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Best Illusionist Poems

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The Illusionist
A Magician never divulges his secrets 
So how he managed to break my heart while already broken
I’ll never know
It was not viable, 
Then again, any...

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Categories: illusionist, imagination, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Illusionist
As I was walkin’ down the street
I thought I saw him ahead,
I followed on trembling feet
wherever he led.

We threaded through the crowd
And entered a dark...

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Categories: illusionist, break up, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Illusionist
The  Illusionist

      The illusionist is a clever man,
      With an assistant aiming to distract.
...

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Categories: illusionist, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
I Sing To Eternity
To an unmet friend:


You see the mortal world
and for you man is machine,
little more than a device
for the vagaries of evolution.
Faith is illusion, hope lacks
weight--...

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Categories: illusionist, analogy, beauty, celebration, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Curious Spirit
She entertains fantasies
of unicorns and dragons.
And a curious spirit,
she oft thinks outside the box.

She is an illusionist;
famed for her vanishing act.
And breaking with tradition,
she cuts...

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Categories: illusionist, beauty, character, emotions, feelings,
Form: Blank verse



That Sense of Being
What is this sense of being?

That I am, I have been, I will be-- is it a blessing 
to ever feel time's razor edge, gathering...

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Categories: illusionist, allusion, angst, death, hope,
Form: Free verse
Harry Houdini
It all started from the age of nine, I fell in love with locks and cuffs,
in and out I go, I saw what I have...

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Categories: illusionist, magic,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Freddy's Back
The dream illusionist, nightmares grand master,
For fantasy and horror.
Terror's unholiest jack of all murderers, a beast unleashed
From the nether worlds darkest depths,
Beyond the gates of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusionist, fear, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Families Pray
We Walk Together  Hand and Hand

Tightly Holding each other's Heart
 
For what We Loved

Was a crafty Illusionist 
Orchestrating arrogant notes 

The Lords Lampposts are...

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Categories: illusionist, angel, blessing, children, prison,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Mysterious Crystal Ball
The Mysterious Crystal Ball

Is this glass sphere a Gothic masterpiece of time
or a mere ball of glass with no significance at all
The Crystal Ball to...

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Categories: illusionist, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A David For David
He drifts among fireflies and splits the rain
A haze walking through Great Wall’s domain,
Twists of Copperfield’s runes whirls a relay
Under kliegs of stars, mind’s eye...

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Categories: illusionist, faith,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Maximus Parthas the Word Wizard
Man you a wizard warlocking written to spellbinding spoken word.
Jargoning prolific prophetic like the bible real truth.
I'm xeroxing you so x-ray this diagonally
Awe inspired me...

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Categories: illusionist, inspirationalme, spoken word,
Form: Acrostic
Touch the Clouds
Life changes, shifts, moves
A young boy looks at the clouds, 
Seeing possibilities and fantasies
Cotton Candy at the fair
Castles, horses, and knights
Feathers and fingers moving endless
Thinking...

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Categories: illusionist, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 2 Worlds of Politics
There is basically only two worlds of politics.
One is the glittering domain of the illusionist.
The other is a place held very secretly
where the true darkness...

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Categories: illusionist, political,
Form: Rhyme
Half Empty
Half Empty, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez

To describe oneself, what question must be asked?
One driven by reality?
Philosophy?
To speak of the physical beauty that resembles humble being
“Beauty...

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Categories: illusionist, introspection, beauty, self, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things