A Phantasmagoria of Nonsense
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 from darkness and void
Reborn to mock myself again.
With a splash
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, addiction, writing,
Form: Free verse
Phantasmagoria
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 phantasmagoria
Before I pass on if there's any love justice
I'll caress
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Phosphenes
A sky denuded of stars
Is just like a garden devoid of blossoms.
Even when the night sky goes aloof too,
I close my eyes
And enter into a profound colloquy
With the phosphenes of my eyes.
These flickering phosphenes spring up at once
Presenting a phantasmagoria of various hues of blues.
How well have these phosphenes deciphered
That I possess
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Phantasmagoria
A constant ringing in the ear.
It is completely insane.
Unrelenting and frightening.
I hope that it will leave soon.
are you aware of the adage?
Ear ringing refers to evoking around you.
Sparks that are dying, creating an abyss.
Casting life shades out of existence.
Loops pursue delight as their goal.
Bound to combine matters eternally.
Love soared to a hypersonic speed.
Written: December 11, 2022
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Phantasmagoria of Vijay Pandit
P-lenipotentiary plumes of idyllic and quixotic art,
H-e, In Land of Cockaigne, enchants a fairy’s heart.
A-nd a gift, Glimpses of my village with “rosy dawns,”
N-ay to hear “rooster calls,” “ruby skies,” to fawn.
T-o a Flamingo, pink gentilities and regal, I revere
A- lovely poet, full of grandeur — gentleman in the mirror.
S-imulacrum, frowning face of frippery
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Phantasmagoria
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 her tender petals.
November 5, 2020
Pick-A-Title, Vol 24 - Triolet -
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, analogy, dream, memory,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
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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Pick-A-Title, Vol 24- Triolet-Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh 11/02/2020
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, dream, surreal,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
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 rose
October 29, 2020
Placed 1st: Pick-A-Title, Vol 24- Triolet - Poetry
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, feelings, imagery, love,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
Images of death enshroud me
Blackness closes in, I stumble
Silent shadows overcrowd me
Images of death enshroud me
Chasms of dark reflections cloud me
Ebony mirages jumble
Images of death enshroud me
Blackness closes in, I stumble
10.27.2020
Title: Phantasmagoria
For Edward Ibeh's "Pick-a-Title: Vol.24, Triolet" contest
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, dark, death, dream,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
The sky reflects the broken bodies laid out.
Blood soaked field and severed heads skewered on pikes.
Racing forth towards fallen comrades with a shout.
The sky reflects the broken bodies laid out.
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, dream, heart, war,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
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 shadows cast by trees at night-
as wind
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, confusion, imagination,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
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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Categories:
phantasmagoria, allusion, horror, image,
Form: Triolet
Nightmare In Phantasmagoria
A phantom spreads shadows over the ground,
black in its entirety of shape.
Swallowing all semblance of a life
in the darkened path, he ne'er takes a break.
Bitingly, the dreary clouds open up with
an assault of sharpened swords of pouring rain,
soaking the ground in abject sorrow, like tears.
Cloaked in silence, a silhouette, opaque,
creeps slowly along in token steps.
Smoked
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, gothic, halloween, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Phantasmagoria
Whispers of secret dreams paint my thoughts
With a mirage of intimate hues, soft colors
Gentle ambers, warm and welcoming, snapshots
Whispers of secret dreams paint my thoughts
Dancing in shades of lavender, casting lots
Fantasies that whirl to and fro like watercolors
Whispers of secret dreams paint my thoughts
With a mirage of intimate hues, soft colors!
Pick-A-Title, Vol 24 - Triolet
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, dance, dream, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Triolet
Phantasmagoria
I dream figments of imagination,
and fantasies phantasmagoria;
the visions of my mind's coloration !
I dream figments- of imagination,
dark illusions of this life's damnation;
yet, these phantasms bring euphoria !
I dream . . . figments of imagination;
and fantasies_ phantasmagoria !
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October 17, 2020
Poetry/Triolet/Phantasmagoria
Copyright Protected, ID 10-1295-831-17
All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Pick-A-Title, Vol
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Categories:
phantasmagoria, dream,
Form: Triolet
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