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Best Arcana Poems

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Premium Member Between the Pillars of Black and White
"Between the Pillars of Black and White"



You sit alone in your power
between the pillars of 
black and white
holding your book in hand

The words are your...

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Categories: arcana, love, magic, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Black Cat
"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants...

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Categories: arcana, cat, color, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Temperance Tarot
     "Temperance Tarot"



in the mystical ream of tarot card prediction
painted canvas figurines proclaim Future depiction
a magical illusion holding phenomenal accuracy
revealing journeys...

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Categories: arcana, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac...

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Categories: arcana, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unicorns Are Us
“Unicorns are Us” 

You can only imagine
the furore 
when magick
hit the score
the Party, not impressed,
was not for witches
too big for their
britches on brooms,
said all the...

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Categories: arcana, magic, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Husk
"Husk"




3 decades sucked out the marrow
Swallowed yesterdays
Spits out a Queen from the crumbling Tower

Ten of swords 
High Priestess
Tarot

Husk arisen
Papillon Lefevre will be killed and bitten
Princess...

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Categories: arcana, courage, health, hero, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spilt Milk
“Spilt Milk”



Warm milk 
before bedtime
spilt before sleep

The salty tear
in a body of work 
along the dark line kissed

steamed open
like an envelope
secrets laid bare

reveling in whispers
moist...

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Categories: arcana, dark, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Small Wars In Paradise
"Small Wars in Paradise"



A small war in paradise
where the walls
are dripping 
hearts pinned 
with golden words

A ghost behind 
the eyes of a Fate
shines a light
on...

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Categories: arcana, future, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”



the firing squad 
came dressed
in faux smiles

the intervention cake 
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior

to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity

she wore the...

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Categories: arcana, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
The Fool
I am a fool 
not very wise
roaming for full beauty 
yet bereft of reason.
A trait of doubt is within me
a spirit in search of action
a...

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Categories: arcana, mystery,
Form: Verse
Eternities Fool
Thrown from heavens tides, 
an embryonic entombment drowning in desire…
For I have seen the face of an angel, 
bending realities before my despondent eyes…

Where for...

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Categories: arcana, conflict, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Great Escape
Graveyard of thoughts awakening
Reminiscent in shadows of yesteryear
Elusive like these dreams tempting me
As if i were to follow them through their enigma
Towards the echoes of...

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Categories: arcana, dream,
Form: Acrostic
Black Lilly
Black Lilly:

The red sun sets as the crystal moon rises over the vast country side. Stars above glisten with perfection in bright arrays as the...

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Categories: arcana, adventure, faith, fantasy, fear,
Form: Ballad
Fond Farewell
Time cascades like falling leaves
Floating where the wild winds gust
A moment past, forever lost
Enveloped in a stream of years

To be, to cease, to drift away
Some...

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© Mark White  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arcana, absence, bereavement, death, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
The Perfect World of Word's Mundus Verborum Perfectus
In regnis verborum, ubi somnia avolant,
Versum componam virtute purissima.
Calamo in manu, cor meum flagrat,
Narrabo fabulam, notissimam unquam.

Super tabula caelesti gratiae,
Colores amplexus amoris exprimam.
A primo mane...

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Categories: arcana, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs