Phantasmal Poems

Cosmos

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Within the hazy clouds of the cosmos,
Amongst the glint of boiling stars and asphyxiating dust,
Where phantasmal realms dance with bleak reality,
Lie the foundations of new life in the unive...

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...

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...

Nocturne of Wounds

...A pallid night, a void's umbral reign,
Emptiness, a phantom, claimed the lane.
A dirge of noir, a melancholic strain,
Echoes, sepulchral, whispered in the rain.
The phantasmal memory, a haunting ...

Rekindled Soul's Journey

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Written: February 23, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France 

Quote: “ We journey not to escape existence, but to ensure existence does not escape us.”  By Poet
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The Ephemeral Bloom of Love's Elysium

...Love's tender bloom, a fleeting, transient grace,
A rapturous dream, a seraphic delight,
Where hearts entwined in an amorous embrace,
Find solace in the moon's ambrosial light.
But passion's fire...

Faded Hue of Pale

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Based on the song, Whiter Shade of Pale

Sung By Glenn Hughes
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Faded Hue of Pale

We twirled in a wild Spanish dance,
spinning in circles on the floor,
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Crimson Bouquet

...In spectral glow moon's pallor, 
country home towered ominously,
fortress bearing silent the tragedy,
ensnared within its stone.
Her footfalls echoed in the hollow foyer,
mournful dirge in the c...

Let's Tango

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Cheek to cheek, your hand in mine 
you draw me in, then swirl me round 
Inside your eyes I feel Divine 
like a gazelle in a forest ground 

Tango to tango lets dance all night 
beneath the mo...

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...

Costuming Halloween Just Playing Here

...Costuming Halloween

Masque my visage fast!
…So my eyes bulge out, drunken red, and give me
    purpled, hairy lips and cheeks to complete 
My bloodcurdling look — Yikes!
So scary…Not sweet!
S...

Stars In the Dark

...Pain
Expunge
Green darner
Waltzing in mist
at midnight cobalt.
You're crazy by night sky. 
the stars upon which you stare.  
despite those shortsighted white specks,
Spruce-colore...

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 24 gold petals   
dancing to the spellbinding tune of a Pix...

Doughnut Man Seeks Insubstantial Woman of Substance

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"Doughnut Man Seeks Insubstantial Woman of Substance"



Doughnut Man 
seeks ghost whole 
to fit his missing peace

Chimeric Dream Girl
seeks h...

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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