Best Illusive Poems

I fell~ asleep
It was easy to fall*
I slipped~ into a dream
When I couldn't get a grip*
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I hate WHAT you did to me..
Inside are things you...

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"Illusive Heart" 

I feel lonely, and yet you are here.
You hold me close; but, your heart isn't sincere.

You utter bittersweet promises that all will come true.
My heart doesn't believe anything; that is said, from you.

Your just fooling yourself if you think I wouldn't know.
All the...

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you fade into
the distance
out of reach
an illusion
dissipating
with the breeze
into the night
a specter
an hallucination
vanishing
leaving me forever



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on December 16, 2018 for contest LATE DECEMBER 2018 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on October 18, 2018...

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Some people write of
things they know...
feeling more daring,
I prefer to explore:
start with a glimpse,
or chase a shadow,
a sliver of light
from a strange door
left ajar, on a path
I obscurely saw – 

Some people write
while I more dream,
imprinting pages
with a glint and a
gleam – in pursuit
of some...

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Endless tunnels lead me, to dim corners of strange dimensions
Floating with waves to infinity, loops curling me to shores
I lose the stories seen, in witty rituals of my mind.

May 23, 2020

Let the Pens Flow - Sijo Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas
~Winner: First Place

BRIAN'S select D,any form,any...

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Wafting on winds many miles from home.
Hovering together splashes of black and white.
A Zebra Longwing colony home from the day’s roam,
Oh, how happy I was to see that old familiar sight.

Monarchs and Viceroys dash back and forth.
But Zebra Longwings roost after each days dance.
How did...

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I’ve never seen a unicorn,
I do not know their source.
I know PD has seen them
Because she says she loves them.
I think she fears someone would come
To take her pets by force,
So she protects her unicorns
By telling no one of them.

When Noah built his sturdy ark
On...

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Most Illusive

Can thin spaces be created by a Priest
Closer to God and distance not increased
And about some things I must be blunt
Still trying to decide what I need and want.

What if for while longer I have to wait
For standup comedian to be a candidate
Which I...

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Where are you today
My Illusive Butterfly

Fluttering around 
Among beautiful flowers
Amid fluffy billowy clouds

Or perched on a 
Dainty stem of primrose
Or a nearby limb
Of a mighty Oak

Looking out at the world 
Through the multi eyes of
My Illusive Butterfly...

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Illusive Shutterbug

She works behind a camera
and sees what others can't see.
She turns ordinary into mystical
and fiction into reality.

She doesn't just see with her eyes, 
she sees with her heart and soul.
She makes magic with light and moon beams,
she makes things once broken, whole.

She's a mythological...

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First I went all thru Canada
Searching thru icy lakes and ponds  
Verdant green woods and valleys
Looking for the illusive moose.

Then on to Alaska to try again
Searching brush and waterways
I saw an abundance of life
But not a moose found on my stay.

Once I actually heard...

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brotherhood of man living in harmony ~ why can't it be?



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on June 30, 2022 for contest THE ART OF PEACE sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS...

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I've walked up and down these city streets
Left my prints along the beach
Searching for that which I need
But seldom is it within reach

Every nook and cranny in my home
Climbed high the mountain top alone
Never sure of where it's gone
The illusive poem

Day and night I will...

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And do I dream of love?
Yes, often and always;
the possibility of finding love haunts me,
but I realize that in this world of illusion
nothing is as it would first appear.
In our world to have is to have not
even that which we have;
and to gain is to...

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Red lips, curvaceous hips
a sway in her walk tips 
the scales and leaves me
wondering how I ended up
here.

A chance meeting, a persuasive
greeting, entices me to
give in, to live in the moment
and enjoy the ride presented
by this illusive female form, 
challenging the norm of my everyday
existence.

I...

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