Poetry: False pretenses - by Toadee

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by Toadee

Created on: May 17, 2010

Tell my friends
I'm out.....or ill, or indisposed
The kids are ill
make sure the teacher knows
Excuse my absence
tell my boss I have to go
my grandma's ill (again)
and her demise is very slow.
If mother rings
tell her I'm in the bath
make sure you sue the council
for that lumpy path.
If my sister asks
I've dropped another size
But don't play me false in love
the one thing I hate is lies.

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WHITE LIES

She gazed beyond him with pale and lacklustre eyes as though he wasn’t there
He shone his combat boots and
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by Melissa D. Ing

Stealthily you approached me
Tried to dazzle with your appeal
We were two disgruntled souls
Did you take me as a fool?

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by Beat Spiccoli

I am my sober side
Not the one you see
Drinking a slow suicide
I am not really me

I am my sorrier side
Not the one you
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Your smile came to me unexpected.

Your deceit showed not even a trace.

Though your eyes really tried to convince me.

Your
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by Tyrone Graham

Pretensed

I cannot know

what you mean

when you speak;

moreover, the pen, once the symbol

of learning, wisdom and communication,

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