Best Illusionary Poems
Below are the all-time best Illusionary poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of illusionary poems written by PoetrySoup members
Soothing TomorrowsOh 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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Categories:
illusionary, emotions, love,
Form:
Free verse
JournalYes, 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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Categories:
illusionary, devotion, love, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Mirror MirrorYour 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
The Prince of PurpleBeneath 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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Categories:
illusionary, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form:
Free verse
Onoff the CuffI 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
Edger All PoeOur 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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Categories:
illusionary, character, dark, history, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
A Christmas CarolOh 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
Inner Beauties PromiseHow 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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Categories:
illusionary, change, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
Free verse
The Days of Wine and RosesFlickering 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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Categories:
illusionary, art, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
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
Black Diamond NightBlack 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
Thinking About AngelsThinking 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
The StagTHE 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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Categories:
illusionary, art, beauty, inspirational, international,
Form:
Free verse
Songs of PowerSongs 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
Where Bumbles BounceTo 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