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Best Fatuus Poems

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Premium Member Ignis Fatuus
Okay, okay, I confess. We stole the only hyperdrive ship that wasn't destroyed in the war. But what choice did we have? Our world is...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fatuus, destiny, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Ignis Fatuus -
The flashes of light shine trembling - then gone
                ...

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Categories: fatuus, mystery, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Ignis Fatuus
Bright rays now beam with hope’s sweet smile
       midst lurking storm raring to reign
     ...

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Categories: fatuus, character, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Triolet
Ignis Fatuus
Indigence and torch light might be beguiling to a visitor
When he aches for his anguish to deter
Chase tension and scrutiny avert
Yet enduringly rubbing shoulders with...

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Categories: fatuus, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Wisps of Ignis Fatuus
her elfish beauty                      ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fatuus, beauty, crush, desire, fairy,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Ignis Fatuus
Ignis Fatuus

     Wafting on dreams of illusion?
     hypnotized by Ignis Fatuus!
     Mystic mirage...

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Categories: fatuus, dream, imagination, muse,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Categories: fatuus, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged...

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Categories: fatuus, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Original Mask of Alabaster
A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.

Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass, 
I see a flushing fluorescent...

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Categories: fatuus, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet
Oracles of the Abyss
Oracles of the Abyss


...I shed a single tear, and as it fell to the ground, like a nuclear bomb...an ocean was born...


Serving somniferous solitudes from...

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Categories: fatuus, love, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
September Twenty-Eighth Two Thousand Thirteen
Climbing from her escapism's, evanescent pool; love's predicate...
Figure skating of dreams, infinite; timeless, Hollywood's paper doll ?
Fete fete's parquet circles; abstract evolutions ex de facto;...

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Categories: fatuus, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
Illusion
In the dark cold sea of life,
I was on the small boat rowing alone
coming from nowhere and going to nowhere,
The skies above me were cloudy,
And...

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Categories: fatuus, life, love, words, me,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany
Ignus fatuus, things taboo.
Premonitions coming true.
Destiny calls, her bill is due.
Deja vu!!
Phantom places I've never been.
Left my body on the bed.
Words once spoken.
Yet, not said.
Voices...

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Categories: fatuus, confusion, destiny, dream, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Illusion
invention of my rich
imagination; false
impression I embraced;
imitation of truth
I believed completely;
impactful delusion  
impressed upon my mind;
ignis fatuus* that
inevitably burst
into shards of pain and
irretrievable trust

a...

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Categories: fatuus, image, imagination, truth,
Form: Verse
Leela
I've heard there is a one eyed Goddess.
More elusive than the Ignas Fatuus.
A violet cloud of Will o'the Wisp,
with one great eye and two red...

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Categories: fatuus, passion, people, time,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs