Short Phantasmagoria Poems

Melting campfire delite is right
We'll vibe tales to heat our bones
Singing in the dead of night
Passionate lips caress
While igniting the power of mind
Reality all nonsense...

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LIFE


Life:
This drama 
This mystery
This enigma
This paradox
This choreography
This symphony
This phantasmagoria 
This poetry 
This ecstasy 
This apotheosis of 
Creation!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
       26 MAY 2013...

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there below the last of her 
  b r o k en  h e ART 
     spread a love
        that soothed
a secret sorrow!
  with life a most in-
considerate partner
   of grit, emotion,
 and sweat she bit,
punched and screamed,
"If you'd leave me 
alone please!"

:: 03-29-2017 ::...

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Underwater prisms and rainbows
  shimmering translucent seas
Exotic fish, bizarre shapes and sizes
  colorful coral grown larger than trees

Imagination yields her accustomed throne
  to phantasmagoria, kaleidoscopic scenes...
Yet gazing out my window to at rolling fields of corn
  at golden grains and sunsets, to simplicity are we born...

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As my doleful gaze upon thy form hath fallen,
Garbed in the fashion of sadness or mourning,
Nightly tresses thy sombre tone adorning,
Decadent and beauteous, as a Seraph fallen.

A woebegone faerie with wings lost and broken,
Enshrouded in blackness, a sepulchral lady,
With thy pallid skin and thy heart so shady,
Thou art a graveyard angel who seldom has spoken....

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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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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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SAGE

The Burning sage smoulder's the twilight phantasmagoria,
Ghosts of scented smoke drift from a blackened clay pot,
Creatures sing our Sun to Morpheus arms,
Silence of their heart beats a deeper wish now,
Simple dreams of love in the long grass replace digital desire; 
And all it took was our loss of freedom...

By
David Nickle Read
©D.N.Read 2020
All Rights Reserved By The Author

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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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Merciless movement
Atonal antipathy
Nonsensical noise

clarinet crescendo
soaring above
the collided cityscape

Harried hordes
Aggravating acrimony
Terrifying tumult

piano playing
plaintively over
the primal phantasmagoria

Torrid traffic
Alienated aliens
Nihilistic neon

soaring strings
singing through
the striking scenery...

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A bare tree
without offering any shade,
haunts me...
 It wishes to shelter birds
that are no longer here...,
This tree still conceives itself
shady and fruitful...
Ponders of when it was
  a mother that harbored puppies...
Night  against day passes...
Today, phantasmagoria reigns...
I ponder if the former time
 was suspended, so i feel
a warm smell,
  as if this time
still had color... !
 Observing such an antique
   vegetable delirium... !...

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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 Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title chosen: Phantasmagoria
Eight syllables per line (howmanysyllables.com)...

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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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Pick-A-Title, Vol 24 – Triolet Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh 
Chose: Title 2. Phantasmagoria  
          Placed 1st
© 20th October 2020...

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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 - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title Chosen: Phantasmagoria
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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. 
      Impaled into the chest, blood flowed there is no doubt. 
         Haunted Night terrors, squeezing heart-rending pain strikes. 

   The sky reflects the broken bodies laid out.
      Blood soaked field and severed heads skewered on pikes.


10/25/202...

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