Smoke And Mirrors Poems - Poems about Smoke And Mirrors

("Perception/Reality Merit Badge" #62, 2015, original oil) Smoke and Mirrors Amid the flux Of shimmering sound and vision Someone is lying Is it your eyes Is it your ears Is it those pulling the levers And splicing the tapes Or is it all of the above? In the end It’s not the lying that matters Since that’s what senses And people do It’s the believing That will get you...

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You were the person looking back in the mirror I didn’t love you I fell in love with myself who was inside of you How could you be loved when I had deemed my very heart & soul as unlovable? Unworthy of human touch & interaction? How can someone be that absurd & still receive the world?...

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while letting the great magician pull a white fluffy rabbit from out of a black stove top hat with a sleight of hand only through the dark arts of blue smoke and mirrors...

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lies and obfuscation revenge politics game of the day extremists s p l i t hold hostage the government power money self-aggrandizement ...

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smoke aflame, infused clouding, signaling, inhaling fume, billow, reflections, reminiscent distorting, imaging, magnifying ...

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I sold my memory for a present reframed The past in revision —the future in shame (Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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The more we think we know, the more deceived we truly become Accumulating knowledge —the deception of time (Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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Smoke and mirrors, That’s all you ever were. Bathing in the river of illusion. In the eleventh hour, Is when your loyalties turned. You’re a Bloody artist, Painting me a fool for your own amusement. Playing with fire always leaves a burn. Ignorance keeps the monsters away. Never wanted this to begin with. Should’ve listened to my conscience. You’re the professional illusionist. I’m unconsciously laying with a...

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Smoke and Mirrors They promised her a future bright She crossed the river with her tribe The war was bloody At stake were the land distribution and innocent lives Her Armenian lover was left behind in her motherland. She was Turkish She lived in hope, he would join her soon. Some months passed. No news came from her lover. Her father said the...

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"Full on prison reforms he says" He means ,we wanna lock up more With smoke and mirrors they mean to confuse us When enslaving peoples the family business They feed on sorrow, and on hate They've got the keys,they'll build the gates Unhappily living in a cell of their making Don't want us having fun and procreating As long as we're this side,and...

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Let's live in a fairytale, you can chase away the dragons, who's smoke breathes to life, the nightmares in my dreams. I can be your Princess, You can hold me in your arms, Like a Knight in shinning armor, And hush away my screams. No more wasted time, with smoke and mirrors, You're not a Court Jester, lets speak the truth. Will you...

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Who am I , nightmare of dreamers, lover of sweet lies, whisperer of fears, collecter of tears, Mr. Smoke and Mirrors, she said, I smiled and told her another beautiful lie...

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I wonder was it ever as i did belive. Was it more than a midnight encounter something that fuels a drunks thoughts and emptys his pockets fater than a closing time bar bill. As from the street I view the place I so often spent my nights looking down at the misfits I...

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Smoke and mirrors Fill my lungs The smoke seeps I gasp for air The mirrors mutilate Cutting my inside But you were all I had to breathe And you were all smoke and mirrors...

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Smoke and mirrors man the barricade Between us with tricks of the dusk drizzled light; And formulates hold to the moments purloined, Hold to the moments, hold good and tight. For distance is nothing but veils of smoke, Mirrored, refracted a crafted delusion; And love such as ours compose...

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