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Premium Member A Recipe For Little White Lies Hermit Crab Poetry

Ingredients: 

1. One pinch of sugar (Honey can sub)
2. A dash of what works
3. 1/2 teaspoon of table salt ( Or sea salt )
4. 1 large egg   (Egg whites for real)

Instructions:

1. Mix them together until light and fluffy.  
2. Flatten the lumps out, soften the sharpness
3. Blend until the texture mellows the taste of reality. 
 
Secret sauce: Seven spices to taste.
Just don’t tell what they really are. EVER.

Little White Lies

Lies, the woven webs, of those who practice to deceive,
oh the lies that’s told, to whomsoever will believe.
 Lies work hard, to take your heart earned trust,
then behind your back, it’s under foot, in dust.
 Lies, like little white lies, oh the lies that be,
even at the most, the lies through the centuries.
 Destroyer’s with words, and killers of the heart,
and in this, have we not all, played our part.
 Lies, they kill, they steal, and destroy you see,
appearing to be good things, then brings forth their misery.
 Just like the spider, their webs, they never leave,
and the first ones fooled, is those who practice to deceive.

White Lies

I've heard many talk about honesty,
As though it is the best quality.

I know I hoped to be truthful, 
But deep inside I acknowledge I was only brutal.
I've told them the horrible things many have done, 
As a hypocrite, one could assume I held an empty gun. 

I could pull the trigger, 
But the bullet wouldn't speed past,
The only real difference would be the expressions so vast. 

This would make me a liar, 
but isn't that what the performance arts are?
the production is based on lies, but it seems as though it is the truth from afar. 

Would being a liar truly be a sin?
If being truthful is what makes others hurt within. 
One could consider every lie white,
For it may be the wrong words,
 but compared to the honest, a liars' intentions are right.


Justice denied is justice bred from white lies

Mourning the wicked is something I'll never do
The death of evil will always be long overdue
There is no shame in the joy of a dead threat
If we celebrate, we will not tolerate judgement 
You laugh over black death as if it is irrelevant 
So why would we care about the death of a white supremacist

All the empathy went to a white man
Did the bank run out for the innocent black man
Or is it just a privilege only whites get
And us black people get left with the debt
They'll label evil as a martyr 
As long as its face is the colour of paper

Humanised is the oppressors 
Yet the oppressed are labelled the aggressors 
Justice favours those with privilege 
And the true victims are met with disdain and discrimination 
A backwards society -
Where no one cares if you are innocent 
If you are a black person

Premium Member White Lies

Native tribe thrives, they share their lives

Native tribe's school, mother land's rule

Native tribe tries, white man speaks lies

White man makes rule, white man's hand cruel

Native tribe's toil, mother land's oil

White man spies fuel, white man's eyes drool

Tribe's land narrows, white man's arrows

Mother land dies, native tribe cries

White man's hand thrives, white man takes lives

Mother land cries, native tribe dies

Premium Member Black and White Lies

A lie that is coloured white
A lie that make things seem all right.
A lie that leaves you asking why
Discovering those lies that made you cry.

Lies exposed, were meant as a joke
The lies that many hearts have broke.
Lies to conceal a secret love affair
The liars lie, is the truth they swear.

Scheming lies to scam for money
Lies told that were deemed as funny.
Lies can relate to anything 
But often it's pain it tends to bring.

That little white lie that Santa is real
Habitual liars in overkill.
A lie told in kindness to comfort or protect
When a lie is discovered what's the affect?

A good liar will hide it well
Blinds you under their misleading spell.
The question is, why do we lie at all?
Whether they are big, white or small. 

Harmless lies are weaved in white
Cunning lies are black as night.
A lie means intention to deceive
Is it good or bad what a lie tries to achieve?


Premium Member The Disguise in Little White Lies

I never said the fish was that big,
just long enough for your surprise.
Yes, the sky did fall down once -
though not in ways you've come upon.

The art of the little white lie
is a Trojan horse disguised
to catch your attention.
To trick you to pose or question
what you'd never otherwise ask.

The lie, error or mistake,
flips the mind to correction,
demanding reparation.
It works a treat for advertisers
lecturers, presenters, debaters and charlatans.

It begs the question, demeans the ask-er,
but masters the magician's 
conjuring tricks of deception.
A fool takes the bait, 
a wise one casts acting the fool.

White lies

Telling a white lie
Sure is easy, am I right?
But dig further in your mind
Why must you lie?

Is the truth not good enough for you?
When you were a kid
Did you say you wore a tutu
When really, you still slept with your teddy named moo moo

It's alright if the truth isn't cool
But think about the lasting affect
Don't make yourself look like a fool
Be kind and tell them

Premium Member Little White Lies

I'm sorry I lied

But if I told you the truth

Things could get ugly

Premium Member White Lies

You say what they want you to say
and favours will always come your way.

Premium Member White Lie Birds

Backhanded compliments are meant to disturb
Yet on surface pretend to be a polite white bird

Giving fake hazel humor or slighted cranberry concern
When the person pretending to teach needs to learn

Learn the lessons of southern hospitality amber and
If you’re guessing know you can catch these hands

Premium Member White Lies

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Dawns a courtroom closing in on midday, and a cheery sun
uncovering its place being less demanding--a sage who
dons sufficiently in her vocation that imparts one who bears
a respectable position, and one of a high office--so without
delay, the judge withdraws to his chambers for consultations
with the defense attorney and prosecutor, et al., she then
advances towards the lone defendant from her private seat
in the gallery--an officer of the court, immediately takes
notice of her movements and in anticipation presented her
with a chair for her pleasure--the defendant who sees her,
respectfully stands, whereto, she politely informs him that
he may remain seated and air him in a one-sided
conversation being the soul speaker, and he as the soul
listener. Albeit, exceptions to that disclosure evolved at the
end as there is cause for the conversation to become ironic.

*The opener of My Short Story: White Lies, in two parts; I'm 
afeared of old habits unchanged as alit surface, amid dim, and 
aligned depth of mired cliché, sways a gavel 'ere ...

Premium Member White Lies

Today my girlfriend asked me,
How do I look in this dress?
Does it fit me like a glove?
I reluctantly said yes!

Does it make me look younger?
It's just perfect I replied.
So not to hurt her feelings,
I convincingly white lied.

White Lies For Anothers Sake

If you think that life 

Is supposedly supposed to be fair

I can only presume you may have

Taken a wrong turn and ended up
in fools heaven

As again just to me 

It sounds to me like

You or whomever told you

Or lead you into believing that

Has never really actually been

Anywhere near there

But yes for definitely

This I can most honestly and truthfully say

If Frank Sinatra owned the right

To do things his way

Then this is my way 

Of preserving my state of mental health

Not joining hands 

And being lead blindly by the blind 

And yes I take no pride nor joy

For expressing this my view point

Out loud or in a crowd 

As would nothing more nor less

Than for the above mentioned

Statement of the world to be true

But due to the fact it isn't

And I see it quite patently ain't 

Id much rather choose 

Not to make it any further worse

By acknowledging 

And predicating this

Unholy lie

Pink Moon, Black Cat, White Lies

My black cat accompanies me 
Home from the mailbox
As if to make sure that
The peach-colored pink moon
Won’t choose tonight
To take me

It peeks, head tilted
From behind the old church
Justly fearful of my familiar
Who sashays among the shadows

I want to say to him
You may be made of darkness,
My pet, but you do not belong
To the night, as I do

There is a brief interlude
In which God creates
The lights of the heavens again
Lest I forget

And I am back on my porch
The moon is higher now
Its blush gone
No longer shy, it lies cradled
In bare branches
Cat inside, I linger alone
And wonder
If I could ever belong to the light.

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