CAMELOT FANTASIES

Capricious Gods toying with hearts
Mere playthings to their mercurial whims
Did they blink an eye when I crumbled within
Watching as my love cast me down
Without a thought they turned away
Their gaze to dwell upon some other unfortunate clown

#PoemTrail 278
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Above the waves they slowly rise
Inch by inch and all is revealed
To the hot gaze of a burning sun
Or the cool serenity of a silver moon
What has been aeons in hiding
Shall once again be bared in beauty

#WrittenRiver 1484

📷The Mary Rose
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A glittering treasure
Too precious for one
Such exquisite adornment
Must be protected
Shielded from acquisitive eyes
This beauty to be concealed
& in their jealous envy
Their craving to hoard revealed

#FIERYVERSE
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Madness seeps like poison
Within my veins
It burns
It ravages
This torment consumes
A craving for more
I cannot deny
My weakness flourishes
Succumbing I fall
Deeper and deeper
Spiralling down
Light fading fast
Let me go
Please

📷 1) Graphic Design  2) Marcela Bolivar
#madVerse
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Did my soul recognise
When first we met
A kindred spirit
Or is this kismet?
With a succubus kiss
You drew me in
All consuming
Your lips spoke sin
Hypnotic confusion
My mind not my own
You took what you needed
& reaped what you sowed

photo (Anders Rokkum)

#DarkLines 288
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Screaming her madness to the air
Echoing laughter returned to her

#hangtenstories
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You me
And a dream or two
So far have we come
From all we knew

Oh how they scoffed
When first they heard
Shaking their heads
Spilling dark words

And here we are
Proving them wrong
Each day a blessing
Together we’re strong

📷Candice Zugich

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Soft apple scents suffuse the air
Sweet Summer orchards ripe for picking
A hot sun bathes the land in golden balm
While dexterous pickers dart nimbly
Swarming like bees amidst stout trunks
Gathering their bounty with greedy ability

#fieryverse
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Silently he slumbers
Majestic even then
Locked within marble
He guards forever more

(pic): Art statue at Chatsworth

#WrittenRiver 1487
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Let your inner light shine
Cast out that suffocating darkness
ADD COLOUR TO YOUR LIFE
In bejewelled glowing hues
Of startling brilliant luminescence

#DimpleVerse #23words
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Moving shadows flow in liquid silence
Chilling spectres beyond Holy grace
Such curious creatures with luminous eyes
They watch and wait with a hungry gaze
Your blinding pride shall be your swift demise

art by J. Eichas

#writtenriver #VampireWeekend
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A hungry yearning
Exposed in her eyes
She waits and wonders
Watching the moon rise

Will this be the night?
Or just another dream?
When his lips spill promises
That aren't as truthful as they seem?

Pic 1: unknown
#CarnalVerse
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Amidst ivory satin does she now rest
A spray of lilies upon her breast
What’s done is done and in the past
And so it shall read as her epitaph

©️MercurialNight
📷Dracula
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Hear my words
Heed them well
Of the future I speak
Upon portents I dwell
An advisor to the beast
Or so some do say
But they understand not
Their minds clouded gray
Look 2 the wild
For all that U would know
Those carrion feeders
The wolf & the crow
(📷Dean Souleles)
#DarkLines 291
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A hot August night filled to the brim with temptation, and bourbon and no drunken regrets

#soullayers @savage_depths
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Beneath a black velvet sky laced with stars
Lay me down gently amidst ivory satin
Seduce the mind as you tempt the flesh
Sweetly wrapped in naked aggression
As you moan your torment to the moon
In a blinding rush that’s over much too soon

#photos Jackson Carvalho

#MadVerse
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I swear I saw stars
When he kissed my lips
The whole universe
As he wrapped my close
Within his dark lashed eyes
Slumbrous yet oh so bold
The mysterious MILKY WAY
I did wondrously behold

#DimpleVerse
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Betwixt these pages
Buried deep
Lies so many secrets
So hard to keep
Each brilliant line
So well composed
Combines in chapters
Of masterful prose
An author revered
A pen of such skill
To read this a delight
Such a blessing and thrill

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Far far away
Beyond the horizon
Out of sight
Never in view

I imagine you there
In some humble dwelling
Where our souls can meet
Just we two

Our very own island
Lost beneath skies
Where none can reach
There alone do we bide

(Image credit: Oscar Keserci)

#PoemTrail 282
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NEW MOON rising in the sky
Heavenly harmony way on high
Beneath her gilded CRESCENT
Illumined in beautiful brilliance
Chaos reigns in raucous confusion

#DimpleVerse
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“I will tame you” he did arrogantly vow
“Like hell you will” the storm did growl
And so they fought until the end
Back and forth like two old friends

#WrittenRiver 1495
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Crisp green apples so ripe in the sun
Bursting with tartness upon our tongue
From forest green to orchards lime
Nature’s paintbrush in hues sublime

#WrittenRiver #GoGreenToday