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Best Illusory Poems

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Premium Member Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusory, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse



Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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Categories: illusory, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bloodstone Truth
If truth had a color,
when twilight bleeds 
burgundy rivers,
you’ll find these garnet 
eyes pleading
to be heard through 
poetic sunsets. 
For I’ve been swirling 
and twirling
through...

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Categories: illusory, emotions, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Embarked Upon a Great Escape
I've deleted this acrostic from the competition for personal reasons. 
        SORRY, J. D.


G lorious was the morning...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusory, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Raspberry Ruins
In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the...

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Categories: illusory, deep, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ruminations On Life
(The news of the death of dear and near ones reaching us on a daily basis has left me thinking of the transitoriness of life...

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Categories: illusory, anxiety, death, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Brighton Streets
Do I dare look at you when I walk these streets?
Chase your shadow as it crawls under my feet?
For I have walked my way through...

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Categories: illusory, adventure, introspection, life, people
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chimera
This magical fairy who paints my dreams
Has blushed my fantasy in subtle hints
That kissed dreamy night on the thrills of fall--
An amber delight on the...

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Categories: illusory, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Bird In Tranquility
the yellow bird is back to the tranquil meadow 
where my soul finds a true repose, 
she didn't leave me....
I speak to her every day,...

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Categories: illusory, bird, nature,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Day My Lover Left
A spiritual sickness enveloped my stagnant heart.
I searched for her in darkened obscure visions,
A futile illusory chase that led to a desert of love.
Had I...

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Categories: illusory, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Retort To the Devil...
They call you the fallen one,with short tuffted curls
the one responsible for the chaos in the world
you may be the cause,as we live the effect
but...

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Categories: illusory, satirepride,
Form: Free verse
Abominable Alliance
Thru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen...

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Categories: illusory, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
The Moment of Finality.
A beauty of the finest splendor…captivating
Seizing the rooms attention on the inhale
Now a shrinking shell of her former self
Caught in a chemical coma to ease...

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Categories: illusory, angst, family, forgiveness, loss,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and...

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Categories: illusory, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Samsara In the 5th
"Samsara in the 5th"



The phenomenal world
is illusory, it calls for 
nothing of substance
romance is laid out
legs and hearts spread
open like a catalogue 
touched through the...

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Categories: illusory, desire, dream, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Romanticism

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