Poems about Manipulation
#manipulation
Here you'll find poems about manipulation and manipulative behaviour. Poetry about feeling manipulated by another persons clever and devious mind games. Also poems about shamelessly manipulating other people for pleasure or gain. Poetry exploring the effects and repercussions of unscrupulous manipulation.
AverageJoe
Poem Published
15th Apr 2024 10:06pm
15th Apr 2024 10:06pm
Today
Oh what drab, colorless roils drape the sky
As the sky, ashen, grey faced the sun
Clouds billowing
Spread out as tho' to compass all
The sun, the moon, and stars do hide
Those lamps of heavens reaffirming light
Tho' not darkest all -
Not as dark as familiar men's souls
Now conspiracy and conceit do creep
As knavery, treachery, like the worm doth crawl
Burrowing archly in soft rot
Not as men who on stout legs stand
Thin voices hiss the birthing of death
So discourse this discordant band
Full of hubris and cold...
As the sky, ashen, grey faced the sun
Clouds billowing
Spread out as tho' to compass all
The sun, the moon, and stars do hide
Those lamps of heavens reaffirming light
Tho' not darkest all -
Not as dark as familiar men's souls
Now conspiracy and conceit do creep
As knavery, treachery, like the worm doth crawl
Burrowing archly in soft rot
Not as men who on stout legs stand
Thin voices hiss the birthing of death
So discourse this discordant band
Full of hubris and cold...
#men
#betrayal
#manipulation #deception
#manipulation #deception
219 reads
2 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
15th Apr 2024 1:39pm
15th Apr 2024 1:39pm
bait & switch team
15 of 30
she tells them she's not looking to get involved
that they should just keep it moving
they insist they aren't either
...they just want to be friends
& isn't it just conceit on her part...to presume
but she's so often been driven down this well-traveled road
...knows where it probably leads
...& how it will likely end
her constant response to this accusation
to a sense of over-inflated ego
...is always the same
it might be...I am too full of myself...
...if it hadn't so frequently proven...
she tells them she's not looking to get involved
that they should just keep it moving
they insist they aren't either
...they just want to be friends
& isn't it just conceit on her part...to presume
but she's so often been driven down this well-traveled road
...knows where it probably leads
...& how it will likely end
her constant response to this accusation
to a sense of over-inflated ego
...is always the same
it might be...I am too full of myself...
...if it hadn't so frequently proven...
#women
#men
#manipulation
#deception
#NaPoWriMo2024
206 reads
4 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
13th Apr 2024 5:44pm
13th Apr 2024 5:44pm
Welcome to the Party Chapter 20
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
156 reads
4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
12th Apr 2024 12:49pm
12th Apr 2024 12:49pm
Disdain for you my sweet
Wretched but beautiful
My eyes see you but I look away
Throw yourself into a den of lions
I'll bring the popcorn and goobers
Will they eat you or spit you out
Your flesh is bitter and diseased
To much negativity and malignancy
How can one walk around with such a tainted soul?
Bless yourself in my river of urine
That's what I think of you anyway
Take it, accept it
That's all your worth
Go home and drown yourself in your bottomless, endless self pity
Have a great weekend
My eyes see you but I look away
Throw yourself into a den of lions
I'll bring the popcorn and goobers
Will they eat you or spit you out
Your flesh is bitter and diseased
To much negativity and malignancy
How can one walk around with such a tainted soul?
Bless yourself in my river of urine
That's what I think of you anyway
Take it, accept it
That's all your worth
Go home and drown yourself in your bottomless, endless self pity
Have a great weekend
#hate
#SelfHarm
#fiction
#TruthOfLife
#manipulation
178 reads
13 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
11th Apr 2024 3:43am
11th Apr 2024 3:43am
Welcome to the Party Chapter 19
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
129 reads
2 Comments
Thetravelingfairy
Poem Published
5th Apr 2024 11:18pm
5th Apr 2024 11:18pm
My Own Tear Tracks
I have managed to step outside
Numb skin waking to a March morning
My eyes troubled, still
Pupils dilate and constrict at a heartbeat tempo
That changes time signatures
Measure by grueling measure
I don’t notice music
I’d been curled too long
Paralyzed and voiceless, from that accursed drink
Still wearing off, I think
There are potholes in my mind
Of moments felt, moments seen,
Some I heard still whispering
And I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing
But it is a feeling buried inside
Spiking my senses ...
Numb skin waking to a March morning
My eyes troubled, still
Pupils dilate and constrict at a heartbeat tempo
That changes time signatures
Measure by grueling measure
I don’t notice music
I’d been curled too long
Paralyzed and voiceless, from that accursed drink
Still wearing off, I think
There are potholes in my mind
Of moments felt, moments seen,
Some I heard still whispering
And I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing
But it is a feeling buried inside
Spiking my senses ...
#abuse
#alcohol
#confusion
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2024
226 reads
1 Comment
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
5th Apr 2024 7:23pm
5th Apr 2024 7:23pm
Welcome to the Party Chapter 18
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
125 reads
2 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
4th Apr 2024 10:45pm
4th Apr 2024 10:45pm
Welcome to the Party Chapter 17
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
113 reads
2 Comments
Northern1
Poem Published
4th Apr 2024 9:04pm
4th Apr 2024 9:04pm
Fear
Be afraid
Be very afraid
Wake up afraid
Pass the day afraid
Go to sleep afraid
Live your life afraid
And Obey
Be very afraid
Wake up afraid
Pass the day afraid
Go to sleep afraid
Live your life afraid
And Obey
#anxiety
#manipulation
#fear
258 reads
8 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2024 4:53pm
3rd Apr 2024 4:53pm
Welcome to the Party Chapter 16
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
122 reads
2 Comments
Isgyppie_
Poem Published
2nd Apr 2024 12:56pm
2nd Apr 2024 12:56pm
Amiss
I opened up to you like
A barn door in the first
Of Spring
Exposed my fresh timber
To the cold gusts of your speech
You promised light
When all you ever brought
Was damp and heavy
You told me that I should
Believe in things unseen,
Like god and your truth.
I warped my brain to
Disarray to be approved
Did that make you feel powerful?
Or do you feel as rotten
As what you always produced?
I am still trying to freeze dry
The black mold you spread within me
While trying to convince...
A barn door in the first
Of Spring
Exposed my fresh timber
To the cold gusts of your speech
You promised light
When all you ever brought
Was damp and heavy
You told me that I should
Believe in things unseen,
Like god and your truth.
I warped my brain to
Disarray to be approved
Did that make you feel powerful?
Or do you feel as rotten
As what you always produced?
I am still trying to freeze dry
The black mold you spread within me
While trying to convince...
#abuse
#MeToo
#metaphor
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2024
251 reads
4 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
2nd Apr 2024 5:50am
2nd Apr 2024 5:50am
Welcome to the Party Chapter 15
#lust
#dreams
#passion #manipulation
#passion #manipulation
126 reads
2 Comments
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