Short Trickery Poems

well-tried trickery:
helps bogart most of the seats
with the least votes gained...

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Honest
Integrity
Forthright in all matters
Changes from a past trickery
Truthful


	Traditional Cinquain Contest...

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I found out
All that money is
Not needed
Cash doesn’t
Cure pain, sadness, and sorrow
And can’t buy pure love

Russell Sivey...

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Chinese whispers
up and down
round and round
spins
effortlessly
into unguarded
hollows
deceived
beginnings
ends at
destined
trickery....

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We could ride the storm 
Get banged, bruised  and survive
But we may never get a second chance
To rectify damages we've cause through
Trickery and lies...

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Such a simple question heaven forbid.
There’s no trickery that has been hid.
Would I be able to guess,
how many live in U.S. -
I replied, I thought everyone did....

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He defies gravity
He defies energy
He defies the atmosphere
He defies normalcy
He defies trickery
He defies natural disasters
And now for his next trip.
Oops….....

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"Show us God", they cried aloud
Said with trickery from the crowd

Then a faint voice served with smile
Said, "Look my friends,
Look at the child!"

Brenda Elizabeth Rose...

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Time, a fancy thing
Concocted to distract the mind 
With idle trickery
Then and now
When and where
A question of reality
There is only here
Always here
Always now
Just BE...

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i witnessed your trickery
but could you see mine?
it still seems a mystery
perfectly timed
i guess when it hits you
as matter of fact
that lesson wont miss you
to surely react...

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quick sight… caught
a creamy, frothy tail
skulking behind bins
caramel
this creeping tod 
wry trickery, claw
prowl and sly, brazen
he's getting too brave
soon…
a knock on the door...

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A QUICKIE

At last resorting to trickery
faking orgasms so stickily
that the bed sheets adhered
to her bush, and his beard
pleased it was over so quickily. 


John G. Lawless
6/18/2014...

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Watch out, don't spell “part” backward, it's a “trap”
Many men have succumbed, ended with a lawsuit in their lap
We must stay alert
Such trickery to avert
Whether part or trap, it's a costly handicap...

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A plastic bag appeared in my dream,
Polluting my thoughts of love
A sign or trickery it may seem
Sent from way above

I look outside and see the garden
My face begins to sag
Oh Lord, I beg your pardon
A rose in a plastic bag...

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Rainbows know no trickery.

They are but a reflection of 
     God 
     Himself
in a heaven-sized water droplet.

A promise made a millennium ago
as the floods receded after 40 days.

The purest logic sent from above....

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Printing paper money,
which they so adore.
Point a finger at US,
claim we owe more.
How does that figure?
Who keeps the score?
All legal trickery,
with deceit and war.
Beyond Sensibility,
They have no answer for.
Exploiting, We the People,
Whom they Ignore....

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Dancing with the darkness
Accursed creature of the night
Wearing a mask of humanity
To hide that twisted trickery
Then playing demon music
Pipes wail a beauty's curse
Stealing life and children
From our loving tender kin
Twisted vile changing
Go back to darkened dreaming...

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Submerged skin deep
in solace,
you play trickery
in your silent rebellion.
Soil claims sanctuary 
on defiant children
like your veil lingers.
You're still sweet.
Sheepish smile behind war paint,
we're not so different 
you and I.
I too have bled music
during my vow of silence
and given myself up....

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Fall                                      
Cool air
Leaf patterns
Acorn scattered
Squirrel trickery
 
Fall
Foot ball
Cheerleader
Disappointment
Quarterback contest
 
Fall
Spicy
Delicious
Cellar magic
Hot apple cider
 
Fall
Stark dark
Barren trees
Void of feathers
Pretty leaf piles...

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Two sisters, one man-
Well-tricked for his trickery,
Jacob gained two wives.

Two sisters, one man-
One weak-eyed and unwanted;
One was beautiful.

Two sisters, one man-
In love he wept for Rachel,
For sons loved Leah.

Two sisters, one man-
Mandrakes, sex bartered in hopes
Both would feel equal....

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Paralyzed and half sleep
I can't move as I try to wake
I struggle to rise from my slumber and stand on my feet

Trickery from sleep hypnopompic
Wish I could wake,
this experience is atrophic

Vivid was the dream
Battling a sleep spell
Disturbing was its theme

I awake questioning reality
Is this real?
Is this a duality?...

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Shred me apart with secrets so quiet,
bring madness to my days as I weep-
I’ve seen you there causing a riot,
and now I can’t find any good sleep.

Trickery must be available inside,
loveliness has gone with the breeze-
I can run but no one to confide,
and the pain beneath puts me at ease.


October 2, 2016...

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she felt his heart beat
so identifiable 
an enchanting sound
her only recollection
of the man she use to love

the heart’s trickery 
has claimed another victim 
yet her heart still beats
is it just an illusion?
or will she find her way back?


Contest Name : “BAG OF TRICKS”
By	        : Wilma N. Neels


080720111350...

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Paralysed with fear I awoke
surrounded by vampires feasting
Diabolical, my eyes provoke
Normality is decreasing
Now an alien abduction
Whisking me aboard a spacecraft
Blood pulsating introduction
Halloween alcoholic draught
Cautionary trickery dawns
Reality hangover yawns





Date 10/23/20
Halloween Challenge Poetry Contest
Sponsor Emile Pinet...

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I have unpoetic thinking at times
half thoughts that hang in the air
like a welcoming noose
trying to kid you into position 
or perhaps the reverse 
some brain trickery to coax 
away from traps, snares or the threat of
then without warning
I recall that I can breathe
move out of that moment
forget what that numbed non fuss was about
until the next time
...

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