Short Tricking Poems

you have confused us 
tricking us into springtime 
when snow is still here...

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‘Boundary’
deceptive pick up line 
seductively tricking the mind 
to follow....

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Leader
Talented, wicked
Tricking, lying, cunning
A person motivated by greed
'Politrickcian'...

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They come out at night
Frightful creatures knocking doors
Tricking or treating

Distorted faces
Little monsters carrying bags
Eating sweet victims...

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Some teens went trick-or-tricking for fun
Not thinking they would have to run
When night creatures attacked
Turning them into smacked
Now they're topping on a sweet bun...

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If I awoke as a girl,

I'd give nude dancing a whorl.

I would try my luck,

Tricking men out of a buck,

For just a smile and a twirl.




For the "If I was A Girl" contest...

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Tricking me is what he did, 
He was at his best. My first 
Opinion of him was that he was a pest.
Meowing and a meowing, thinking he was smart,
A cruel cat he was indeed he 
Surely looked the part....

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Playful pony promenade
Quietly quizzing querulous quail
Respite regulated regimented rabbits
Studiously steering sterling striped starlings
Tricking trinkets, trunks and tributaries
Undervalued, underdeveloped, and underdone...

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Leaving them hopeless
Breaking their spirit
animals sometimes
humans other times
puts them in cages
torments their souls
soulless monsters
imprisoning
setting a trap
capturing
enslaving
kidnapping
tricking
snaring
hunt...

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clarity in lucidity
in the waking state
tricking into a dream
that our limited free will
retains seeming freedom ~

requires softening attention 
in time dissolved stillness 
awareness self-aware
fulcrum void-centric
presence formless...

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On the pirate ship lollipop 
all of your sugar I’m licking.
So addicted I just can’t stop, 
at baseline my lips are sticking. 
A smile and bubblegum tricking,
cute with emotional damage.
The bulletin isn’t clicking, 
set a fire enjoy the carnage....

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Into the shadow
Of the
Midnight tree
Passing lights
A complicated
Play
Splay of Silhouettes
Upon the mist
There briefly be
Tricking creek
An
Midnight fire
Planets align
As do
Dark clouds
Of war
An rain -ing
Death
Blocking
The midnight
Heavens...

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HALLOWEEN POLITICS: A HAIKU TRILOGY 

Halloween…coming…
Aping today’s politics:
No treats…just more tricks:- 
		
Offering false treats,
Evil candidates ape ghosts;
Tricking scared voters:-

Halloween precedes
Coming midterm elections;
Voting tricks abound:-...

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Love is an illusion
Our mind tricking us 
Into thinking that we are special
But when put to the test
It shatters into pieces

Love is an illusion
A cruel thing
We invent 
To make us feel better about ourselves

Love is an illusion
Something to be forgotten;l...

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You used to be alive
More alive than the life that surrounded you
Blinded by their lies
That blood ain't thick anymore 


The apologies don't fit the new frame
Time is god and you ain't wise to praise it
The free neptunian been tricking you
I'll send you a love letter from Saturn soon......

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Fancy dancy unicorn friendly cowgirl boots
Stomping tromping riding along on shoots
With glitz and spritz and things that make me smile
Kicking and tricking up things on this country mile
I see you coming and I laugh at the things you do.
All feminine and girly, showing up every ballet shoe....

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Waking with the daybreak
I felt like someone else
Looked at the reflection
And I did not see myself

Possibly sands have gone
Down a little since then
Is that tricking of time
This life is not pretend

Nothing stays so endless
These grains cannot last
Wasting seconds counting
History showing too fast...

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Cork of my life, sheer pain in vain,

Rode with me upon a fast train;

Not far could I go, though I tried

For it blocked my path, hurt my pride;

Yet, tricking my brain, smile I feign.

November 29, 2019
Five word challenge poetry contest
Sponsor: Beth Evans
8 syllables per line (howmanysyllables.com)...

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Was arguing with myself 
whether grey begins where black and white meet
or in the blend just beyond
When sunlight caught my sight
tricking itself onto metal
A garrison of splintered sub nuclear fractals
causing diamond headaches
in my minds eye
But if the colours 
never met
would the grey just fade to grey...

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Monkey business is pure fun filled play
Tricking and chatting throughout the day
Climbing banana trees their own way
If you invade them try to be merry and gay

If you do not, they will chase you away.
If you are silly and cute they may let you stay.
They let interlopers visit every other Tuesday.
Want to go with me? What do you say?...

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Throwing insults side to side. 
I wonder what you have to hide. 
Under that tough outside shell. 
Demons reeking total hell. 
Jealousy, Anger, Fear.
If I could just peer, 
Deep into your heart,
To fix that part.
That screw that's loose,
Which spills all the horrid abuse
I hope one day you see. 
You aren't tricking no one. 
Not me!...

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Do your eyes not see words in beautiful darkness?
Does your mind not weave woe into wondrous melody?
Does your mouth not taste the strength of song?
Do your ears not hear the glamour of grief?
Do your hands not touch tricking tears as you tremble?
Does your nose not smell the salted, settled eyes?
Pain is palpable, beauty indescribable....

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scrolling 
      trolling

clicking
      tricking

to cheat
      deceit 

snitches
     glitches 

lame game
     for fame 

peeving
     thieving

maybe
    they’ll see

jester
    fester

traitor
   baiter

drama
   mama

dressed in
          satin

green grime
         cold crime

     loner
         moaner...

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Yeah, I hawk caught you baby ... 
you’re only blind mice tricking yourself
Got those guilty thoughts lately,
trying to pin the blame on someone else

Contrary to your popular mechanic wench misconception,
the worry warts are showing all your flinch imperfections
And the crooked motor design used to lip move your lying,
needed a dummy behind the will to avert the truth prying...

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A poem read, right time nor place,  
Be like ho-hum, phantom sans face,                 
In a conjugal bed
As if odd scriptures read,
A trump of ‘two’ tricking an ace!

But a lay piece at place and time  
Is deemed proper, in place  and prime.
As in a bridal quart,
To undress is rare art—
At public place a social crime.
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Limericks |16.07.2023| place, time...

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