Poems on the topic: lie

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Summit

a solemn day for lying when the truth dropped what do they shoot at that time of day how high is high

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Dave Bonta

Fearmongers

last night brought back in the mouth of my fear we are not rid of our trouble our whole hate business where a lie is true it is so much rope

Dave Bonta

Speaking truth to power

who follows the lies expressed on all occasions now the art of lying is over guns hear nothing whether in earnest or not

Dave Bonta

Troll bridge

falling all night on me that bridge to morning heart childish as a troll in a paper palace a lie is as much to build with as to laugh down

Dave Bonta

For god and country

joy giving other instructions gives me the building of a ship I soon understand how the war had a lying use

Dave Bonta

Consilience

her lies sing of wheat and honey and then all turd a strange rude life there is among them

Dave Bonta

we are obliged to answer a troll told how winter did not prove so bad as reported or that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind till 12 o’clock at night making an end of right and wrong out of love for the gallows

Dave Bonta

Sailor’s knot

having lived great lies on board two or three ships I go back and find the way home to be this very ash

Dave Bonta

Horseman

all morning in my mind with no compass I turn towards the world going on a delicate stone horse to see the stone faces of the crowd I hear lies enough to make any man sick the oddest present would be a pound of candles for God

Dave Bonta