Best Phantasmagoria Poems

Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee -
insanity bleeding through ruined rind.

I’m humbled now and at your merciless
  whims and words afflicting by your whipping
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As amber eve paints ochre skies
Her lips I kissed, turn ruby rose
And dreams of heart my passion vies
As amber eve paints ochre skies
When romance gleams in lovers’ eyes
It’s me she picks the moon well knows
As amber eve paints ochre skies
Her lips I kissed, turn ruby...

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Dark shadows cast by trees at night-
   as wind gives life to limbs that scare,
so oft can stir such inner fright.
   Dark shadows cast by trees at night   
morph images- let thoughts incite
   unwanted feelings of despair;
dark...

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In dreamscape teeming with mirage 
this soul an unwilling captive,
afloat with black moon's entourage 
In dreamscape teeming with mirage
through a strangely bizarre collage--
wake me O real hours active
In dreamscape teeming with mirage...
this soul an unwilling captive!


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PHANTASMAGORIA

If you don't like where you are..take a trip in your mind
Look in your brain's dark corners and see what you find
There are places a groaning board tempts with an epicurean delight
But the populace heads for the worst comestibles in sight
When choosing Burma or Myanmar...

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Projected on to a large screen
The gruesome shape of evil’s face
A haunting form from Halloween.
Projected on to a large screen
A lantern cheats – don’t intervene
To stop the nightly ghoul’s forays
Projected on to a large screen
The gruesome shape of evil’s face.


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I searched in vain for inspiration.
I even climbed the sacred Parnassus
Where all the muses reside.
I danced with them
Engaged in endless discourse.
All in vain.

Then I resigned to my fate.
Oh Pythagoras? How I refused
Ever to believe in your metempsychosis?
Alas that meritocracy should be reborn
Reborn to write again,
Reborn...

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Cynthia moves for me in veiled slopes,
silver drops dance on her tender petals.
Memories bloom from tesseract in ropes,
Cynthia moves for me in veiled slopes.
Oh Luna! I long to kiss starry hopes
on scarlet waves before Aurora settles.
Cynthia moves for me in veiled slopes,
silver drops dance on...

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I

     You stare silently squinting
 through  your stained glass panes

Pulling aside sapphire drapes
 of somber samite and organdy
  
Lo, gazing mesmerized
a quixotic moon--
blithely blows kisses,
wryly winks
and coyly smiles--


 Yea, a light seesaw of a day
of ecstasy and spritely delight--
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As my doleful gaze upon thy form hath fallen,
Garbed in the fashion of sadness or mourning,
Nightly tresses thy sombre tone adorning,
Decadent and beauteous, as a Seraph fallen.

A woebegone faerie with wings lost and broken,
Enshrouded in blackness, a sepulchral lady,
With thy pallid skin and thy heart...

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My words of love are just flowing out
An unending stream of passion
You've reentered my life of ups and downs
My joy is no longer rationed

A most fortunate soul to say the least
So many have felt this euphoria
Almost too much for my poor heart to take
It's literally...

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Translucent droplets descending aimlessly

Thudding to the earth, exploding into fluidity 

Transcending in sync with any  exterior element


Condensing intensity with each thunderous blow

Caressing the atmosphere with friction intensifying heat 

All the while, lubricating the possibilities of limitless evolution



Plush carpet of primitive sod
Seducing the blades of...

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“50 Words for Poe: Phantasmagoria”




“Darling, there’s someone here 
who would like to meet you...”

This was how it all began -

‘twas the night of the Ghost Ball
the room was pumping
and the Lothario put on a good show
standing tall, all 6’4, you know, alpha man
he grabbed her...

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Clear garish winds’ ascent grew plumbs renowned
Enunciating deftly to my heart:
If yon soot night inebriates the crowned,
No Lawyer can persuade a fire part.
Mere pigeons love blood in God’s tapestry,
Demure lungs and wrong idea atriums
Absolvent till Noon, their brewed majesty
Thwarts Edelweiss e’en to Chrysanthemums.
Dim cores all...

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Dark black is the pigment of the night
Sans the moon and stars, a gloomy sight
When what is there cannot be gleamed
Dense clouds blocking light streams

Detached stares probing the unseen
Vaguely tracing for colors in the dim
Long stares rendered the sky askew
Empty eyes saw spectrum of hues

Phantasmagoria,...

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