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Premium Member Faustus
Faustus was a very curious man
Obsessed with burning desire  
To feel see and to understand
The secrets of God’s universe
He was not afraid to make...

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Categories: faustus, anxiety, dark, desire, passion,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Faustus Reflections
I stare in to the eyes of darkness
Hypnotized by fear
And it is the depth that gets me
Magnetic pull is in the air
I see a black...

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Categories: faustus, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus signed a pact
Not realising the fact
That great magical aspirations
Are only mental formations

To the devil he gave his soul
Who did not fulfill his role...

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Categories: faustus, educationgod, god,
Form: I do not know?
Seeking Faustus
I’ll sell it to you
if I become famous,
if I can sit idly about while 
masterpieces pass from head to page 
in effortless debauchery.

You have the...

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Categories: faustus, angst, introspection, on writing
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The In-Between
"The In-Between"

I ripped the pages of 
that tired old story 
from the heart, a body of work

buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back...

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Categories: faustus, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Be Quiet
Be
quiet
my Pumpkin,
it's not your turn.
"But Daddy, why not?"
Her look filled with desire.
Hair aflame and golden eyes
the roller coaster beckoning.
She shows no fear, she is only...

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Categories: faustus, daughter, pride,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member God Like, Not So Different
“God like, not so different” 

She wrote, 
“where do you go to my lovely?”

my response, 
“I sink into the screen 
like a scream queen goddess,
I...

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Categories: faustus, muse,
Form: Narrative
Hey, Handsome...
My heart is empty, Jeffrey.
I’m standing here transfixed 
within the threshold 
of a vacant bedroom.
The air is still
but the delicate scent 
of your passing soul...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: faustus, lossme, language, language, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cyber Shepherd To His Beloved-W
Come online with me, at leisure,   
And let’s surf on the Internet.
Like Faustus we shall share pleasure,
Of those websites, dot.com, dot.net.

We’ll log in...

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Categories: faustus, fantasy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Helena-W
Make men stretch their arms, to wake in her eyes
Finger on lip, ring not on middle, mouth lovely
With hair like lakes that glint beneath the...

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Categories: faustus, me,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Margarita
Margarita, fair girl with blue eyes
Come tonight to the hidden spot
When fool moon rises in the sky
To the edge of the watery lot
Where the mysterious...

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Categories: faustus, allusion, analogy, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Dad I Had Great Desires
Dad, I had Great Desires
........................................
Dad, I had great desires:
Traveling Nanjing and Sanmachi Suji.
Stonehenge , Historic Yorkshire and Lake District .
Morocco and Istanbul .
African wilderness in...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: faustus, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wizards of Fire and Ice
Once upon a time, many years ahead,
In a land close by, on an earth nearly dead,
Humans had evolved - using much more of their brains,
They...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: faustus, adventure, allegory, childrenfire, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shakespeare Returns
this place... Weymouth - a small tranquil village! 
How far is my Stratford from here? 
my Stratford-on-Avon! 
The Shangri-la of a dramatist's imagination!

Assuming, I had a very very...

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Categories: faustus, history, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mushrooms Acid and Coke
she hung once more upside down from her own cross

nails painted crimson and blood on the ripped loin cloth

which barely covered her conscience gripped by...

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Categories: faustus, addiction,
Form: Free verse

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