The Pied Piperess
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...
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Categories:
trompe, evil, parody,
Form: Prose
Caesar’s Serenade
...Cleopatra,
I investigate your eyes
through Nile mist that weaves,
jade butterflies that never fly
sable tresses hanging over leopards
bole skin on the border of Venusian dreamcatchers
Gilde...
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Categories:
trompe, aubade, desire, fate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Carpe diem
...Scar tissue, birthmarks, happy times, and grief
Corrugate man’s brain, a coral motif
Emotions, synapses, signals unknown
Grotesque in nature, splits open when stoned
Still pictures emerge, fi...
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Categories:
trompe, death, life, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
Trompe L'oiel
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Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed
I taught you
the primary colors, RED, YELLOW, and BL...
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Categories:
trompe, analogy, anger, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Hoogstraten
...Samuel von Hoogstraten
drew still life with a pen
Trompe d'oiel hs speciality
to display life's mystery...
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Categories:
trompe, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Insights
...INSIGHTS
recalled
words
hollowing
out a memory
in a trompe l’œil
of
a
disparate
miscellany
held
aloft&
framed
in view
a living
collage
ongoing
carefree
&
literally
done...
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Categories:
trompe, poetry,
Form: Other
Rose Queen
...Ooh la la, the rose, coronate her beauty.
Her ruffled scent, her hues, dare not refuse.
When petals red, like strawberry-fruity,
and lovey-dovey white, one must persue.
Persistent vei...
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Categories:
trompe, beauty, flower,
Form: Personification
No Business Like Swamp Business
...NO BUSINESS LIKE SWAMP BUSINESS
There’s no business like Swamp faux business
There’s none do such a show
Everything about it is illusion
Everything about it is a lie
Where else could you get s...
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Categories:
trompe, political,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Love of Mine
...Walking down the quaint city street entering the sweetshop,
Oh yes! Hershey’s Almond Milk Chocolate tasty flavor
Sweetheart chooses sweet licorice and hot fudge brownie delight,
Sweetie pie and I...
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Categories:
trompe, happiness, happy, husband, love,
Form: Free verse
Blind Man Lure
...Across thIs scenic route a fools gold signpost,
pointing in the wrong direction to some vibrant deep green “plot” that lost its hue on close inspection.
Visionary luscious slope and peak,
giddy si...
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Categories:
trompe, dream, emotions, fantasy, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tarnished Reflections
...We’re rightfully concerned
It seems to be a dark dubious world
We’re bringing you into
Threatening and not so promising
How long can we shelter you from it all
You’re tiny not even able to crawl...
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Categories:
trompe, angst, dark, future, growing
Form: Free verse
Lycurgus Cup- Disdained Glass Deed of a Wolf
...The glazier putting the cup in its place a disdained glass The vine of Sodom wrapping like a snake in the grass ...
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Categories:
trompe, allegory, betrayal, christian, corruption,
Form: Couplet
The Little Prince of Our House
...Our excitement to have you in our life
That you deserve a regal retreat inside our house
This once dark room spruced up with chic bedroom
With soaring peaked ceiling overlooking your bedroom
The wal...
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Categories:
trompe, child, family, home, inspirational,
Form: Sestina
Flying
...What great perspective flying gives;
The mundane is surreal;
Wide angled eyes so clearly see
Our Earth's greatest appeal.
The land's a patchwork quilt of farms,
And lakes look just like puddle...
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Categories:
trompe, philosophy, space, visionary, perspective,
Form: Rhyme