CAMELOT FANTASIES

These once hallowed halls
Blackened with deceit
Contorted lies that twist & bend
Such foul poison does cruelly seep
Sealed forever behind locked doors
Chain of serpents and mortice of blood
Let not the demons escape
Keep us safe from the foul flood

 🎨Eddie Howell
#darklines 319
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Breathe my name
I shall come
At your command
Without any shame

Colour my world
In passion’s shades
Let them blaze
Let them shine
For I am yours
& U R mine

Stoke the flame
Watch it burn
Consuming desire
For you
I yearn

#carnalverse 188
#image
2) Dani Olivier
3) Jackson Carvalho
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Beginning again
No looking back
Without regret
Starting today
A brand new me
Facing the future
New dawning phase
Always moving forward
Reborn with hope
Shedding my chrysalis
At last taking  flight

#VerseAngel 220
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Nestled in down sweetly soft
Delicate as newly spun sugar
She watches with curious eyes
Playing PEEKABOO while in disguise

(Image credit: Unknown)

#poemtrail 320
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Sick with years too many
Her bloom long past
A faded rose of yesterday
Sad to remember what is now gone
In those heady youthful days long past
That now hang heavy with lonely time
Scattered memories within her mind

 #QuillVerse
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A secret dream
Hiding in hope
Safe in my heart
Know one need know
Fly me to heaven
Where wild birds soar
Tear me from seclusion
This cruel derelict phase
That shackles and binds
I need no more
In a world consumed
By meals of envy
Please let me go
Set my spirit free

#BardBits 136
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Silent river of my dreams
Forever flowing yet unseen
A drifter borne on quiet waters
Floating by without a care
One day he may come ashore
But not today
                         Maybe nevermore

#PoemTrail 321

(🎨Stephen Darlington)
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She is the the flame
Burning so bright
A burning crescendo
On a glorious night

Gallant and brave
She welcomes him home
From a world strikingly brutal
No more shall he roam

Here in the forest
Silent and grand
Shall he forever bide
Evermore make his stand

#BardBits 137

🎨JMB
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When reality rushes in
Sanity makes a quick exit
Denial takes up residence
Making changes without asking

#VerseAngel
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Come down
Come down
Follow the trail
Of cast away souls
Abandoned minds
Hearts long decayed
Shrivelled and blind
This haunted forest
Full to the brim
With ghouls and wraiths
Seeming bleak and grim

Prompt 320 #DarkLines

🎨Syl (weissglut/devart)
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Outside my window
Always looking in
Stands a large weeping willow
Fronds blowing in the wind

She’s been there all my life
Casting shadows on my wall
A quiet sentinel watching
As tears of rain gently fall

#BecomingFragile
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Drifting clouds float on by
While far below I gaze on high
Lost in dreams of what may be
One sunny day when I am free
Of mortal shackles cruel and cold
Trapped in a nightmare forest
Wracked in fear and far too old

#DimpleVerse
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As shadows walk
Across the walls
Flames burn bright
Thru the night
& yet no warmth
To quell the chill
He stalks me now
Still

@Banquozghost
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Ubiquitous rumours spread like poison
Seeping in hollows betwixt the cracks
Where shadows slither and skepticism rules
While craven men with haunted eyes
Hide in folds and gaze with envy
Desiring to release the darkness
And take their place at Lucifer’s knee

#BardBits 138
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In days gone by when time was young
Celtic musings wove legends into song
Of mysterious creatures beyond our ken
Selkies and naiads living wild and free
At the edge of a world
                                Where the land meets the sea

#PoemTrail 322

(🎨James Browne)
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Bind me closer than a heart beat
Swear in blood that you are mine
That none may ever come between
This desire that often seems divine

#image
1) AXD Studios
2) Sera Viel
3) Garth Knight

#CarnalVerse 189
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Steeped in darkness
The echoes fall
Scattered voices
Heard in the air
Of who once was
That lived and loved here
Years slowly pass
Yet still they remain
Ghoulish spectres
Shattered and in pain

321 #DarkLines

(🎨Mads Schmidt Rasmussen)
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You've come so far
Through fire and flood
No more an endangered species
Survival is in your blood
That avalanche of inner strength
You never knew you had
Is alive and well and growing stronger
From day to day and even longer

#BardBits  142
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In the spaces between
Now and forever
We kneel and pray
Holy silence permeates
The very air we breathe
Heavy on our hearts
Weigh the sins of man
This life we choose
Without remorse
Our destiny laid clear
We chart our only course

#creativecoven
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Lost among the billowing crowds
Strangers passing without touching
Lucid memories clamouring within
Echoing footsteps leading me on
Yet no one sees the wandering soul
Too scared to look in case it is tyem

#dimpleverse
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Twists and turns
Was I ever this agile?
Futile blind alleys
Where was I looking?
This endless rat race
Will it never end?
Life’s cruel labyrinth
Beyond the crossroads
Around the bend

#VerseAngel 224
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Master of Shadows
I call to thee
In the cry of a child
Wild howl of a wolf
Hear my voice
And know it is me
Til the end of time
When no words remain
Here shall I be waiting
In endless longing
A whisper of mystery still
Patient to the end

#MadVerse

🎨1) Eris Janek  2) D. Keine
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