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Unmasks Poems - Poems about Unmasks

Premium MemberTears 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

Premium MemberBotticelli 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

Premium MemberWhere did Faith go

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   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

Premium MemberParty 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

Premium MemberLove 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

Premium MemberTalented

...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

Premium MemberIf 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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