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xena465
xena465
May 05, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Charlatan

He manifests in the form of a friend
Plays with your mind and sucks you in
You divulge your heart, bare your all
Elation turns to revulsion, you vomit
He's the joker, you're the joke
I laugh, because I'm standing tall
But little does he comprehend
We know he's a rat in a trap, disguised
A rodent, untamed, named; shamed.

When the charlatan knows he's exposed
He takes on the form of another beast
Reels you in like a fish on a hook
Splashing, struggling to slip the line
You're not as gullible as before
In Chess I'm the Queen, but also the Rook
Playing along just for kicks
He becomes the joke, the jester
I'm now the Player, the Slayer.
— xena465, May 05, 2010

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xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thanks UK…much

Thanks UK...much appreciated. Rosina xena465
Seren

Seren

16 years 1 month ago

Dear Rosina

You poem reminded me of a story I heard a long time ago it was to do with a succubus a male one ... your poem sounds a lot like that story well written again ... you are really improving with your poetry hun you should be very proud love and hugs Jayne-Chloe ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 1 month ago

This is absolutely spot

This is absolutely spot on!!!! Brava!! We must be talking about the same character. Be posting it on my blog. Although yours is soooooooooooooooo much better! Hugs, Anna p.s. With heartfelt apologies to your pet rat! "The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses, but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as a creation of his senses." ~ Ernst Mach
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thanks Kail

Charlatans...they know who they are...we can't all be fooled like they think? Rosina xena465
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panaella

16 years 1 month ago

the guilty know who they are...

here! here! and well said... Lets face it, there are some poets out there amongst us on Neo...as the saying goes..."you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time"...their time is up! Xena Princess Warrior! Ells x
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thanks Ells

I said the same thing to Kail...we may appear to be a bit slow on the uptake, but some of us are not. Rosina xena465
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shirley harrison

16 years 1 month ago

well said!

Rosi, this is wonderful, the strength of a women! Much love shirley harrison
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Cheers Shirley

Like Ells said, "Xena the Warrior Princess"...tough as nails! Rosina xena465
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 1 month ago

Dear Rosina

Once found out the culprit's game is over. An excellent write. Always, Cat
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thanks Cat

That's the thing Cat; they can take on many disguises. Rosina xena465
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scribbler

16 years 1 month ago

charlatan

though not a fan of free form, thought this was good
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Me neither

I usually write in rhyme but this one has a different story to tell and I felt it didn't need to rhyme to have meaning to me. Thank you scribbler Rosina xena465
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

We're not stupid

I just needed to write that down...Thanks a lot Licia. Rosina xena465
loved

loved

16 years 1 month ago

your experience

your experience, by itself is a manifest Of human minds… how you transform and also reform needs a brain of a person Only of your kind. you brave the world boldly I know and that’s why reading your poems my face does glow, glow and glow loved once
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Gee thanks Loved

Very nice comment and much appreciated. Rosina xena465
loved

loved

16 years 1 month ago

ur

ur urself so nice so love is ur price and u must remain so very nice have some rice and be sweet and nice thanks this is just for fun one for the roads pun loved one
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

ur so nice

Thank you Loved. I appreciate your nice compliments to me. Rosina xena465
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thank you Annie

I thought you'd like this one...much appreciated Rosina xena465
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Dear Raven

What a lovely compliment...thank you Raven. Rosina xena465
jetz

jetz

16 years 1 month ago

For someone to evoke this

For someone to evoke this piece from you Rosina, they have to be a low life. Unfortunately, around here, it's hard to tell the players without a score card. Good job expressing yourself. Sue
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Thanks Jetz

I speak for all who have been taken in by Charlatans. Thank you for lovely comment. Rosina xena465
xena465

xena465

16 years 1 month ago

Cheers

Thank you very much truthslayer. It's really just a poem about how easy it is to be fooled by people who pose as someone they're not. And then realising and deciding that you're not fooled and that you're on top of it. Rosina xena465
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lyz

16 years ago

Well done

All these beauties I have missed. This is another brilliant poem of yours and yep, met a man like that once, lol. Love Lyz. XX
xena465

xena465

16 years ago

Dear Lyz

When you catch up, you do it well. Thank you for reading my poems and giving me such wonderful comments...you boost my moral no end...thank you. Rosina xena465
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lyz

16 years ago

Hey dear girl

No need for me to do that, you really are talented. I am just pleased I have finally got some reading in. I have found your poetry this morning quite astounding, truthfully. All I have read are full of depth and I found no fault etc, then again, when do I check, lol. I just love to read and if it pleases me I say so. I think I look deeper into writes and associate them more with the person than the poet. That may be wrong but that is just how it is. I do find your poetry to be high on the rung, so to speak, and I can feel your feeling in them. So all said and done hun, just keep doing what you are doing as you are doing it brilliantly. XX