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Stratagems Poems - Poems about Stratagems

No More Mister Gneiss Guy

...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories: stratagems, relationship,
Form: Verse

THE CRADLE

...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
 I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
 I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
 My distress illuminated...
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Categories: stratagems, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberRefurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Pig, Little Pig

...When the wolf applied nicely
If he could come in,
The pigs replied thricely he shouldn't.
Then they scratched at the hairs
On their chinny chin chins,
And tightly bolted the door so he wouldn't....
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Categories: stratagems, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Heeling Mephistopheles

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"Heeling Mephistopheles" 

murdering crows
flies in on the bow 
of a Stradivarius 

strange webs cleared
from the mind of 
Machiavellian insolence 

insisting life wri...
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Categories: stratagems, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Truth

...Mutter is an aggregate requisite to glimpse the truth.
Potential suspicions may dwell on a bitter deception. 
Each zillion times a single syllable is pronounced.
If this was the case, ...
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Categories: stratagems, analogy, bereavement, encouraging, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberIlliquid New Moon

...signal of approaching cataclysm?
we can't see the gauntlet
it's past the cunning poison
a villain of his own timeline

piqued by an illiquid New Moon
Level 2 risk for severe stratagems
Earth b...
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Categories: stratagems, dark, earth, society, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Maelstrom

...A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature. 
The blackened police the striders in the dark… 
a crippled plaything, 
a hymn of the tourniquet and tethers. 
...an earth-bound deities song. ...
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Categories: stratagems, adventure, allegory, art, class,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpecial Moments By Grand Minter

...A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,” as Herbert says, fine nets and stratagem...
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Categories: stratagems, joy,
Form: Kyrielle

Common Sense

...troubled youth
void of couth 
non-cognizant of devious stratagems
possessing them
in hidden silence 
keeping alive — the violence 

causin' mother's to mourn
mourn the loss of their precious ...
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Categories: stratagems, black african american, character,
Form: Rhyme

A Plethora of Myopia and Hysteria

...The truth like stark reality remains immutable
Despite attempts to promote sophisms
Dressed up as verity and verisimilitude at a high table
Where misguided minds dabble at euphenisms and cynicisms...
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Categories: stratagems, poems,
Form: Free verse

Sitting By the Pool Until the Devil Drops By

...For an instant we are sunned and golden, lounging by the pool,
An arch suspended like a bridge, or cathedral, above our satisfaction,
And while eyes behind sunglasses narrow to slumber
Our dreams ...
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Categories: stratagems, death, destiny, dream, evil,
Form: Free verse

As It Is

...AS IT IS

I am going up the ladder of life.
Killing all the blow flies in sight.
Knocking down the spider webs as I sing to myself.
I am feeling so alive.

I am going to put up new she...
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Categories: stratagems, appreciation, culture, future, image,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIt Ain'T My Fault!

...It all began with Adam and Eve and that wily snake!
Eve was tempted and ate the fruit - that was the first mistake!
Adam was right there at her side and took a generous bite as well.
"'Tis Thy fau...
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Categories: stratagems, funny
Form: Rhyme

Nucleotides and Stratagems

...Up the slope, I climb the vista
to elevate my placid view.
Beneath my feet, the bed soil sighs
while dropping beads of morning dew.

At the summit, my breath charging,
I bask in such a dimpled ...
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Categories: stratagems, inspirational
Form: Rhyme

Stratagem

...If the foe is far too strong for you today,
just save your strength, backtrack very cautiously
that you may still live to fight another day;

go back to the drawing board immediately,
a prudent ...
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Categories: stratagems, political, war, work,
Form: Terza Rima

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