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Phantasms Poems - Poems about Phantasms

Premium Member Frigid
...Cold wins blow across My weary bones Feathered icicles Hanging high above home Downey woodpecker Eating a suet mix Nature’s inadequacy For a protein fix Cats watch behind Glass doors Pha......

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Categories: phantasms, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun, thoughts coiling like serpents
...Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun, thoughts coiling like serpents, I'm engulfed by the desire to run, to run, to run to nowhere, I race through forests of shadows, where trees whisper forg......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In a world of dreams, where hope vanishes into nothingness
...In a world of dreams, where hope vanishes into nothingness, Life is a drunken beggar, holding out its hand towards its own shadow, phantasms of illusions passing through its troubled mind, like a ......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the twilight of a violet sunset, when my soul dons veils of melancholy
...In the twilight of a violet sunset, when my soul dons veils of melancholy, I sit alone, surrounded by phantasms and unspoken words, whispering ancient incantations, My verses, silk threads woven fr......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears
...These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears. We are still cave people. Democratic cave people, perhaps, but that brings little comfort. Our struggle is to emerge from the cave. ......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In the twilight of thoughts, where echoes drift like autumn leaves
...In the twilight of thoughts, where echoes drift like autumn leaves, I wander through memories, a labyrinth of shadows and whispers, Each step, a ripple in the pond of dreams, distorting the reflect......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets
...Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets, History is a nightmare shrouded in veils of dark mystery, A tapestry of shadows and lights, a labyrinth of untold desti......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Consensus reality is like a desert mirage
...Consensus reality is like a desert mirage, An aurora of shadows and lights where dreams become tangible, Each desire intertwined with the invisible threads of common belief, Our world, a palace of......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost To The Four Winds
...Fiendish, they encapsulate strawberries; Subliminal message makes mouths water; Phantasms won’t let go of the fields lost to the four winds of conflagration; Subliminal message makes mouths w......

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Categories: phantasms, emotions, fire, horror,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The labyrinth of the mind transforms into a somber temple, where glyphs of thought intertwine
...The labyrinth of the mind transforms into a somber temple, where glyphs of thought intertwine, And beneath the dome of the nocturnal sky, hearts like ancient scrolls unfold and burn in incantations.......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a Strange Place
... It's a very strange place when in dreams I chase phantasms, a figmant of imagination, or an apparition of warning from my soul, seeing what is hidden from the light of day. It's a very ......

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Categories: phantasms, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How I wished I had been granted to know
...How I wished I had been granted to know, The depth of the unused words, the hallucination of a happiness with purpose. My labor, how much has dissipated into the void, in the vast unknown, All the......

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Categories: phantasms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Empathed Crossroads
... My dumbwaiter thoughts circle beyond dumb tongue, nummed by the enigma of autistic brilliance. Now that I only see in infrared spectometry. ......

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Categories: phantasms, art,
Form: Free verse
Watercolor Nightmare
...Pardon for fingers Body painting my fixed face— Marking up a scene Of raw phantasms that look Like they're falling for my tears.......

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Categories: phantasms, angst, art, feelings, introspection,
Form: Tanka
Ring
...Plain emptiness, where I touch an ebony diamond, only gives me edges— wiped in my macadam; heartache an old rust from repetitious beats the faceted phantasms link, perhaps to mask their f......

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Categories: phantasms, angst, dark, deep, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

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