#persuasion poems on Hello Poetry

Asher Oct 15

Beneath kind words lies,
Silent strings pull hearts like thread,
Shadows weave their will.

Another haiku; I enjoy creating these poems. They're easier than sonnets.

#manipulation #deception #control #power #influence #persuasion #strategy #manipulative #illusion #tactics

Unpolished Ink Dec 2022

True persuasion
I think that you will find
is the gentle invasion
and the subsequent erasion
of a thought in someone's mind

#persuasion

David Plantinga Dec 2021

Wit and Wisdom

The Wit is nimble, and can skip
The longest distances with ease.
It flits on an extended trip,
One day, and back from overseas.
The Wisdom hasn’t cleared the dock,
A wide, and long, and sluggish ship,
Her cargo a tremendous stock,
And filled as if by faucet drip.
But such a huge displacement packs,
What takes a flimsy, skimming skiff
More than a hundred there’s and back’s,
A bounty to save Tenerife.

#wit #rhetoric #wisdom #truth #persuasion #sophistry

My Dear Poet Jun 2021

Gentle Persuasion

you should not push an opinion
nor force it into a small mind
it may explode at the ears
and lose the hearing the next time
when opportunity may arise
where those words may be recieved
into small parts, in smaller bits
and pushed in with ease

#persuasion #arguments #smallminds

Mose Nov 2020

Truth Prevails

We live in days where truth prevails second.
You no longer have to be right.
Just need to be the most convincing.

#truth #deception #justice #right #wrong #persuasion #convolute

Ken Pepiton Oct 2020

As it happens

Several times today, I stepped into stories
being presented as appeals for
belief because the teller says

this is what one of us knows, you must believe,
then know…

eh? I lift both brows, wrinkle my face,
quizzically,

and I recall knowing that in the universal truth,
there are bubbles of truths about stories,
told with idle words that fail to spark
the swallow reflex, too sweet…

ah, the family time at a theme park,
what is the theme

Apollo here, Isis there, Jesus, look, it is a ghost,
the Ghost of America as we wish it were,
we wish it were
we wish it
we wisht
weshit…

This is it. 2020. The real future.

All day every day, live, no jive... just me and those lizards at the casino.
\\

#persuasion #propaganda #policy

Lyn-Purcell Jul 2020

Peitho

Lips glossed by coyness
Love and lust on her tongue's tip
Tempt flesh to flower

New day, new haiku! (Repost as HP was acting up for some reason)
This one is for Peitho, Goddess/Spirit of Persuasion and Seduction.
It's no accident that she is also handmaiden/servant to the one and only, Aphrodite.
I wanted to play around with these facts in mind.
Tbh, I'm still so and so about this haiku. As I said I try to be very careful with the words I choose for each Woman of Myth.
Anyway, thank you all for 373 followers! I'm humbled and grateful for the support 🙏🌹💜
Here's the link for the growing collection:
https://hellopoetry.com/collection/132853/the-women-of-myth/
Be back tomorrow with another one!
Much love,
Lyn 💜

#dailyhaiku #mythology #greek #goddess #woman #seductive #charming #persuasion

BEK Oct 2019

Persuasion

Rid me of this burdensome curse
A power envied by many
Yet I have no desire for such

Let your eyes twinkle
Illuminating all that is beautiful and kind

With no influence from
The fright inducing hypnosis
Inside these piercing black eyes

#persuasion #hypnosis #inyoureyes #love #pure #kindness #envy #cursed #fake #twinkle

Ruheen Oct 2019

Persuasion

An ache
in your chest
Like losing a
limb
When
they find
What they find
Your hands
fall to your side
Your legs give out
under you
You close your
eyes
Trying to erase
all you've seen
Don't want 'em
to know what
you've seen
In a moment of weakness,
you let 'em check
under your hood
In a moment of weakness,
you plead with
your eyes
For mercy
You said too much
Now you better
hurry
Think before
you do
And if you
do it
Don't really
do it
Fix your
slip up
Don't let it
slip up
Stoic, blank
Keep it straight
Say all the
right things
Hope and pray
They can't see
right through
Right through you
And what you
know you do
The other way
Dissuade
But
Keep it simple
No complications
It's simple
Easy
Just a little persuasion.

Something happened to HP or maybe my laptop, but I couldn't post anything. Nothing would save and so I lost some of my work.

Anyway, when you want someone to believe anything but the truth.
Not really lying, just a little persuasion.

#persuasion

Sam Faisal Aug 2019

What's Your Poison?

Glass after glass,
Full,
Empty,
Refill.

It's ****,
When you undress
My sanity.

#life #persuasion #escape #**** #drunk