Best Optical Poems

Duped by overwhelming desire

perception ends in disillusion.


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Crystal Clear Contest 
Hosted by Joseph May
Placed 3rd
© 1st May 2019...

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Optical illusions

                  Seeing is believing at least that's what they say
             Sometimes though, what our eyes...

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20 nods and 20 winks,
it’s all smoke-and-mirrors
me lazy bones think

Swampy eye creatures
say dey got a thousand-dollar discount 
sofa solution
And dey gon put me 
on a ten-dollar monthly lay-away plan

This 20/20 optical illusion
be straight up sewer smell talking
Old-timey lip confusion,
king crab style slug moon-walking

Dem gator jaw...

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an early summer storm
white flurries over the lawn-
ah,the philedelphus blossoms...

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Quintessentially phantasmagoric,
  her cobalt skies' chimerical fancy
     whores itself out for poetry, 
sumptuously cached 'tween 
    a revelation's optical illusion
enchanting white knights 
     and seducing dragons alike,
her flimflam elusively lofty
 & difficult to...

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I'm a piece of art
That can be hung up
on the wall
But please don't
move me
For I shall fall
Become abstract
pieces of a
different cause
Waiting..
Begging..
To be put back
together like a
puzzle with endless
possibilities 
To a startles finish
I am to be one day
put in a museum
With all of life's
other amusing
entities 
Being...

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I wish I could write a poem that rhymes
I've tried to do it a million times, or more
The words never seem for me to come
At least not as easy as it does for some, people

I just don't know what I should do
To get my words...

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phil owed....so, why?

...a...
full loss of why

...be as......
phil awes sophie
...though...

phil lost sophie
...but, the...
full awes...of 'why'
...show a...

full awed sophie
...with a...
full a soap...'hi'
...meaning...
phil awed soapy's...'hi'

...and showed a...
full awe...soap eh?!
...then smiled a...
full'a soap...'hi'
...and both were...
full'a soft tickles


stans sand...

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Global Warming Intrusion
Just an Optical Illusion?
Or a hysterical Delusion?
What goes up must come down
The media drags us all around
Climate Change is of the Sun
It is basically the only One
The Water Cycle takes the Care
of the Gases in the Air
Volcanoes spew out Gasey Goo
Nothing new ,...

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Sunrays dance on waves
                                       playful dolphins leap...

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My slumbered eyes in endless night hours
make shady groves of translucent memories. 
Outlining  contour of crescent moon, 
dark figures meander my muffled thoughts. 

The starry sky suddenly changes
from turquoise blue  to champagne color .
Half in light, half in shadow, in a  mystic...

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Trust me—
When I say to—

Say-may I trust you-to?
Trust-me, I may to-you.

When me-say—
Spihshhhhhh…
Too you—

Trust me—got-to you-do.
Why must we trust got-to?

We must trust you know who?
Know when we must say-you—

You say I got-to shoo—
May you allow me to?

Me must-say—
Spihshhhhhh—to-you—

Trust must know-way to shoo…
Why got-to shoo say-you?

Trust me—got-to...

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If you look closer, you can see
The creatures living inside of the
Trees and plants and houses too,
Blooming flowers, leaves of rue,
The wrinkles and dents of a worn-out shoe
Can become a face to forever haunt
Or maybe something you truly want.
No matter how hard you try to...

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asking  for advice,
   in the land of the mirros
     optical illusion ...!...

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Pardon me Hon, my apophenia is acting up. See,
   I have this acute case of advanced pareidolia
Today my two fried eggs formed Munch's 'The Scream' in the frying pan
   it made my toes curl, but it seems to have solved my...

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