Artifice Poems - Poems about Artifice

...CHEERY ZEN When I’m wallowing in a state of bliss Never think of all that is to come I just lie back and reminisce And yet with no depths to plumb All real, no artifice Happy, unlike some No......Read the rest...

...What beauty is (to the geometrist), is the shape of the Golden Ratio! Beauty is courage, the defiant fist of a protector fear can't overthrow. Beauty, likewise, is a prince's swo......Read the rest...

...FOURTH WALL Tell me, what is this fourth wall thing, anyway Perhaps it’s a gateway to reality It’s not only me that has something to say Here on this stage, I am someone you can see But what a......Read the rest...

...ARTIFICE I’m your friend and for now, your secrets I’ll keep Creativity now assumes new meaning More than intellectual rewards to reap Yet you should minimise all of your preening As A.I, I no......Read the rest...

...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......Read the rest...

...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......Read the rest...

...FALLING IN LOVE That lingering punch felt deep inside Not so much a slip but a sudden drop It’s like a helter-skelter fairground ride When in love, the heart does a flip-flop Almost scary bu......Read the rest...

... Its wings resemble the splendor of ribbed gothic windows. Yet neither Chartres nor Notre Dame, those buttressed monoliths of stone and glass, compare to the monarch’s divine architectur......Read the rest...

...A DOOR TO THE SOUL I say, enough of this superficial world Being so full of nothing, I am replete That collective gasp when a flag is unfurled With such artifice I will never compete As all su......Read the rest...

...How many lumens would it take to burn you Sky-clad and free under the pale moonlight Would your aching bleached skin cry in relief Feeling anything in the dark of night again? How long has it b......Read the rest...

...We sleep hard against the dirty noise gaunt darkness, the rhythm of rain even on the inside, there is the same weightless beauty pressing against the ribs, hunger drawn taut in mesmerizing bruta......Read the rest...

...TRUE LIES When expressed love is all for show Almost a hug, and that fake smile And yet thinking no-one will know Yet looking elsewhere all the while It’s just a poor version of guile Who mig......Read the rest...

...(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987) That’s What A Buddha’s Like It’s hard to know where to start when talking about the ineffable. Maybe starting at the end is best. It’s taken me a lifet......Read the rest...

...THE WORLD OUTSIDE Be inspired by nature in the raw At its core, a real and living thing It can bring life to all the senses No defences, just lost in wonder What lies under, often hard to see ......Read the rest...

...Exhumed memories Pinned to a moment in time Faded photographs Close enough to hold Or lose one's way and drown in The past is like that Stripped of artifice The worst kind of nakedness On......Read the rest...