CAMELOT FANTASIES

They do not know
They cannot see
Beneath this mask
What there is of me

Tis my own
My secret to keep
A master of disguise
In shadows I creep

#VerseAngel 231
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My fate hung
Like a dagger drawn
Not quite in balance
Ready to fall

I stared and stared
But I could not run
My life stretched away
In unspooling frames

Tattered and frayed
With each passing day
My sanity drifting
Untethered
Unto the edge of doom

#QuillVerse 83
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Beneath gentleness
Seething desires swirl
My tormented senses
Saturated beyond hope
Lure me into sexual addiction
Where grinding lust
And relentless ripples
Drench carnal addiction
From head to toe

#CarnalVerse 194
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Quiet solitude enshrouds a world weary heart
Singed by the cool flames of a wrathful land
Where hungry eyes follow your every step
And cynical smiles conceal envious desires
Hidden from view shall I here rest awhile
Perplexed by the lull in life’s furious storm

#BardBits 164
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A family divided cannot thrive
Within our veins does not the same blood run
Winner Takes All was the motto you cried
The night you watched everything burn and die
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Once standing strong now no one to trust

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#MadVerse
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The reckoning shall come
In steel meshed fury
Supernova herald way on high
Shall light the way across the sky
In vain shall once trophy hunters flee
This mad world where demons run free
With glass eyed calculating stares
You’re now dead & no one cares

#BardBits 165
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Captured pieces of a mackerel sky
Remind me of dreams I had to fly
Pieces of oblivion when I was a child
Of a time when wishes could run wild
“You’ll figure it out” the adults would say
But I’m still waiting and it’s just another day

#PoemTrail 329

(📷Platon Yurich)
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Liquid eyes that follow me everywhere
I know tis you in the depths of night
A burnished and bronzed luminous presence
My guardian protector who holds me dear
As long as you’re with me I’ll know no fear

Prompt 328 #DarkLines
 (📷Yoann Kuszpa)
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Thieves and gold
What are we to do?
Always together
Buddies
Through and through
Craving treasure
Hidden canyon deep
Beneath sleeping dragons
There to seek
Youth long stolen
But you’ll never age
Your fate is written
And you’ll die in a cage

#BardBits 167
📷JMB
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Night garbed messengers
Flying to and fro
Never ravens
Always crows

Too wise to be mastered?
Too mocking in silence?
Oftimes I wonder
If they’re the tyrant

While crows do murder
Ravens so conspire
Is that the reason?
Or something more dire?

329 #DarkLines
(📷Mathilda le Lapin)
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Betwixt words
Within the margins
Spilling across a page
Flow soul deep emotions
Tumbling in profusion
From 1 line 2 the next
2 cascade in delicious metre
Blank verse 2 devilish prose
Rhyming stanzas 2 plain speech
Can anything be finer
Than Shakespeare we teach

#BlackDahliaProse
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Venomous whispers slide with sibilant ease
Stirring his fearful thoughts to wicked life
Afore Medusa’s stone gaze condemns him to death
Let her crown of snakes be sliced from her brow
To lie writhing upon the poisoned decay of ground

#BardBits  170

📷JMB
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So far I have come
Yet still farther must I go
Beyond the point of no return
Where memories no longer sting
And I can breathe once more
Without the loneliness it brings

#VerseAngel
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A gypsy heart follows no path
By the wind is she blown
Dreams dancing wildly in her eyes
Hope alight lingers within her breast
For a brighter tomorrow
She’s goes her own way
While some never break the chains of life
She’s a free spirit with music on her lips

#BardBits 171
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Magenta and Noir
Obsidian and Crimson
And so they came
In harlequin myriad shades
To the Red and Black Party
To dance the night away

#VerseAngel #game20
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From East of Eden
Unto West of Heaven
We walk the line
Seductively wrought
Sinners and saints
Heeding the call
Of carnal natures
Well concealed
In the rise and the fall
Behind the veil
A promise so sensual

image: Sensual Aesthetics

#MadVerse #AfterDark
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O how the cold north wind doth blow
Chilling the blood and freezing the soul
Escape your fate
                               Not on my watch
The Underworld awaits your presence
& Seasons of life and death come to pass
Yet bow to me & this day won’t be your last

#BardBits 172
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Drench my flesh in kisses soft
Wrap me up tight before I’m lost
Whisper my name as I breathe yours
Carnal cravings drawn to your lure
Release my spirit and watch me soar
In the flash and burn of a love so pure

1) Volodymyr Tverdokhli

#CarnalVerse 197