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Best Illusionary Poems

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Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Journal
Yes, that is the role of the Teacher, as Shams was to
me – showing one ‘who they are’, so they can stop
bleating, crying at night,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, devotion, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Your reflection is a liar
It makes no confessions 
The image reaches within
Cold fingers claw at your mind
A mirrored smile
Taunts you
Haunts you
No words spoken
Yet you hear...

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Categories: illusionary, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Prince of Purple
Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: illusionary, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Edger All Poe
Our dark founding father, of American literature,
A sinister beacon of darkness, lighting the way
Into the darkened abyss of mankind’s soul.
Within the galleria of madness, he...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, character, dark, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Christmas Carol
Oh the Ghosts, Oh the Ghosts!!!
The Ghosts of Christmas shall haunt the wicked
They shall haunt the bitter and sorrowful decrepit creatures
Your hunched back and wallet...

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Categories: illusionary, childhood, christmas, funny, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Inner Beauties Promise
How many emotional tears have we so cried, us the unperfected,
The Barbie generational rejected, or Ken doll unrealistic Idol worship.
Cursed by society’s vision of ultimate...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, change, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Days of Wine and Roses
Flickering in the night, a melting’s texture of regrets afterglow,
Candlelight’s waxed drippings staining the white laced table cloth,
Yet in the black and white photo album...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, art, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fat Lady Has Sung
O harlot of colored scarlet hath divided the spoils
The wealthy, well oiled, prophesy uncertainty 
Thee measures of  barley spoil not the oil or wine
heavenly...

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Categories: illusionary, angst, faith,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night

Life is a cruel wench, a beckoning tramp, she is.
 Sprawling wide open to draw us into her erotic nectar.
 She whispers lurid...

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Categories: illusionary, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thinking About Angels
Thinking About Angels

Here I am thinking 
about angels, guardians
in the sky.

Funny thing: grief.
Well maybe ‘funny’
is the wrong word.

 ‘Volcanic’
‘Annihilating’
‘Illusionary’

‘Pulverizing’
‘Instantaneous’
‘Gasping’

‘Forever’ is
the kicker.

Here I am thinking 
about...

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Categories: illusionary, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stag
THE STAG

It's a creature of vapors mist, existing within a thin veil
Of nothingness, descending from the unknown pastures
Called Nirvana.
A mystical spirit lingering in the sacred...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionary, art, beauty, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Songs of Power
Songs Of Power 

(Lost As Blackness Invades)

Where the agony invades life seems in blurs,
And the long nights eat the fruited trees,
And later, night dreams stalk...

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Categories: illusionary, allegory, death, humanity, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Bumbles Bounce
To the wild overgrown garden
of my age crammed mind
I keep returning, thirsting for
the nectar of neglected nights,
when moonlight shone in vain,
searching for scattered words
among the...

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Categories: illusionary, age, memory, old,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs