CAMELOT FANTASIES

Upon the precipice
Poised as if in flight
I paused
               To stare
                              Trembling
Into the beckoning maw
The seductive darkness
Of the fathomless abyss
That whispered promises
Seducing my wavering mind
& with but one step
I fell

#thurspeak
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Warped masochism twisting my soul
Rending my flesh in imagined flayed torture
These webbed nightmares that haunt
Ever tightening their crushing embrace
Creeping horrors that immobilise
Chilling my blood to ice
“No escape for the wicked”
They taunt

🎨Digitalmasochism

#darklines
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In some shaded glade
Far from the madness
I’ll rest awhile
In a POCKET OF PEACE
While TALL DREAMS loom
Among drifting clouds

#DimpleVerse #23words
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Did she tempt you with seductive wiles?
Tantalise your jaded palate with something new?
Or was it the forbidden that caught your eye?
That clouded your mind as you spurned my love
This day shall you rue and forever curse
As the day your life went from bad to worse

#FIERYVERSE
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Oh how my wicked mind does work
Conjuring deviant images
Rich in sensual carnality

A world that judges
In harsh condemnation
Cannot comprehend
Nor even condone
My disobedient imagination

#intrigueverse 133
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Never stop dreaming
Reach for the stars
Be all that you can be
Let none keep you down
For they are the ones
Who keep to the shade
Afraid to try
While you can soar
With the eagles
Way way way on high

#verseangel
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Did she tempt you with seductive wiles?
Tantalise your jaded palate with something new?
Or was it the forbidden that caught your eye?
That clouded your mind as you spurned my love
This day shall you rue and forever curse
As the day your life went from bad to worse

#FIERYVERSE
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Nightingale of the night
Her SEDUCTIVE voice
Drew them
One by one
Dominoes
They fell
Consumed
Addicted
The POWER wielded
None could deny

#DimpleVerse
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Bound by love
Addicted to you
Hold me close
Never let me go

My flesh is yours
We are but one
Beneath the moon
Beneath the sun

Pic 1: unknown

#CarnalVerse 167
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Left behind
Each day
A little farther
The road to go
That bit longer

WAIT FOR ME
She cried aloud
You did PROMISE
Once upon a time

That together we’d be
Forever and always
I would be yours
And you’d be mine

#DimpleVerse
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Hark! They come
The riders of the night
From the valleys of the north
Hidden from sight
With no moon to guide
They know these hills
Silent shadows who ride
The cry of an owl
The scream of a death
Onward they ride
As the land holds its breath

#fieryverse

🎨Reivers Moon, E Martin
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Lost in the void
With no way out
The walls are closing
There is no doubt

My flesh is crawling
My lungs no more
I’m suffocating
Down here on the floor

Help me, please
My eyes do plead
As I flail for your hand
With no hope of ease

📷Daniele Serra

276 #DarkLines
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When time hangs heavy
And on my hands
My mind goes wandering
Through foggy mists of memory
That shift and part
Glimpses of echoes long forgotten
These winding roads of time
Without maps I travel through
Ever watching
Searching
For sight of you

#photo by S.C. Everett
#MadVerse
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He wore darkness like a shield
Mysterious and opaque
Within this shroud of mourning concealed
Writhed a haunted soul that none could break

#WrittenRiver 1456
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Within my heart
There lies a secret
That none can know
Nor even speak of it

Lest they betray
In jealous frenzy
My precious prize
The root of all envy

#becomingfragile
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Too late for you
My dear old friend
Rest now at ease
Your time at an end

Returned to moss
Secure in sylvan bonds
Rise no more to walk this earth
To dust shall you return
To dust is all your worth

(📷Tunebm Flickr, Bruges Cemetery, Belgium)

#DarkLines 277
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Lost in daydream LIMBO
What COULD HAVE been
Haunted my mind
In tropical nirvana
I WOULD HAVE peace
When I SHOULD HAVE you

#DimpleVerse #23words
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Always hurrying
Gaze upon some distant horizon
Some goal just out of reach
Never noticing
Completely unaware
Of those at our sides
Or guarding our backs
Always too late
Until we find ourselves alone
Abandoned to our fate

#fieryverse
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Serpentine gaze
Of the Medusa born
Forked tongue enchantress
To the brim filled with venom

Beware her coils
That surround you tight
Drawing you close
Though you may fight

She knows you well
Your every desire
Casting you down
Unto the fire

#writtenriver 1458
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On some sunny outcrop
Where dark has no place
In the final day of reckoning
Shall I know your face

When all shall be measured
Our true worth known then
That in the hallowed hereafter
Shall we meet again

#fieryverse
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Awash with whispers
In the ebb and flow
The ocean speaks
As winds do blow
Mischievous waves
That lap and play
Murmuring rumours
That none dare say

(Image art credit: Jimmy Lawlor)

#PoemTrail 272
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Tis a well known fact - almost elementary
That I myself consider almost rudimentary
That with careful and detailed observation
Of the matter at hand to be investigated
Shall deliver to me in all good time
The name of a certain Monsieur Moriarty

#intrigueverse 135
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Up the stairs
Out of sight
Anticipation burning
Of the coming night

Satin and lace
Glass of red wine
All is prepared
Tonight he’ll be mine

Pic 1: unknown
Pic 2: Jennifer Williams Photography

#carnalverse 167
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In blood we waded
Side by side
Brothers in arms
Honour & pride
Unto the end
All we had
We gave everything
Good over bad
My liege, my King
We bow to thee
Warriors true
Desiring nothing
Our fealty we swear
Now & forever more
To you alone
From our very core

🎨MinGyuLee
#FieryVerse
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Deep in the forest
Where none dare go
Silence enshrouds
& shadows grow

A warrior bold
True and fair
Steps forth from the light
He hasn’t a prayer

The knightmare he seeks
From rumours grown old
Craves his blood
With an appetite cold

🎨Jason Farmer
#DarkLines 279
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Seduced by shadows
Desired in dreams
She captured hearts
Wherever she went
Kissed by light
That caressed
In flowing strokes
Bathing her beauty
In sublime luminescence
She drew the eye
& hearts did follow

📷by Gigi Stoll

#prompt kissed by light / seduced by shadows

#Madverse
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Stuck in a moment
Locked in place
No way forward
No way back
The here and now
All that I know
I am at a standstill
Nowhere to go
Is this my fate?
No future before me
All that I am
Or ever can be

#VerseAngel 183
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In gentle waves
And shades of blue
Shall I laze in the sun
And dream of you

In the sweet infinity
Of the heavens above
Do I see our future
Veiled in a haze of love

#dimpleverse
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Draped in mourning
The Black Widow comes
With gut churning terror
Sweet scent of fear
You are my prey
And I am near
Don’t try to run
There’s no where to go
The Widow will have you
In all good time
For now you can scream
And then you’ll be mine

#RavensVeil
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Just once
Well maybe twice
I’ll think of you
Whisper your name
Remembering
Treasuring
Within my mind’s eye
There you’ll be
Captured forever
Wild and free

#FIERYVERSE
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Secrets uncovered
& truth revealed
Through the eyes of another
We are no longer concealed

Our true natures bared
Nowhere to hide
Do we brazen it out
Or hide away out of sight?

The scars we bare
Both inside and out
Are hidden no more
Of that - there is no doubt

#WrittenRiver
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The pain - it cuts
Slicing me deep
With every memory
The demons creep

The fire and flow
Of wounds unseen
This deathly cascade
I’m trapped within

Sweet Absolution
It cannot be mine
Doomed to this fate
Forever and all time

(Image art credit:Casey Wheldon)

#PoemTrail 274
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Slipping away
Seconds to minutes
Gone too soon
In a relentless flow
That does not cease
Cannot be recalled
Except in memories
Treasured and precious
Sweet everlasting
Moments of eternity

#photo by J.V. Sommers
#MadVerse
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Playful breezes dance in DELICIOUS abandon
UNVEILING teasing glimpses of ivory and cream
To the DESIRING slumbrous gaze of heavenly gods

#DimpleVerse

#art by Lee Zimmerman
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Golden streaks gild the skies in luminescence
A wild dawn awakens with brilliant grandeur
And the primitive peace does slumber yet
While hummingbirds dance in flight
Through meadows sweet and wildflowers beautiful

(Image art:”Tooth and Claw” by Martin Wittfooth)

#poemtrail 275