Tears of a clown
...Don't let the painted layers that were made to make up , stop you from questioning the feelings behind their costumes and gown.
The slightest smudging, by which sympathetic fingers smear, unmasks ...
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Categories:
unmasks, art,
Form: Rhyme
Space
...The passion inside that draws you to speak,
The honesty, the love in truth and loyalty,
Going deeper to see what's inside,
That unmasks the feelings and reveals the world's lies,
This is where yo...
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Categories:
unmasks, beautiful, birth, blessing, giving,
Form: Light Verse
Butterfly's Wander
...Once upon a time
the old songs were new
On prairies unplanted
invaders were few
Where rivers rolled onward
no ferries or towns
All riverboat minstrels
new ages impound
The time of the se...
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Categories:
unmasks, time,
Form: Rhyme
Botticelli Unmasks the Perp
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lost words are wolves hunting
heat from the herd, raw desire
one day less alone
American prom night
youth-swept hair moussed down in place
cigarettes light, poof
there goes Mary's lam...
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Categories:
unmasks, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Where did Faith go
...
Where is she
Where did Faith go
If she's abandoned me
How did she know
Listened so patiently, I did
Made sure I understood
Checked my ego at her gate
O, Faith, ...
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Categories:
unmasks, faith, longing, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Poor Angry Creature
...the angry creature,
always dominated by emotion
reacts badly to everything that unmasks
his ego....
At that moment mediocrely
on the spur of the moment, holds the weapon
and shoots...
kills t...
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Categories:
unmasks, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse
Party Folk Trick
...folklore suggests that one more than just one
constitutes a party because small can be good
fewer can merit merrier times than congestion
and thus enforced Corona not denying its hardships
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Categories:
unmasks, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Love Versus Lust
...Love divine, sovereign in directive
Smites lust, selfish midst carnal perspective…
Though both can be passionately active
True love along life-building objective
Unmasks lust that’s griev...
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Categories:
unmasks, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Monorhyme
Her Eyes
...There’s a power that only certain women have,
a force beyond words to describe
Where your breath is frozen, and your eyes are locked,
with every move freeing her guise
You surrender the only ...
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Categories:
unmasks, power, women,
Form: Rhyme
Talented
...she exits her flute
to rise to the top bleachers —
unmasks a songbird
12/7/2018...
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Categories:
unmasks, music,
Form: Haiku
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Two - Continued
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE - Part Two (continued)
( for sweet-teeth kiddies )
IF you pull a long face
And that too on Halloween Day
Mascara and rouge will drip on lace
And Mom will take...
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Categories:
unmasks, death, destiny, halloween, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Breathe On You
...Maybe we're subjugated to
certain subjects and
I revolve around you
while you reflect on me.
Maybe we are light
and part night.
Energy and passion
overflowing; amassing,
Oceans of sur...
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Categories:
unmasks, kiss, passion,
Form: Free verse
Unveiling of the Soul
...Cold winters day... Shall we play in the snow or stray? Frozen icicles hanging on trees effortlessly in the atmosphere. A frozen atmosphere filled with cold winds whistling ever so loudly. A cold hea...
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Categories:
unmasks, deep, encouraging, growth, inspirational,
Form: ABC
Matthew Scott Harris Unmasks Ha Ha Ha Halloween - Part One
...After becoming confident
(das ernest frank gent) handled ignition
jerryrigged knobs, levers, motors,
nameless other parts quintessentially,
set registers to “understand” vital www xy zone.
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Categories:
unmasks, cat, chocolate, dark, giving,
Form: Free verse
Matthew Scott Harris Unmasks Ha Ha Ha Halloween - Part 2
...frankly zapped after wildly oscillating
in tandem with seven bobble heads and ten French horns)
a devilish trumpeting event
by pre-Christian Celtic festival standards
with a “proto” Don twick or ...
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Categories:
unmasks, addiction, autumn, candy, childhood,
Form: Free verse
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