Best Figment Poems

I travelled to the world of figments
A place of two dimensional beauty
Air brushed perfection
I tried to look beyond manufactured proportions
Pasted on smiles
Glowing skin

I did not belong there
Not tall enough
Broad enough
I smiled my crooked smile
Reached out to touch a hand
Caress a perfect breast
Kiss those luscious lips
She...

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I color my words,

For they are pigments of my,

Imagination....

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Wandering around the earth saying you love me? What do you know of love..,
If I thought you knew anything of love I would've stayed..
yes, there beside you in that little house, in that little bed.  
Not just locked away inside that thick head.

(I can't...

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Cold, placid, chiseled marble striding a hollowed cone
My fingers, as bristling brush, swab finished surface
Lifeless mold with a bright, animated plaster glows
O'er seamless lines, into silted grooves felt tips roll
A mysterious script unscrolls, tingling fingers to prime
My tracing digits her supple, graceful texture unseals
Sketching, my...

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my flesh is filled and fraught with foul disease; 
offensive is my life to mine own eyes 
who sees me sail life's clear and cloudy seas 
where faith fills up or empties out our lies. 

now here I stand a broke and beaten man 
whose...

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 my body's broke and beaten now for certain; 
too many years of junk have dried my bones. 
I think I see the final call and curtain - 
the God who owns is callin' in His loans. 

it was my hope someday I would connect...

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Had occasion one day to realize,
Running to my own excess of riot.
Really I was Lucifer in guise,
The cause of my own life being up tight.

A figment of my imagination,
Discovered him by the side of life’s road,
My true self having taken vacation,
Left figment crying, heavy with...

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——— A FIGMENT OF CONSEQUENCE

the thermostat’s kept so low ~ my amputated phantom-pained toes freeze


(c) sally young eslinger 1/15/23...

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Holding back the tears and tryna be strong.
Pretending to everyone that nothing is wrong,
So I put on a show just like a clown
but under that fake smile lies a real frown.

Feels like I have just been buried alive.
Finding it hard to breathe I’m trying to...

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Your dreamy bold curious unstable eyes
Juicy lips mounted with sober plausible sexy ties
Though silent yet propulsive pensive piercing voice
Curly hair, bare shoulder possessing fervid demise
All is enough to drive my sincere soul over flies...

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You breathed life back into my soul, 
 your kind words and gestures help me heal.
I almost think you're a figment of my imagination, 
 someone as wonderful, and caring as you can't be real.

I long to hold your hand, and kiss your face, but
...

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In a goofy world there are goofy people.
In a perfect world there are perfect people. 
But in your world there is just you. 
Everyone else is just a figment of your imagination. 
Now stop daydreaming and get back to work....

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The slibber slabber man is coming
Close the doors and bolt all windows fast
The jibber jabber man is bringing
Bats and worms in his flibber flabber cask.
His beard is wet and cold
His teeth is yellow and bold

Did you clean your room, did you
Make the howdy dowdy bed
Did...

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I met the Mad Hatter today
Perfectly marvelous
In the walking dream
He spoke of the currents
and shadows...
Pure and loveless
The burgendy glow
of the candles
Whispered a shriek,
A millifluous requiem
Of the long journey inward
The hatter poured darkness
into my rosy teacup
There is a kind of a hush
A crazy daisy
Behind fragmented veils
Half-brained...

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Did I just imagine you or are you just a dream
maybe just a figment of my brains insanity
do I dare to question whether you are really real?
maybe I should tell someone how lost I really feel

do you know how lonely it is inside my brain?
there...

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