Best Conjurer Poems

All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright

The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art mathematical' to make strange works
 Genius of movement artificial
Mechanical scarab perceived in flight
Miracles  and marvels  to rival ...

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CONJURER.

Conjuring up all the memories
Of past and future into present
Washing eyes with saline waters
To see clarity among the mists
Vista of tragedy in land stranded
Where downy fears ever abounded.

Give mind rest, some space
To breathe out suffocations
Celebrating birth of a heart
In misty silvery undertones
A courage of projections...

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Conjurer
appeared suddenly
carrying human skull
played sweet hellish hymns
transfigured...

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CONJURER.

Conjuring up all the memories
Of past and future into present
Washing eyes with saline waters
To see clarity among the mists
Vista of tragedy in land stranded
Where downy fears ever abounded.

Give mind a rest, some space
To breathe out suffocations
Celebrating birth of a heart
In misty silvery undertones
A courage in...

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CONJURER



In imagined corners of her darkened room
My child sensed  insensible terror
And her fear conjured danger and gloom
Since she knew not of her error :

For fear is the only darkness  -
So we set about befriending the black
And understanding the starkness
Of mere  light’s ...

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the conjurer

his fingers dive like seagulls 
swooping in mid air 
a voice half gravel 
half creme caramel
soothes and goads
like granny with a rough cloth
he washes faces in life

strain the ears incredulity
with incantations 
rough and unpoetic voices 
speak through floating horns
companied by sea swells
pungent curses rain...

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