Best Illusionists Poems

The barbed tightrope sways menacingly
The imperceptible border separating
A chaotic world from
Inevitable peaceful sleep

She runs without trepidation
Bloodied, stained and scarred bare feet
Immune to the flesh eating...

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A kiss,  A  Whip   They  spit,   I hit this is the life that I do not wish 
a...

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The hand that caresses the wave.
The mouth that hardly opens –
breathes in the fresh wind of the stone-pines.
To speak to the stars,
to write out signs...

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I wilt with guilt,
self blame,
too comfortable with living midway
within this United 5%
stealing 28% of Time's encrusted fossil investment
as if by collective right
as if without loss,
no...

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Looking  out the  window, glancing  at the  sunset
My eyes look  beyond the stars to and fro
  Thinking  of...

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Magic we see is nothing but illusion
Where illusionists fill our minds with confusion
Magicians actually trick your mind
God knows what fun in these tricks people find
It...

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Sometimes I tire along the path—
Colors not bright 
As they once were;
Shapes in my hands
Turning to water,
Dribbling to indifferent earth— 
Her reply to everything
The same...

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Desire doesn’t belong........

Desire dives into the ocean of the heart
Like high waves rushing to sweep the sand
Like grey clouds all roaring in unison
Gushing to douse...

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Sonnet is not an infidel depository,
how can one be infidel to singing!
how not to weep  the weeping,
sans sonnet, which is antidote to gall ...

Sonnet...

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Dark of Winter, contagious nightfall’s sigh, hide me, hide me from all. Be my guide oh Sweet Darkness pride. 
Oh Glorious Papa coming down to...

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In the mirrors
                   are farrowing
  ...

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What images does the word magic conger,
a prestidigitator or mystic spell?
Some believe belief makes sorcery stronger;
but wizards are tricksters with something to sell,
pretending to master...

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I am a door----you are a door.

A good door is neither
too wide or too narrow.

Sometimes you are a threshold.
Only illusionists praise the craft of locks...

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Past lucid doors and seven seas
Through outer thoughts and inner dreams
Far beyond our last few words
And past the waves a voice is heard

Inside a world...

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