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Best Illicit Poems

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Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-
~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Categories: illicit, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member An Insignificant Life - Collaboration With the Seeker
That godless sound
His head explodes at 6:01am
Same as every day
He falls out of bed
Steps on the cat
Slides into his slippers
Shuffles to the kitchen
Puts the coffee...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illicit, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dangerous Dalliance
Perilous is the journey, sordid is the quest, flashing flirtatious desire,
Treacherous is gaudy aspiration, playing with torrid flames of fire;
No matter how thrilling, how visceral...

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Categories: illicit, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only the Moon Understands
No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illicit, angst, moon, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Ravishing River
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Categories: illicit, beauty, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stargazer
Under 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity

A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric

In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...

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Categories: illicit, confusion, feelings, life, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
But Seriously-The Unprecedented President
BUT SERIOUSLY
“The Unprecedented President”

Mirror mirror on the wall
Who’s the greatest President of them all?
“I am the voice beyond-beyond...
A truthful answer I must respond.”
Yes, it is...

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Categories: illicit, corruption, identity, image, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That's Poetry
When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.

As dawn's hues glisten...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illicit, poetry, poets,
Form: Ghazal
Love, Peace, and Harmony
Discrepancy is an economic thing.  Have you ever known this to be anything else?
Money is the great separator of togetherness.  Man rob, steal,...

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Categories: illicit, life, political, slam, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eskimo Nell and the Door Repair Man
For Andrea’s contest 
Show me the Funny (part two)

Eskimo Nell & the Door Repair Man

Now Eskimo Nell 
Has a story to tell
A tale, about my...

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Categories: illicit, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Will Go the Distance
To find that place where wanton needs abide
where you enclose the secrets of your mind
Unchartered realms where fantasies reside
I'll travel deep these treasured truths to...

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Categories: illicit, adventure, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Bright Mistress
Soft hair blows across her face.
A sheen on excited skin emanates.
Bottomless eyes reflect attraction.

Immeasureable beauty pulls his attentions.
No equal can be found in any race.
Rowdy...

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© Wayne Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illicit, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Attitude
With the onset of years
erstwhile crazy ideas
abandoned with caution and dread
now crowd my mind
no peace I will find
till my conscience lies neatly in shreds

Conscience, out...

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Categories: illicit, light,
Form: Rhyme
Free Verse On Love
Breathe my love, for I shall inhale
your ambrosial ambient air of amour…
and exhale your odoriferous obedient beauty;
For I’m lost in the winds of love,
as my...

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Categories: illicit, fantasy, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wander-Lust
Eroticism -
             a supple spine in a wanting curve
    ...

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Categories: illicit, beach, betrayal, desire, lust,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs