Best Phantasmal Poems
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, though......
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Categories:
phantasmal, appreciation, best friend, growing
Form:
Free verse
Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated a......
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Categories:
phantasmal, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
I Am the Wordsmith, Guide and Editor
...
"Dark-heaving . . . boundless, endless, and sublime . . ."
Lord Byron 1788-1824
_____________________
I am the wordsmith, guide and editor of this narrative,
this epic chronicle and ......
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Categories:
phantasmal, dark, death, dream, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
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 wrinkled inspiration
Smudged mo......
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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 the dream
Cutting t......
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Categories:
phantasmal, love, mystery, naturemoon, rose,
Form:
Free verse
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 us
are also those who dream…......
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Categories:
phantasmal, angel, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Les Cirque des Morts, Collaboration with Sara Jama
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated and we......
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Categories:
phantasmal, analogy, dark, death, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
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,
U......
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Categories:
phantasmal, dark, lost,
Form:
Narrative
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.
Fallen droplets of acidic water pitter-pattered in......
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Categories:
phantasmal, age, angst, fantasy, inspiration,
Form:
Couplet
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 h......
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Categories:
phantasmal, dark, fantasy, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
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 gold, brea......
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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 f......
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Categories:
phantasmal, inspirational, life, love
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
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 within, might fill;
It is you, My Dear, whoever, wherever you......
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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 past, like blazi......
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Categories:
phantasmal, courage, emotions, encouraging, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Lady In the Mist
...The Lady in the Mist
In a land where memories are lost within a heartbeat
Where all of your dreams and imagination find retreat
Somewhere between a glimpse, what is lost, what is real
Drawing ......
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Categories:
phantasmal, beauty, myth,
Form:
Ballad