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Illusion Poems - Poems about Illusion

Premium Member Illusion
“is life an illusion?” ... As a young kid, loved the magical illusion... With every flick of the hand, a world unfolds, Mysteries hidden in stories told, Where wonder reigns and logic defies, In the heart of magic, the illusion lies. As a grown-up kid, illusion took over thoughts .... In a world where...

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Categories: illusion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member what have i become
i lowered my guard and let you in a child-man disappointing me at every turn i'm fuming under my hat half afraid of an explosion one step forward two steps back how easy it is to close my eyes and pretend everything's alright a balancing act when in fact we are at opposite ends of the spectrum have i become someone who settles or are my...

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Categories: illusion, dream, future, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One of a Kind
Why be concerned with transparency People are blind, they really can’t see With distortion and illusion in the word today And bias and lies in what people say Just be who you are, one of a kind The truth will totally blow their mind They’ll be so confused trying to figure you out Their miscalculations will still leave them doubt They’ll still try...

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Categories: illusion, confusion, creation, life, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Legerdemain
The magician wore my mother’s perfume and conjured family from thin air— a brother renamed uncle, a wife recast as mother, a daughter vanishing behind a tale of bees. Each sleight of hand was tender— a hush, a smile, a bowl of soup cooling on the Formica while the truth was sawed in half and tucked beneath the linoleum. No one told me why my “uncle”...

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Categories: illusion, confusion, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Partner I Painted
I said I knew him— like the sea knows the moon, drawn, pulled, dancing tides to his rhythm. I traced constellations in the freckles on his back, wrote sonnets on the way he stirred his coffee, knew his heartbeat like a song I was born with. I could name the sound his silence made, the way his right eye twitched when he...

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Categories: illusion, love, memory,
Form: Free verse



The Colors of Nothing
In our universe so vast, life and death is an interpretation. In our life, we hold dear sadness, and joy is an imagination. Our life is full of colors, or so we assume, But there are no colours — just the product of our brains. Reality is beyond what we imagine. What we see around is just an illusion. Nothing is...

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Categories: illusion, 10th grade, angst, color,
Form: Free verse
Fragment of a Burning
Your voice cuts through my morning thoughts, While coffee grows cold in my hands. I memorize each word you speak— How foolish love can make demands. You mention rain and subway delays, Small troubles that fill up your day. I turn them into precious things, Though you mean nothing that you say. My friends show pictures of their dates, While I rehearse what I...

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Categories: illusion, cute love,
Form: Quatrain
Code of Illusion
They built a world of wires and lies, Wrapped it neatly in the skies. Taught you dreams through filtered screens, Fed you systems, sold you means. Your food is poison, your music's low, Your clothes are spells you didn’t know. The news you watch is scripted fear, The truth erased, year after year. Behind the curtain, shadows rule, Old money laced with hidden tools. They...

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Categories: illusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
DECEIT IS A SILENT KILLER
Deceit is a silent killer Yet so many wear it well They master the art of pretending And call the mask a shield. Like her She crowned me with tender lies Draped in robes of sweet illusion And I, the fool, saw no disguise. I was blind To the poison in her touch Too drunk on the way she smiled Too far gone to feel the...

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Categories: illusion, 12th grade, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Residue
Things are not making sense, and I am questioning if my reality is so because I thought it in to being. Am I the only one hearing the truth? Am I the only one believing? I think I am in need of a witness. Archons deceive souls using the illusion of separation. The mind is the sole...

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Categories: illusion, dark, humor, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
MY BRAIN DOG
I have a brain. But not just any brain — I have a brain dog. It doesn’t sit. It doesn’t stay. It runs. Fast. Far. Wild. It sniffs every thought ever thought. Dreams in 4D. Overthinks lunch plans like it's nuclear policy. Sometimes... it chases shadows. Dark ones. Horror-movie-type thoughts. So I lock it up.! “Time-out,” I say. “No more mind mazes today.” And there...

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Categories: illusion, anxiety, art, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Into The Black Hole Sun - A Cosmic Ballad of Love, Loss and Illusion, Music Video
This piece was sparked by an idea in a fellow poet Tom Woody’s’ — “Last Dance Amid the Stars.” I however, followed a very different emotional path — one that avoids finality and leaves room for mystery and one’s own imagination. The story also touches on the true stories of a growing trend with...

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Categories: illusion, anxiety, grief, lost love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member As if time was an illusion
hello my darling he said to me as he waltzed casually back into my like AP: 1st place 2025...

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Categories: illusion, hello, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Illusioned
This world illudes us Like a mirage enticing; Still, we cling to it....

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Categories: illusion, life, light, loss, love,
Form: Haiku
Master of Illusion
Worlds from sleight of hand, What you see is not what's real, Magic in the air. ©bfa051725 ...

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Categories: illusion, imagination, magic,
Form: Haiku

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