Lies Poems
So Easy To Hurt Me
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice
How do you find it so easy to hurt me...
When I do everything that you ever ask...
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you...
Not even the most impossible task...
Is it because you take me for granted...
Have I allowed you to play me the fool...
Is it because you truly disrespect me...
Is that why you treat me so cruel...
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Matilda Who Told Lies, And Was Burned To Death
by Hilaire Belloc
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes;
Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
Attempted to Believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her,
And would have done so, had not She
Discovered this Infirmity.
For once, towards the Close of Day,
Matilda, growing tired of play,
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Two Sides To Every Story
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice
Beware of the soft illusions...
While you’re listening to her voice...
It might not be what it all seems...
Beware of making the wrong first choice...
There are two sides to every story...
And sometimes three or four...
But when the story stops adding up...
One must find the nearest door...
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Broken Promises
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice
What happened to us...
My dear sweet girl...
You wanted a ring...
With a diamond and pearl...
You said you always...
Wanted to be my wife...
That you would love us...
Now and throughout our life...
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71. Dear Neighbor
by Kea Campbell
My ears are jaded from the words you put on the street,
And your petulance is exhausting to the candid you mistreat.
My feet hurt from egg shells and your mouth litters hypocracy,
And you deprive yourself of righteous validity by taking pride in fallacious exalting.
You drain life from good people and are a thief of their vitality,
And you pursue an egocentric facade and wed a victim's mentality.
I don't seek a good name, nor do I value a worldly reputation,
But you deceive your circles with yellow journalism and I averse exploitative falsism.
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The Mindless Herd
by Igor Vykhovanets
We just chatter, fools in line,
Chasing women, feeling fine.
Let the world be bleak and hollow—
Winning hearts is all we follow.
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Deines Versprechens Schatten
by Mario Odekerken
Deines Versprechens Gewicht
liegt leer in meiner Hand.
Kein Echo in der Luft,
nur Stille,die such ausbreitet.
Ich wartete auf Richtung,
doch bekam nur Kreise.
Deine Worte-schön verpackt,
aber ohne Inhalt.
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Twisted Tongue
by Mario Odekerken
Words gather like stormclouds
behind my teeth,
eager to leap,
but stumble in the rush.
My tongue,
a contorionist in a narrow cage,
turns truth into tangled thread,
pulls silence from syllables.
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Ewig lebt die Wahrheit
by Mario Odekerken
Die Wahrheit wohnt in stillen Räumen,
vergraben tief in Herz und Geist.
Sie lebt,auch wenn der Mensch sie preist
mit Worten,die nur Lügen säumen.
Sie ist kein Schwert,sie ist kein Schild,
sie braucht kein Heer,kein lautes Schreien.
Inmitten Trug und dunklem Treiben
ist sie das Licht,das niemals schwillt.
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Sodom and Snakes
by Christine Kuruvilla
Vicious lies,
Faded by time,
Exist like green, scaled reptiles—
Slithering through camouflaged crime.
Etched in smoked veins,
Daggered through pink fold,
Leaving blemishes and stains,
And a soul wagered and sold.
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