Short Magic Trick Poems

I tried my hand at a magic trick,
it was supposed to make others sick,
so while the blood was flowing
I knew I would need sewing...
Can someone stitch an artery, quick?...

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Death
Like a magic trick where something vanishs
The smell of a rose, decay, and then nothing
Amazing and Frightening sound of silence
Death is cold, lost, and gone forever...

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When just a lad, I thought I was magic,
doing a trick could sometimes be tragic. 
The bird sang the wrong song,
the rabbit was long gone.
When they booed, I got very dramatic....

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Flavored water sticking on wooden stick 
Its luscious top is so tasteful to lick 
Like bar of sultry heaven 
I've been craving since seven 
Tender hearts are caught in its magic trick

2nd place...

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A magic trick
I'd often feared
You were there
Then disappeared

No rabbit pulled
From empty hat
No cute tulips
Or polished chat

I'd rather 
I was cut in two
Than have to deal
With missing you...

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Once there was a man called Frank Benhance,
Believes writing for contest certainly enhances.
Enhance by stunt & gimmick-doubt!
Enhance by magic & trick – doubt!
Bloody, sustainable establishment - Soup poets enhance....

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How sweet,
so pretty,
to disappear
into smoke.
I am a magician,
with a flourish
and a white dove.
I lie down
in my bed of
green,
this magic trick,
and I share with you
my deceit.
So welcomed, so sweet,
this fiend....

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This is all an alibi
Let's pretend I wasn't there

In my mind
I'm in a different place anyway
That's the place where I truly care

This is all an illusion
A magic trick that never ends

Someday I'll snap out of it
And life will never be the same...

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Monday morning all is blue, 
Heaving oneself out of bed in a hullabaloo, 
Dark outside as Halloween sets in, 
Slugs attacking the teeth of our pumpkin, 
Son demanding I arrange his cards for a magic trick, 
Daughter huffing, expecting her breakfast to appear real quick, 
I want to shut the door and hide away, 
Under my inviting warm duvet....

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I like to lick honey when I'm sick,
even though I know it'll stick,
makes me feel so much better,
those worker bees must add ,
something extra ,extra special
besides creating it very thick,
looks like they must include ,
some quite healthy healing charms...
yes, yes,yes that must be it!
It's like a secret magic trick!

Copyright McCuen 2009...

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And away
Serene looking sky
Seems to be holding the earth and comforting 

Come up with any magic trick
The invisibility is locked
Where the earth would be lonely again
Without locking the doors of the eyes
I'm looking at that in the tumor mirror 

Many nights
Revolving around his eyes
However, his eyes are looking hopefully towards the sky 
Hungry survivors sit on the farm...

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the stage is set
for a magic trick of a life time
renewal and rebirth
the act of growing up to be little

the past life forgotten
lessons learned carried forward

a whirlwind of glitter
inside a solar powered box
turning the many wheels
of the generator

getting old enough to forget
the child you once were
and are about to be again
eternal

sometimes everything changes
when you see your mother...

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Reframe the vision they see of your life
make it seem real easy put on a show;
They tend to wield your past just like a knife; 
Selfies and status updates you outgrow 
reset the loop just let them think they know;
Create an illusion laced with control; 
Put those vacant views into a black hole,
walk away turn your back on what’s toxic; 
What is visible is never the whole;
Just stack that deck become a magic trick....

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If we let go for
a moment
 sparkling light
lures us to that 
other world
    We move 
closer to the source
and we find that 
it has disappeared
  Some kind of 
magic trick, I suppose
     Yet the lights 
on the other 
   side of 
the bay
      still shine
The exsistence of light
   is relative to the 
exsistence of darkness
   Can we watch the dance and join in?
   Or are we missing the forest for the 
trees?...

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Growing up in a racist world
Doesn't matter if your a boy or a girl
It will never change, it's all the same 
People enjoy inflicting pain  
Hurt feeling's for saying the wrong word 
People really are disturbed
It was bad, but now it's worse 
The past is a horrific curse 
People protest and scream and yell 
Living in their own personal hell
Keep trying to find a fix
Emotions are extremely mixed
It's all a massive magic trick...

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Scattered shattered shards of mirrors
Sparkle in dissipating smoke
A hungry hawk crisscrosses the darkening field
Searching for supper in the dead winter weeds
A single cloud caught in lower winds
speeds across the slower mass above
To disappear like some magic trick
Directly in front of the setting sun.
Last night four deer browsed beside us
We wait patiently sipping the last flute
Three each per sunset and no hurry
This is our time....

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Somtimes the face mask is just a face mask.
Often the face masks matures
showing the life-roads that a person has chosen,
for good or worse.

Always forgiveness has no mask.

Sometimes beauty hides an ugliness,
more often ugliness hides the beauty.
Mostly, a homily face veils the light of God.

Appearance and perception are a magic trick,
not of any mask
but of those who judge it.

A mask cannot hide the perfection
from those who have taken off
their own masks....

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