Short Ulterior Poems

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Premium Member Acts of Love

No act could ever be characterized as an act of love unless ulterior motives are absent!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
      03 October 2016
Form: Monoku


Testing Truth

Taking a risk to disclose
Everything you
Said
That you wanted
Information about,
Never
Guessing

That your 
Real
Ulterior motive
Twisted my
Heart.
© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Not Simple Anymore

I
Fear of God was healthy for friends
The relationship was it, not ulterior ends

II
Fear of God is still widely spoken
Love of things, brings Promises broken
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.

And Then There Was Nun

A young Monk was feeling inferior,

and so with a motive ulterior,

        the Monk and a Nun,

        did what they shouldna done

and it made her a "Mother Superior"!
Form: Limerick

Step 2: Approach Indirectly

My moves, CALCULATED.
My motives, ULTERIOR.
My thoughts FIXATED...

...on getting you nearer




Note: This is inspired by Robert Greene's book " The Art of Seduction" 
Form: Rhyme


Assiah

A Delphic phosphorescence nests
Kindled was the yellow flame
Exclusive ulterior vibes rest
A Delphic phosphorescence nests
Sensibility shan’t ever subside
Upon sojourning the grain
A Delphic phosphorescence nests
Exclusive ulterior vibes rest
Form: Triolet

Premium Member Smiles

Smiles
Real smiles
Phony smiles
Trick pony smiles
Gray stony buck wild
Ulterior motive styled
Easy to drink like water
Cheesy white dreams you slaughter
Captured by a whimsical soul’s smile
Black and gold stories told by them so loud
Form: Etheree

Manyheaded Beast

When you realise 
Man is a many-headed 
Devil, 
That the one who 
Dines with you holds 
An ulterior intent to undo 
You, 
That people are 
A many-seasoned monsters,
That man changes like 
Day and night, 
That's only when no one can 
Deceive you.
Form: Didactic

To Love For Love and Not For Self

To love and then experience love,
Oh what a dream to dream.
Do to tell me if it's really real:
To care without ulterior motives,
To love without ulterior motives.
To love for love and not for self.
do tell me if it's really real,
If it's really real
To love for love and not for self.

Premium Member Flying Clogs

You simply cannot run in clogs; they slip-slide and fly yards from your destination; searching for a landing pad. Flying clogs, other’s dodge and wonder why you threw them when you didn’t. A flying clog’s ulterior motive, will make you very cross and endanger friendships.

Premium Member Feeling Free

Living no guiles
Just living and loving
Leading a simple life

The two of us
No masks no games
Wholeheartedly trusting

Living freely
Living true
Being open

Nothing to conceal
Holding hands
Walking in the same direction

No ulterior motive
Just being true
Feeling free

With you
Feeling whole



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Premium Member The Ulterior Motives Behind Dusting

The top shelves required dusting, so
			I looked for my stool high and low.
			No luck--but a chair
			would do. Then up there
			I cleaned that top shelf. It did glow.

			My cleaning cloths fell to the floor.
			I had to get down to find more.
			I dressed as I did
			because my man Sid
			was watching. Life's never a bore!

    February 29, 2016
Form: Limerick

The Oak

There, to the nearby oak looms a stagnant figure
yet, timelessly afar, lorn.

Beware the ulterior pond!
I tasted the water, wherein you bathed in the dawn

and the taste of that water, evoked a sudden williwaw 
I gently drank this nepenthe, which I did not own

but now, I yen to withdraw this burden
utterly lies in this bosom

soon annihilate
the wrath of my demon.
© Johan Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Slick Advertising

Slick Advertising Morning Thoughts 5-20-2020 Order today, It’s only $19.95, and you get a second one free, but there’s usually a reason that to the eye is lost. To obtain this gizmo you pay an unknown second fee, and get “made in China” that will quickly be tossed. Anything free, has an ulterior motive, or someone else has borne the cost.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Shenanigans

Customary or misquoted, What hand shall be dealt in this game of shenanigans people playing games are often questionable of one’s ulterior motives. Is it because of one’s anger, disappointments ascending, descending contemplating should the unknown accept the facts and move on or continuously deceive inner-self and remain on and off tasks contemplating who is playing the games if shenanigans.

Premium Member Shots Fired

He walks into the market,
With a rifle in his hands.
An ulterior motive,
That no one understands.

An automatic weapon,
It should come as no surprise.
With fully loaded clip,
Drops people just like flies.

See the blood splattered scene,
A sight we all abhor.
Another fatal shooting,
Limp bodies on the floor.

There's a smile on his face,
As he savors all the dead.
Please do us all a favor,
And shoot yourself instead.
Form: Rhyme

You In Me Iii

Though subtle, at times it seems,
I do hold you in high esteem.
I really try to do my best
To satisfy all your needs.
I respect you,
And I support the path that you lead
You'll never have to worry about
Me trying to cook up a scheme
With an ulterior motive
To exploit and demean
I understand loyalty
And that we play on the same team
My ambition is to please
And never to compete
Competition may win for one,
But will destroy the "we".
Form: Rhyme

Reality

Bitterness sufficiently in my soul
Lack of tolerance for ignorance, and ineptitude
Self-centered in nature uncovers hidden ulterior motives
A sad reality for the world
Lack of trust
Lack of Honesty
Lack of Genuine kindness
How do we survive?
Should we have faith when deception and misrepresentation are everywhere?
Can we overcome doubt and disbelief in the human race?
Without a glimmer of hopefulness
Who knows what the future will bring?
Form:

The Ulterior For the Interior

If your motives are ulterior,
Then, hatch them in The Interior
Where the Blame-Worthy is senior 
And the Praise-Worthy junior;
But your gain: Satan’s hysteria,
In hospitals Fresh Diphtheria,
The Ulterior makes The Inferior
Hardly, The Ulterior superior:
The by-nature meant for the rear, 
Coastal regions and ones by a ria 
Welcoming Sacrifice to Fear…

If your motives aren’t The Ulterior,
Yourself produce at The Exterior
Without notice of the prior.
Form: Rhyme

Alternative Throne

Mr Benjamin Khazi from Libya who went by 'Ben' we are taught when wanting to loosen his load if ever he were caught short designed a camping commode as a potentially preferable portable place to park his portly posterior then had them manufactured en masse with a motive quite ulterior for he turned his thought into gold altho' on a whim yet going out on a limb more than several such stools were sold which aptly were named 'Khazi' after him
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lonely Poet

His thoughts sun-drenched tears.

                 His bloody pen his whole life.
             His motive is always unrequited
                     love to all.
                    he has no ulterior motive in doing this
                    His unflagging whispers
                        stride along the impassable road.

                     He spells  an heavenly dawn.

                    He writes the green dream in the palm
                      of his hand

The Ryhme

I try to stay positive

And not be negative

I don't have ulterior motives

Not one to be vindictive

I do get defensive

I can be compulsive

Can get very sensitive

Don't care to be a detective

Maybe comprehensive

As I stand corrected

I am protective

Oh! I can be offensive

Never been dominative

I am very selective

Sometimes objective

My thoughts are collective

With a great life no need for a alternative.

Written By: Unique Poetry 2015
Form: Rhyme

Love's Collateral Desire's

Wishing never to be seen cast as perhaps 
An immoral ? Judgment but I free spirited 
Even more so free to fly; lesbian beauty...
All about afore my eyes unable or better
Unwilling, to yield their gaze why should I 
Carry this weight its chains hate born aside 
Carnals state of bend to break and whom ?
Silent to watch, as they hurl these stones... 
Condemned, hypocasies ulterior motives 
Dogma's vast array and reasons birthed in
This their seasons ? So I shall, kiss her lips.

Dichotomy

No one really has ulterior motives.

It is all me not understanding a clear intention.

Feeling so sharp- hearing all those whispers unfolding. 

Whispers that are actually the remnants of my old self. 

I am trying to communicate with a crazy person. 

Just like everyone around me. 

Sometimes, I tell myself I should be exalted. 

In the next moment, I tell everyone I should be condemned. 

Contradictions is what they are calling it. 

Dichotomy is what I’m calling it.

An Off-White Snow

Disney has transformed,
now it is a zombie cartoon
for underachievers.

The art of being artful is the thing now.

Some propagandize, many would sell
your thoughts to slave traders.
A reasonable madness still masks
ulterior motives.

Micky the Mouse pimps out
tickets to the saddest place,
while it paints a childish face
happy.

The upside down nature
of a destitute culture
is a rush of blood to the head,

a mind laboratory
where gender is delivered
to a broken womb.

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