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.
peninnah
Poem Published
10th Jan 2024 4:38pm
10th Jan 2024 4:38pm
PRAYING MANTIS
Oh! I fear for some yo' dear brothers!
Sexy ladies hanging 'round y'all
Giving 'good loving' faster than you open the safe
Moving in before you give 'em key
A baby in the Kiln and just like that you're marked!
"Let's take life insurance baby," She convince you. "just incase something happens..."
Oh yeah! You gonna happen;
Accusations of misconduct, battery charge... you know how they crawl!
Before long you depressed, drinking too much, in acrimonious divorce or behind bars
Which is preferable to rotting away in a coffin...
Sexy ladies hanging 'round y'all
Giving 'good loving' faster than you open the safe
Moving in before you give 'em key
A baby in the Kiln and just like that you're marked!
"Let's take life insurance baby," She convince you. "just incase something happens..."
Oh yeah! You gonna happen;
Accusations of misconduct, battery charge... you know how they crawl!
Before long you depressed, drinking too much, in acrimonious divorce or behind bars
Which is preferable to rotting away in a coffin...
#lies
#betrayal
#manipulation #deception
#manipulation #deception
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Maple666
Poem Published
7th Jan 2024 4:57pm
7th Jan 2024 4:57pm
ADDICT .
You are my strength and my weak spot .
My drug of choice and my cure .
You are everything I desire. My lucky charm
and equally my biggest nightmares but still
I would willingly lay down my life for you .
Or just as easily live a life with you . I’m
an addict at your whim and I wonder
whether you will be my demise hung drawn
and quartered for my weakness. Or will
I conquer your walls and smile at your defeat .
I’m not sure this is unimpaired but I know too
I only feel healed with you . An addict doesn’t ...
My drug of choice and my cure .
You are everything I desire. My lucky charm
and equally my biggest nightmares but still
I would willingly lay down my life for you .
Or just as easily live a life with you . I’m
an addict at your whim and I wonder
whether you will be my demise hung drawn
and quartered for my weakness. Or will
I conquer your walls and smile at your defeat .
I’m not sure this is unimpaired but I know too
I only feel healed with you . An addict doesn’t ...
#secrets
#lies
#escape
#bittersweet
#manipulation
320 reads
2 Comments
APissPoorShaman
Ryszard
Ryszard
Poem Published
2nd Jan 2024 7:27pm
2nd Jan 2024 7:27pm
The Transparent Vestments of Narcissistic Indifference
Shackled on the cold hard stone of your mind,
welcoming the sacrificial knife, weeping as rituals steal my heart,
giving all for love
-
Priestess of the sun god of your need,
devout belief in the morality of your greed,
erecting a tower of skulls you are freed
-
Empathy and compassion do not worship Huitzilopochtli,
shapeshifting god once appearing as Gaia or Kali,
resplendent in the transparent vestments of your narcissistic indifference.
-
take this...
welcoming the sacrificial knife, weeping as rituals steal my heart,
giving all for love
-
Priestess of the sun god of your need,
devout belief in the morality of your greed,
erecting a tower of skulls you are freed
-
Empathy and compassion do not worship Huitzilopochtli,
shapeshifting god once appearing as Gaia or Kali,
resplendent in the transparent vestments of your narcissistic indifference.
-
take this...
#anger
#betrayal
#disappointment
#manipulation
#deception
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Countrygirl96
Poem Published
27th Dec 2023 4:18am
27th Dec 2023 4:18am
Tricked
One day you'll realize you were never supposed to belong in their clique, they tricked you because your struggle and failures brought them humor and joy.
#heartbroken
#SelfDiscovery
#manipulation
199 reads
1 Comment
Darkwitch3
Poem Published
16th Dec 2023 2:11pm
16th Dec 2023 2:11pm
Just left of hell
You were interested in control
So paranoid to lose your grip
Afraid that I might wonder too far?
So scared you held too tight.
You created a Hell
You created the lies
You created your reality
You created my misery
I pleaded for your help
I pleaded for you to step up
I pleaded for you to stop wasting time
I pleaded with tears and distance.
Don't blame me that you promised
Don't blame me that I got tired of waiting
Don't blame me that you didn't add up
Don't blame me that you failed on so many levels ...
So paranoid to lose your grip
Afraid that I might wonder too far?
So scared you held too tight.
You created a Hell
You created the lies
You created your reality
You created my misery
I pleaded for your help
I pleaded for you to step up
I pleaded for you to stop wasting time
I pleaded with tears and distance.
Don't blame me that you promised
Don't blame me that I got tired of waiting
Don't blame me that you didn't add up
Don't blame me that you failed on so many levels ...
#relationships
#abuse
#manipulation
234 reads
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CasketSharpe
Poem Published
12th Dec 2023 7:35pm
12th Dec 2023 7:35pm
Forbidden Honey
#dark
#erotic
#manipulation
331 reads
4 Comments
APissPoorShaman
Ryszard
Ryszard
Poem Published
12th Dec 2023 5:40pm
12th Dec 2023 5:40pm
We think, therefore we are
-
"I'm a free man, not a number"
words echoing in the dark
once reality and anthem
now just a dusty and worn out dream
beg
get down on your knees and beg
lick the boots from your gilded cage
how dare you...
talk about biology
or race
or IQ
pretending we are free
when we cease to be useful, we will cease to be
and we will never see it coming
... because it's already here
we have been shorn and herded, taught what to believe
we are killed off at...
"I'm a free man, not a number"
words echoing in the dark
once reality and anthem
now just a dusty and worn out dream
beg
get down on your knees and beg
lick the boots from your gilded cage
how dare you...
talk about biology
or race
or IQ
pretending we are free
when we cease to be useful, we will cease to be
and we will never see it coming
... because it's already here
we have been shorn and herded, taught what to believe
we are killed off at...
#dark
#death
#TruthOfLife
#hypocrisy
#manipulation
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AutoDice
Poem Published
9th Dec 2023 1:39am
9th Dec 2023 1:39am
Woven Heart of String: Missing Thimble
Unbroken ballerina shoes on stage, demonstrating our foreboding relationship.
A chime from the outside wind, that sounds vaguely of freedom.
With every careful close caress, a poisoned word leaves the tip of my lips in this disconsolately lit room.
Crack, crack, crack.
My string is broken, as they cannot mend.
They are as defective as those who created themself.
My cheap porcelain joints crack everytime I hold you close.
Closer, closer, closer.
They wanted you to learn more, more about my secrets and the ones I’ve taken...
A chime from the outside wind, that sounds vaguely of freedom.
With every careful close caress, a poisoned word leaves the tip of my lips in this disconsolately lit room.
Crack, crack, crack.
My string is broken, as they cannot mend.
They are as defective as those who created themself.
My cheap porcelain joints crack everytime I hold you close.
Closer, closer, closer.
They wanted you to learn more, more about my secrets and the ones I’ve taken...
#abuse
#emptiness
#manipulation #deception
#manipulation #deception
252 reads
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LunasChild8
Poem Published
8th Dec 2023 00:10am
8th Dec 2023 00:10am
Compromise
Silence is your daily greeting
I shouldn’t have expected something different
Did I satisfy your usual craving?
Your eyes no longer shine even when you pay me a compliment.
I’m sick and tired of making this compromise
I can’t keep up with these mixed signals you’re sending me
You used to beam with love; now you’re as cold as ice
My life and blood are oozing out of the seams.
Take it or leave it; it’s your problem that you got bored
You keep on making the same mistake; why do you complain?
Life’s too short to stall; make your way out...
I shouldn’t have expected something different
Did I satisfy your usual craving?
Your eyes no longer shine even when you pay me a compliment.
I’m sick and tired of making this compromise
I can’t keep up with these mixed signals you’re sending me
You used to beam with love; now you’re as cold as ice
My life and blood are oozing out of the seams.
Take it or leave it; it’s your problem that you got bored
You keep on making the same mistake; why do you complain?
Life’s too short to stall; make your way out...
#anger
#conflict
#rhyming
#separation
#manipulation
375 reads
7 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
2nd Dec 2023 3:09am
2nd Dec 2023 3:09am
Patient Zero
As if by a vampiric bite
fresh rage transfers from brain to brain
in right cerebra fight or flight
as undead psychic virus pain;
bloodborne by iron pathogen
the right cerebra thinks it's right
to act just like an ape again
when rage will one more rage invite
like Dracula into the home
of probity, peace, and its joy...
to spread, like rabies in a foam,
or Trojan horse Greek troops deploy
when plunder is the main conceit
for rapacity and its deceit.
fresh rage transfers from brain to brain
in right cerebra fight or flight
as undead psychic virus pain;
bloodborne by iron pathogen
the right cerebra thinks it's right
to act just like an ape again
when rage will one more rage invite
like Dracula into the home
of probity, peace, and its joy...
to spread, like rabies in a foam,
or Trojan horse Greek troops deploy
when plunder is the main conceit
for rapacity and its deceit.
#TruthOfLife
#manipulation
236 reads
4 Comments
Oslynray
Rosalyn
Rosalyn
Poem Published
30th Nov 2023 6:28pm
30th Nov 2023 6:28pm
The Chase
Got my eye on a prize
And I won’t stop til I win it
Gonna give this shit my all:
I’m removing all competition.
I’m intoxicated,
Infatuated and some more…
So I’m gonna chase this one down,
Make sure I get her for sure.
She seems like a nice girl.
Let me pretend to be the same.
Seems like her heads on straight,
Wonder if she’ll see through my game?
Ima just tell her something good.
Ima tell her something sweet.
Ima buy her some flowers…
Maybe take her out to eat.
Mmm.
Can’t wait to get in...
And I won’t stop til I win it
Gonna give this shit my all:
I’m removing all competition.
I’m intoxicated,
Infatuated and some more…
So I’m gonna chase this one down,
Make sure I get her for sure.
She seems like a nice girl.
Let me pretend to be the same.
Seems like her heads on straight,
Wonder if she’ll see through my game?
Ima just tell her something good.
Ima tell her something sweet.
Ima buy her some flowers…
Maybe take her out to eat.
Mmm.
Can’t wait to get in...
#confusion
#manipulation
253 reads
2 Comments
thinlane
Poem Published
26th Nov 2023 4:22pm
26th Nov 2023 4:22pm
The Drama
It's just another scene
Going down in the drama of my life
This one is supposed to break my heart
But I find that I don't care
Too much drama has deadened my emotions
Too many tears and way too many raised voices
I can't bring myself to get mad
You might just as well save your breath
I guess it's goodbye
Hello hello
Do you hear what I say
Over your strident cry
And the tears fall hot and heavy
But I don't care about any of it
It's nothing new to me at all
So I close my heart to it
Goodbye...
Going down in the drama of my life
This one is supposed to break my heart
But I find that I don't care
Too much drama has deadened my emotions
Too many tears and way too many raised voices
I can't bring myself to get mad
You might just as well save your breath
I guess it's goodbye
Hello hello
Do you hear what I say
Over your strident cry
And the tears fall hot and heavy
But I don't care about any of it
It's nothing new to me at all
So I close my heart to it
Goodbye...
#manipulation
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