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Premium Member Let Truth Burn Away Your Deceptive Cloak, Sonnet Doubles
Sonnet Doubles:

First sonnet

Let Truth Burn Away Your Deceptive Cloak

Let truth burn away your deceptive cloak
lower vanity's shield, go have a smoke,
even if, a diamond, in...

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Categories: deceptive, art, deep, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Motionless Is Deceptive
The frost is in my toes, 
                  ...

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Categories: deceptive, introspection, nature, seasons, space,
Form: Free verse
Deceptive Sunshine
Sunshine's like warmth, an inviting glow
No jacket today let's play, let's go!!
Retreat, retreat it's cold!
Child looking outside bold
Coolness and shivers hear the wind blow.

Cocoa and...

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Categories: deceptive, childhood
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Deceptive Lover
I read your lover’s poetry,
And saw his deceptive way.
He manipulated your emotions,
Which makes me angry I must say.

He promised to come and meet you,
He promised...

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Categories: deceptive, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Deceptive Poem
We deceive and we fib,
To fulfil a desire.
We tell ourselves
We aren’t really a liar.

We might be afraid
Of what others suspect,
Of being exposed
As mentally wrecked.

We might...

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Categories: deceptive, conflict, corruption, friendship, society,
Form: Rhyme
Deceptive Snowflake
Soft lazy clouds push down on sky
Clinging to the heavens with solitary resolve
Heavy wet blankets the oblivious wind
Spreading an icy breath of discontent

One Deceptive Snowflake...

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Categories: deceptive, change, metaphor, winter,
Form: Free verse



Never Trust Deceptive Women
You think you're so good 
But later I realize that you are the woman, 
Who is cold, hatred, fury, Insensitive and Calloused? 

You are sinfully...

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Categories: deceptive, heartbroken, love hurts, relationship,
Form: Blitz
Deceptive Calm
Tonight I'll talk too much and try to and complicate my friends.
Distant conversations, eye contact only now and then.
I try and drown myself in futile...

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Categories: deceptive, angst, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member DECEPTIVE BOSOM OF LIFE

This poem is a metaphor.



The crying tires,
the shattered glass,
it all happened,
so very fast.

His life it flashed,
before his eyes,
his life always swaddled, 
in set ups and...

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Categories: deceptive, child abuse, childhood, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Deceptive Entity
Materialistic things fulfill us temporarily...trifling with our emotions, 
but their shallowness is discerned with bitterness:
when they can't save a life even with invoked mercy so...

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Categories: deceptive, introspection, people, sad, science
Form: Sestina
Appearances Are Deceptive
Now I can tell for sure,
That I know a lot about life.
I can tell you something about people
And this opinion is not strict at all.

You...

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Categories: deceptive, introspection, judgement, life, me,
Form: Verse
Deceptive Beauty
From the first moment I laid eyes on her, my vision was forever changed 
Deep thoughts to impress a shallow woman 
Drowning within her lipid...

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Categories: deceptive, addiction, adventure, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Deceptive Save
The mossy green lump juts invitingly
An overhanging face of vertical formation
Moist rocks often kissed by hovering clouds
The steep trek is overwhelmingly dangerous

Fearlessly she set out...

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Categories: deceptive, betrayal, feelings, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Popularity Is Deceptive
Outskirts of the eye,
you have it all together,
grade school--
beauty seems to be
The only factor
birds of a feather-
flock together,
in crowd-
I guess you have 
it made forever,

Until...

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Categories: deceptive, growth,
Form: Free verse
Deceptive Endearments
All I've got now,is a picture of ours 
Kissing me for last time,taken indoors 
Reminiscing the love,I once knew 
the passion and pleasures,which won't renew...

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Categories: deceptive, confusion, lost love, sad,
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry