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Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment

alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly 
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit; 
ofttimes imagined as time thief.

Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...

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Categories: illusory, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...

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Categories: illusory, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,... 

a willing experimental subject 
to escape untenable married life.

Upon falling into a deep slumber, 
the following subconscious 
somnambulant scenario arose 
allowing, enabling, and providing 
temporary alleviation from 
outa harried...

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Categories: illusory, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Abominable Alliance
Thru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen fear, you do attest as you suckle on the beastly...

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Categories: illusory, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
This Thought, This Time
THIS THOUGHT THIS TIME
This is the time. To put forth in writing the words that plague my mind. An inevitable forthcoming of thoughts internally suppressed, I have thoughts that beg to be told from a...

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Categories: illusory, deep, humanity, social, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member April Fools For Bobby Lee
“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...

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Categories: illusory, allegory, break up, history,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member This Day Is Bright Thoughts Take Flight
This day is Bright ! 
Thoughts take Flight .

Music – the companion of my soul !
Books – the confidants to my mind !
Daughters – the reasons for life to know
more than experience has allowed me...

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Categories: illusory, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Scenery In the Period of Sound
Visual surroundings-
Some of it are monotonous -
Tiring are Some of it sometimes-
Maybe traditional scenes
Unknowingly builds the pinnacle -
Of the dreamless minaret.

Or-
Talk about rubbish
That rains incessantly
Disturbs the Subconscious.


Rather in the darkness of decade
Or-
It can be seen...

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© Reza Raza  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusory, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Compensatory Man Par Excellence
I seldom indulge in letter writing 
Because I consider it 
To be a cold and illusory 
Means of communication. 
I will only send someone a letter 
If I'm certain it's going to serve 
A definite...

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Categories: illusory, me,
Form: Free verse
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious Mortal
Most mind boggling mysterious mortal

Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse

detains, deters, detours manhood maturation
manumission manifestation materialization
linkedin, when permanent submission arises
beckoning...

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Categories: illusory, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Is It Not
Yellow is the color of the sun,
is it not?

It’s the same color as the Asian
valet corporate fella,
holding a Salvation Army red pot
Collecting inflated IPO fees 
at an illegal
dot.com parking lot

Always yielding to temptation,
is the armored...

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Categories: illusory, spiritual, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can
"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusory, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
April 5, 2023 Refracted Reflections
April 5, 2023 – refracted reflections:

The following lines
haphazardly linkedin 
slap dash fashion
over the course 
of dazed and confused days,
therefore desist reading 
any profound meaning
if you dear reader dare expend 
energy and time perusing 
meandering gibberish....

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Categories: illusory, 12th grade, adventure, allegory, appreciation, beautiful, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep Listening Communions
"The deepening perception
of the body's illusory nature
is one of the most profound
and inspiring realizations
we can have
to help us let go [of dying bodies and minds].

Deep listening
of our mind's transition-illuminating
flowing nature
is one of the most profound
empowering
enlightening
and...

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Categories: illusory, culture, earth, environment, god, health, integrity, language,
Form: Political Verse
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get
rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday
January thirteenth...

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Categories: illusory, age, america, creation, environment, fate, history, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Masquerade
A colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises 
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
 Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot be seen
Secrets tucked away in their eyes
Each a pair of...

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Categories: illusory, extended metaphor, freedom, imagery, imagination, insect, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resonant Rails
The direct sensing of information may sometimes be deceptive and illusory due to such factors as coincidence, congruence, or the time-and-angle distortions of perspective. For instance, the parallel railroad tracks seem (mistakenly) to converge at...

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Categories: illusory, heart, nature, perspective, psychological, science, time, universe,
Form: Free verse
A fanta see overrides reality
A fanta see overrides reality!

Hello?
I like to get positioned for sixty nine. 

Are you looking for a scheming, 
schlepping, and schvitzing writer? 
natural body and laid-back vibe??
I'm all about therapeutic touch via
bolts, nuts, screws 
and...

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Categories: illusory, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Samsara In the 5th
"Samsara in the 5th"



The phenomenal world
is illusory, it calls for 
nothing of substance
romance is laid out
legs and hearts spread
open like a catalogue 
touched through the 
remittance of words
clicking like 
manolo blahniks
across a warm keyboard
cool slender...

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Categories: illusory, desire, dream, fantasy, imagery, psychological, trust, truth,
Form: Romanticism
Whoami Within Following Figurative Nutshell
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get.

A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe
antiauthoritarian, bookish...

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Categories: illusory, age, break up, confusion, dark, environment, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Concepts Phantasmagorical
When the cows come home to roost,
	or the crows are grazing grass,
It’s time I wrote a rhyme,
	until yesterday returns to pass!
If bats in the belfry stay sleeping,
	until the clock strikes the noon of day,
Tis then...

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Categories: illusory, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Enemies of My World
ENEMIES OF MY WORLD

They are the enemies of my world
I do the wrong, and they the right
They love nothing more than to criticize me
They preach repentance yet they need deliverance
They are the armored assassins of...

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Categories: illusory, pain, me, world, fear, me, time,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way Right
Solitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?

Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words

with great difficulty,...

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Categories: illusory, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form: Elegy
Me very late mum, a funereal day
Me very late mum, a funereal day...

courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian, 
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.

Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of 
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...

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Categories: illusory, absence, age, america, anniversary, atheist, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Rising Yellow Sun
We all saw the lousy fearful storm,
Up the sky of our newborn town,
Everyone thought it’s a summer’s dawn,
Where there couldn’t be heavy rain nor storm;

We closed our ears to the weeping sky,
Even when the cloud...

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© Abas Obot  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusory, africa, conflict, history, memorial, political, symbolism, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things