empty inside,
Devoid of love and comfort,
Her troubles multiplied.
She thinks she has no one,
Nobody to care,
If only she knew 
Gods loves always there....

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At face value
I would recommend
this café to you.
Let me be your guide,
I will not lie.
The food is great,
the menu varied.
The ambiance
allows for a relaxed evening.
There’s even a fern
hanging by the window
next to the piano.
On a stormy day
It’s a great place to seek shelter.
There’s a sturdy cabinet
in back
where you can put your possessions
for safe keeping.
Let me tell you it’s great,
I’m a critic,
and I know the score....

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What a beautiful coin that is something to behold!
Its contents are nearly one troy ounce of gold.
Today, these coins are expensive and hard to find.
Artist Augustus St.Gaudens fashioned the design.
On the front, Liberty holds a torch before a rising sun.
On the back, an eagle flies above another one.
It has a face value of twenty dollars; the most back then.
The mint will never make anymore of these pieces again.
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life is a mystery
for those who do not think
mysterious

taking face value of faces,
though behavior a far truer
evidence

magicians knew diversion 
best, ancestors of science and
swearing instruments

poets are both form and formless -- 
the latter, speaking outside
circumspect rituals – torrid
imagination their claim to
nearer omnipotence...certain one's works 
will live on forever, simply by leaving off 
any 
final 
punctuation...

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Freely falling thoughtlessly levitating deeply engrossing 
clearly seeing openly meaning reality being lonely
contemplating obscenely rhyming lyrically singing 
timely emoting emotionally shining clarity

Is clarity a thought process or is it free falling artistically ?
You tell me  
Is it processing emotions at face value or are emotions
punching you so hard in the face you have that moment
of clarity?
You tell me
Really.  What is clarity?...

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a new chapter starts in both books
the pages blank; pens hovering
what I've learned from you:
tread more cautiously
don't trust so easily
look for hidden agendas

my path looks unobstructed
debris in high piles to the side
but I will not take at face-value
what seems obvious
that much I have learned

what did I leave you with?
was there anything?
we talk of you, no questions of me
you box what you can carry
checking what's left for free...

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They say years make you wise
Though wisdom is seen through children’s eyes
Life viewed simply with less complication
Friendships formed without evaluation

No judgement on where you come from or what you possess
Face value and whether they like you is the way children assess
No preconceived ideas based on how you live or what you do
Acceptance and equality solely based on how they view….You!

So perhaps we grownups are not so wise
Maybe we should view life through children’s eyes!...

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