Illusion Poems - Poems about Illusion

The Illusion of Wealth In vaults of paper, riches lie, Where bankers print and fortunes fly. Our mothers sold dreams wrapped in gold, While the rich just watched, growing bold. Education, a shadowed veil, Controlled by those who spin the tale. Rockefeller’s...Read the rest...

Man gazes upon the shattered horizon Witness to a cosmos, boundless as his imagination Men beckon him as a fool Only they have twisted visions Belittling as insignificant to expanse ahead This beholder sees opportune As if a sea...Read the rest...

they thought Sheila was timid and timorous she fooled them with her quietude and her lack of participation in family debates no one saw her as cunning or diabolical no one saw her at all she became as invisible as...Read the rest...

I've no strength left to keep fighting, motivation has worn off like stealth; voices have no happy sounds, faces are sad, nobody laughs... I'm a ghost wandering among the living; I walk past a cemetery, I smell death! Isn't...Read the rest...

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Take a picture Take a picture, of a man, do you see? Hologram is gone Yeah, keep the photo, keep it, watch the face, it is love Your love, he needed you, but the time is gone, bring...Read the rest...

When impossible Became a surprise, agape To say it's a trick....Read the rest...

Asleep in your life, deep in the dream, When will you wake? It’s not what it seems. Projecting, accusing, constantly afraid; Shunning salvation for the tragic dreams you’ve made. Then, without warning, something occurs, A glimpse of Reality; but...Read the rest...

Entering a rustic, glass-domed Greenhouse, I stepped into a timeless illusion. Silence muted the scuttle of a mouse, living in this synthetic seclusion. Within a succulent juggle of green, sweet scents emanate from every blossom. One of the prettiest places I've...Read the rest...

They hailed him as a hero, it turned out he was a fool, I followed the herd, but forgot this basic rule: Check the car works, before you drive it down the hill The speedbump of reality undoes...Read the rest...

It slithers and slides..' It hints and nudges..' Derides! sheds skin. Confusing identity.'s Yet some intently see ' in conundrums and Delusions scattered seeds and such patterns of un-reason.'...Read the rest...

In a world of synthetic dreams, Where nothing is quite as it seems, Emotions emanate and rise, Painting stories across the skies. Swirling thoughts in a misty haze, Drift through memory's rustic maze. A timeless dance...Read the rest...

The ILLUSION of a TIMELESS SILENCE Drenched the RUSTIC creaking barn Its tortured wind scarred face Snarling at the SWIRLING winds A lonely BLOSSOM sprouts atop a fencepost Mice scurry about an empty silo A naked scarecrow dances in a barren...Read the rest...

Silence permeates a desolate landscape. Fossil fuels and nukes laid waste to everything we knew, everyone we loved, now unnaturally erased. Yet, a cozy, rustic, little cottage stands. A child's scrawl says, "Mom you're...Read the rest...

Dazzling, synthetic lights emanate from polished silver, Penetrating my deep, chemically induced sleep. Blinking sensitive eyes, I raise my swirling head. I sit up and walk into a corridor of glass display cases. Rustic farm...Read the rest...