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I made up two things,
People — or lovers’ rings.
One writes the lines,
The other paints the signs.

So let me share how they feel,
Let me present them as if they were real.

Dorothea or Niki — the dreamer in me.
Doesn’t know which she is anymore.
She’s the version I write in my poetry.
Me as someone to adore.

She speaks in stanzas, dreams in rhyme,
Wishes for a love to last past time.

And then there is Poppy Piume,
She’s a lot like my real world friend.
But in this poetic arc that isn’t her doom.
Here — we are the a story with no end.

She answers in dreams, if not in the day,
A voice I imagine when I drift away.

In my imagination there is no goodbye,
But in sad reality she doesn’t even reply.
So I write, as she paints, and I try not to cry,
And I pretend our silence is just a lullaby.
Inspired by reality, but not there anymore.
Mark Wanless Jun 8
imaginary
divine occluded secular
what's the difference
When your shadow touches mine,
that's the closest our souls ever get.

Lovers only from a distance,
lovers only in a daydream.

Our eyes play chase through the hallways,
a constant tag of exchanged looks
from you to me.

Pretend not to notice,
pretend not to care.

But I see you,
and sometimes I think you see me too.

You are the secret sigh,
the secret whisper of my heart.

Imaginary you smiles,
imaginary me believes it meant something.

I build a whole world in my head,
where you reach out,
where you choose me,
where you don't even hesitate.

But the truth is—
you don't know me.
You probably never will.

And all of this,
all of this ache,
all of this hope,
is something I made up.

So I’ll smile across the room,
catch your eye for a second,
and let the dream live a little longer.
This is a poem about a hallway crush, where you have a deep loning for a person who frankly, doesn't exist
Renn Apr 23
when i said i wanted you i never meant a relationship
it was just stationary
we’d be better off with just a friendship
but my friends are all imaginary
sometimes i see you here with me
but it’s only a hallucination
one day you’ll come back, maybe..
A whole lot of lies swimming in a pond – ducking the truth; as I
threw a rock into the water, and it unfortunately croaked, to the
misery of those frogs. I watched as a young lady was kissing to
find her Prince charming; and I still don’t know if she ever
found him, because she had a frog in her throat.

Ah nature, with its crude nature – it laughs in the wind at night,
blowing branches as you try to sleep. And when crickets decide
to mate, is it the whole world that goes quiet as those insects?
And if it’s a game of love they play, I surely hope it isn’t ironically
like cricket – making a few runs of the person running on your
mind; while giving it all you can to have a ball with them. But
they only seem to bat an eyelid.

But aren’t you all sometimes hungry for love, like the sea that
hungers to conquer more land? Let’s erode these old cliffs, of our
own peaks, to be left with the bare essentials. And would you
mistake me as someone who falls in love with one’s essentials –
saying it with my chest; to bare one’s chest? Maybe my love isn’t
as wet, to water down those starved parts of your heart.
Darling, I’m just a small pond.

But wasn’t it a pond, where the Princess had found her love?
Shattered shields; these many lowered defences;
Over the plains of a threshold over my doom
In person I’m broken down, in spirit I am laughing,
Speaking, singing; losing most of the space in time,
And the pieces of my body and mind; tasting the
Spectacular taste of defeat, in a sepulchre of a void

To my past, I am a ghost haunting it in memories –
Screaming at my younger self; but no sound is heard
Holding onto old flames of love; there lies my handful
Eating at my skin, ripping and tearing, until ash is my hold

I was born from mud, in this world made of dust –
The tears of heaven wet my dry skin into being;
The heat of the sun gave the warmth of love, and lust
Here, under this moss I placed my thumb to crush my flower
I was born a love poem with no real idea on how to love,
So, I sit quietly and wait, waiting for another loss in love
To have been in love, to find love again, is to understand
Your heart’s love; maybe there’s too much love in it
To fully understand it all at once; all too strong to hold!
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛' 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑦,
𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦,
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦,
𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛' 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑓  𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑦.  

𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒,
𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛' 𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛' 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛.
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒,
𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛' 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒.  

𝐻𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟,
𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛' 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑧𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑟'𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒,
𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛' 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟.  

𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑛',
𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑧𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛'.
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑦,
𝑖𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦.  

𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛' 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎,
𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛' 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎.
𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑐𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎,
𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑖𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑎.  

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦,
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑦,
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑡𝑦,
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦,
𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦,
𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦.  

𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦,
𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦,
𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦,
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑦,
𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛' 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑖𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑎,
𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛' 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑎.
A delusion... An imagination... I have created my never endin' reverie..
That I could only dream off..
Underneath the canopy where gentle breezes sway,
Forest elves flutter with elegance, a magical play.
Amidst green verdant foliage, they frolic and giggle,
The magical musical is fleeting, mere whispered riddle.

In a world where dreams and stories intertwine,
Tales spunned fantasy, recounted by mankind,
Elvish girls gowns with radiance aboudingly fair,
Among the trees, glittering sunlight in their hair.

Whispers of majestic charms spoken on the wind,
A beauty, a kind of rarity makes me tremble within,
Woods and animals hold a secret just out of sight,
Wistful hearts desire, a true nature's silent delight.

Moonbeams showers over their echoes of laughter,
Promises before the dawn of time converge ever after,
Forever serenity among animals where they lay,
As clever fairies mislead curious human away.

Legends of old remain a whisper of truth,
Only the pure ones, innocent hearts of youth,
Granted an entrance or visions fleeting glimpse,
Others succumbing under the mystical hijinks.
Word count 155. Fantasy of the faerie.
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