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Best Svengali Poems

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Premium Member Svengali
Seduces the benighted then lifts the

Veil to reveal his Janus face; a demon

Entrapping lost souls in his clutches

Never fall under his spell. Beware!

Go confidently with...

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Categories: svengali, analogy, encouraging, god, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic



The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She...

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Categories: svengali, analogy, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Reaching For the Light
In the waiting room, the plant
Sat near the windowsill.
Purple leaves were nodding
Like they had their own free will.

Their skinny stems supported
What were leaves split up...

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Categories: svengali, light, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Monomaniacal Mist
Monomaniacal Mist

I am the finite of the infinite for the shadows bleed my presence
My habitual hunger is imminent and toxicant time is of the essence
Like...

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Categories: svengali, death, destiny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Road
My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would...

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Categories: svengali, age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio



Premium Member The Last Book of Rebecca
THE LAST BOOK OF REBECCA
There did come out from the land of in between,
where no mind has ever been before,
the spirit of the space,
and it...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: svengali, abuse, addiction, america, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Cheater and Cheator
Like two paynim peas in a pod,
their scurvy color
lipslick scheme is sour green

Got beady black eyes
scam shady — 
A graft gaze that squints bifurcated focus
from...

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Categories: svengali, identity, leadership, money, perspective,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Vignette- Pa Dow
The svengali of American art
His teaching gave so many a start
'Harmony & balance' his famed word-play
'Filling space in a beautiful way'
In Georgia's heart,his words did...

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Categories: svengali, art, history, people
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hypnotic Aural Guru
A sliver moonlight 
icon’s silhouette 
rooted to the spot 
sitar sensei pop
art venue dye stamped

wistful sly grin 
masks grey tinged beard 
svengali imp 
of fretboard...

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Categories: svengali, age, art, august, change,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Book: Shattered Sighs