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Trompe Poems - Poems about Trompe


Premium Member The Pied Piper
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean--poet As the Pied Piper grips her baton, she conducts her subjects, women of the Mississip......

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Categories: trompe, 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member Trompe L'oiel
... 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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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