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Poetry: The masks we wear

• 1 of 172

  by Mike Patrick

  MASK

  I wear a mask of wisdom,
  Yet can not control my life.
  I wear a mask of courage
  That crumbles 'for my wife.

  I weave a life

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• 2 of 172

  by Tanya Stoklosa

  A Closer Look

  When riddled by behavior
  You don't understand
  When you're reaching out
  To give someone a hand

  When someone says

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• 3 of 172

  by Cynthia Jones

  The Masks We Wear
  
  What is it, this mask we wear?
  Hiding behind who we really are,
  trying to keep ourselves from the outside

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• 4 of 172

  by James Rutherford

  Women

  what color are your eyes today
  the windows to your soul
  more brown, or green, or blue, or gray
  what secrets to unfold

  what

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• 5 of 172

  by Jayne Scott

  So cool, debonair,

  what lies beneath,

  the masks we wear.

  
  

  While pretending, defending,

  to our inner self,

  false messages

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Poetry: The masks we wear