Best Masks Poems

On buses, trains, crowds
they must be worn, but then we
always do, don’t we!...

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Blood masks the lea, the blasted loam
upon whose breasts soldiers came home.
The earth, herself, held each to chest
the mist of sky killed with each breath
as...

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Darkness uttermost
Howl gobblins, gooks, grinch and ghost
Dripping touch of night

Blood like curdled light
Candle tears, white serpents hiss
Shadowing the mist

Hell has broken free
Behind the masked jubilee
Of...

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They never change
These vassals of venom
If only their cups could hold love
Instead of water
Then gardens could bloom in valleys and deserts
As the seeds of love...

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No More Masks  (Nothing to do with the contest)


I had no idea, when we met in the park
that you'd draw a heart in the...

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All songs a poet can sing,
All masks a poet can wear,
All seasons a poet can live,
And all wars a poet can fight.

Colorless is the mask...

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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To the Masks we Wear all Mortals beware
We all hide what we are from all sight
Why do we stay in fright?
Aren't we proud of what...

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Oh, venerable mask on high!
You have replaced, my God, so do come nigh.

Of hand-sanitizers do I religiously sing.
No church, no God, I adore social distancing!

I...

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Masks on the hill
masks in the gutter
used and wrinkled
new age garden
where everyone's beautiful

masks under the shell
shift them around
let the blind guess which one
cloaks the truth...

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Heaven's storms of fury see behind bland masks of deceit....

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The children whose skin was brown
Had no choice in how they lived
Taken at a young age to serve a man
Who took all they had as...

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Fact Or Fool Who be You

I have seen
fools ranting 
what's up Pink Floyd
No thinkers, no education 
only poets with muse and frustration

The deniers of science
are...

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Autumn's, veil, misty,
Intrigue prowls-horror’s echo,
Halloween's chill creeps.

Masked-truth’s cleaver guise,
Secrets whisper ‘mongst shadows,
Fear stalks-night’s cruel jest....

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So many things for us to do today
Here’s a few, what do you say

Call an old friend 
And discuss remember whens

Send out some smiles
Watch them...

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