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Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Growing out of childish pranks,
With the storm and stress of turbulent teens,
I locked within my mind’s cupboard,
A portrait vaguely sketched, but never finished.
Rough it was,...

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Categories: phantasmal, appreciation, best friend, growing
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am the Wordsmith, Guide and Editor
"Dark-heaving . . . boundless, endless,  and sublime . . ."
Lord Byron 1788-1824
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I am the wordsmith, guide and editor of this narrative,
this epic chronicle...

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Categories: phantasmal, dark, death, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Crumpled Thoughts
Crumpled Thoughts 

They wait – in hues of vibrating silence -
Like leftover orts of rumpled paper wimples 
On creased clandestine journal pages –
Bent scraps of...

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Categories: phantasmal, art, birth, muse, words,
Form: Free verse
Acciaccatura
Acciaccatura

And filled with stars and the land
A pale gentle hand turned the hourglass 
Of my soul

Stalking the alabaster moon 
I rejoined once more
Those who follow...

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Categories: phantasmal, love, mystery, naturemoon, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Who Dream
The sun is our light
of dawning; and the moon, 
our catalyst for dream--
while heaven’s serifs seeming
strumming each and every beam
know that those who watch over...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phantasmal, angel, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



A Killer Addiction
The hooks went deeper,
A phantasmal itch.
Guiding him steeper,
More soul scars needing stitched.

Needle a quiver,
Injecting a mark.
Gambit so clever,
The results were stark.

Collapsing in a pile,
Upon a...

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Categories: phantasmal, dark, lost,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Eidolon of Endymion
Inside a grotto scooped out by a wealthy earl for his seated pleasure,
There sat a bard amidst the edelweiss strung 'round the hole of leisure....

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Categories: phantasmal, age, angst, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Love Within the Light
Love Within The Light


Heavens of light, heavens so bright...send me your superstar tonight
Heavens of fire, of heavens desire...send your angels that I may acquire
Heavens of...

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Categories: phantasmal, light, love,
Form: Free verse
"still"
Recalling time when I,
Used to believe LOVE was 
A phantasmal power.
Conquerable of every
Possible obstacle,
That would always sustain
Unquestionably.
										
Experiencing more 
Than my fair share of 
Disappointments and...

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Categories: phantasmal, inspirational, life, love
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Doughnut Man Seeks Insubstantial Woman of Substance
"Doughnut Man Seeks Insubstantial Woman of Substance"



Doughnut Man 
seeks ghost whole 
to fit his missing peace

Chimeric Dream Girl
seeks holesome man
who has her back


(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





“Perfect”...

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Categories: phantasmal, dark, fantasy, romance,
Form: Romanticism
My Dear, My Love, My Lie
Alas, in the entirety of my composition I see, I feel, now, a part missing whose shape is strange, a form which nothing, without and...

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Categories: phantasmal, dark, feelings, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Frozen Starfire
Frozen star-fire, with beauty distant, and glimmer chill, wherefore is thy light? 
Consumed by darkness, bitter-bleak and howling damned, bleeding in the night.
What raptures swept...

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Categories: phantasmal, courage, emotions, encouraging, longing,
Form: Free verse
Sigh Infinity
Sigh (Infinity symbol)

Your damage leaves a scent like the way gun powder smells
I’m the only store where your hurtful ammunition sells
I'm the ground that carries...

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Categories: phantasmal, water, words,
Form: Free verse
The Magic Spell
A night fairy fantasy with a magic blue umbrella 
levitating into a phantasmal world of silver dragon flies  
She is a Fairy Damsel with...

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Categories: phantasmal, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Glass Basilisk
Denying the change,
Your lipstick clutched tightly,
But beware my dear those empty promises may leave you broken and deranged,
An erratic arousal from images of the high...

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Categories: phantasmal, beautiful, society,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things