Illusion Poems - Poems about Illusion

...To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s complete and absolute helplessness. As long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself. Through ......Read the rest...

...I cycled to Hawthorne before the dawn, Saw a deer on Taxter Road leading a fawn. I reached a field of the kids little League. Waited for the train, too pumped for fatigue. The train passed by l......Read the rest...

...Time to hide inside illusion Which you can afford Find a beautiful seclusion At a last resort It’s a marvel of a living You don’t have to pay Just keep sending and receiving Pictures of the da......Read the rest...

...Under the dome of eternity, where the stars weave the secrets of the cosmos, I learn at my own expense that on the long path of life, I encounter many masks and few faces, In a world full of decep......Read the rest...

...you can't resist my skin let me fall into my feminity we're all saved there as I morph to delicate sirenesque of the sky you mak......Read the rest...

... Ledger of Love In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home, Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome. Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast, But now a thin whisp, a ghost......Read the rest...

...Under the veil of eternal shadow, sown with lost dreams, It’s no use closing your eyes, you must keep them open in the dark, This is my creed, I’m not speaking of sleep, I’m speaking of what I bel......Read the rest...

...Under the cathedral of infinity, stretched above lost dreams, I do nothing with my life but romanticize and decay in indecision, I weave dreams from the ethereal threads of the moon and drape them ......Read the rest...

... Wisdom dawned, but late Life is on the verge Peeping through the past ......Read the rest...

...Under leaden skies and wandering moments, I have roamed through empty lands and silent hills, I am old with time and lost dreams, But I will find where she has gone, in the endless universe. I wi......Read the rest...

...Under leaden skies where shadows gather, We look back at the great tragedy of the ages, Since the Enlightenment, we admire the shattered dreams, Where optimists, as architects of false hopes, Hav......Read the rest...

... Written: May 05, 2024, For Jaymee Thomas Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Incessant ticking of timepieces, reverberating clatter of a mallet in motio......Read the rest...

...The marble block before me Chipped away enough to look busy Stood proudly Dust and marble flaked Hammer and chisel in hand As passersby asked: “what is it” I told them: ” it is a thought ......Read the rest...

... From bright sunshine to dark caves From cozy cradle to forlorn graves From autumn gloom to spring bloom ......Read the rest...

...“Persistence In Memory” - Salvador Dali “There is a time for everything” – Ecclesiastes Dreamscapes. Dali, are you attacking reality? You invoke curiosity. The natural form of a tree, Growin......Read the rest...