Short Simulacrum Poems

life tests you without
a prior simulacrum
to prevent failure













1-10-2016...

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Living inside a memory,
dying within a dream

Reality turned against itself
—nothing what it seems

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)...

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Here is the summary of everything:
or pulsating love,
or hemlock ...
Or love in its entirety,
or nothing...
Because life without love
it's not life
it's simulacrum ...!...

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Unless you are a simpleton
   you figure out that life
    has only one way
    to be lived...
     With Power anf glory !
    Otherwise it is not life,
    it is simulacrum...

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Simulacrum
David J Walker

It was 
	What I thought it was 
But only because 
I thought it was mine
And I would make it into 
The next thing 
that comes to mind
and call it love
	even if it kills me...

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Imprison the blaze
for unlearning 
the ghost of our light
to bow down before
an interim simulacrum
of the sham.

You said,
that the colours are so hurting;
that this soundless shapelessness
comforts you.

I cannot extricate you.
Cannot unleash 
from the unbreachable
for I learned that 
this stasis is your only home....

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Candle Masquerade by Pixabay.

Symphonic Sconce
(The Candle)

Seasoned succession
Sanctioned section
Soloist strings
Streaming satisfaction
Spirited sheathed
Solidly settles
Sustained symmetry
Stalwart stance
Stage set
Soft shades
Simulacrum sources
Spark stirs
Silhouette styles
Sparkling surfaces
Shining signature

2023 January 03

*Alliteration/Personification...

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Sifting through the faint pages of the memory
Imbedded in dreams long buried and forgotten;
Muted voice of a young boy comes back to stay,
Unfurling from the deepest corner of the brain;
Latent images of a once carefree, innocent youth
Almost faded now yet, vaguely remembered still;
Clouded by the passage of the unforgiving years,
Returning but once again to where I was back then;
Undoing the dents wrought by the passing time, I
Meet the present and promptly end the dreaming....

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