Phasma Phasmatis / Dormio / (In Limbo)

 

Sleeping in a wreath of exquisite flowers 

I part my ways with the most beautiful ghost

A phantom that had been stagnant by my side

And diffused through me like a withering host. 

Finally I've created a mirage of passionate engagements

Without the false representation of a magnetic love

The paradox of being alive takes the form of flesh 

And its plethora of deceit rains from above. 

The plight of my ambitions can only be captured 

By the flash of a camera who's lens have been fractured. 

A partially designated soul will fade though transcendence

The same way my lonely apparition had slipped pass the threshold

And the mistrust given by such a vilified spirt 

Well be the same as the lies that the phantoms flesh told. 

Finally I've been given the chance to fade out indecision 

And the ghosts of my past endeavours will fall in limbo 

But no matter how much I erase the winters that transpired 

Fate will always send my phantom back through my window. 

When the clock falls through midnight I'll be heaved from my wreath

And left barren in a silk bed filled with high tides and dead leaves...

Author's Note

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Amazing poetry and video. Your poetry always make me think. I did like the music. I like to hear voices and story in music also. A outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Barbara Walker]

Enigmatic poems are not my favorite, maybe because I am simple-minded! Have you ever read a poem and known that it was deep and saying something important, you just didn't know what? Well, that's where I am with this one! I am sure there are readers that will really get this, I'm just sorry I'm not one of them!

[Peaceworker22]

Beautiful, yet confusing. The beauty of art is it doesn't have to make sense, it just is. : )

[That_Girl]

This is lovely. The rhyming is silky smooth and your vocabulary is strong and mature without reading like a textbook. Hard to accomplish. Love your work.

[Samantha Lynn]

I think this is the first poem that I have read of yours that actually rhyms. haha :D
Don't get me wrong though. I of course loved it so and I actually understood it. lol
Great work! :))

[eeoopig]

A good poem - it was interesting. I loved this one - brilliant!

[Olivia Marie]

Loved it, it was wonderful :)

[Debbie_Philly]

Wonderfully penned.... deep !! :)

[sienikeha]

great image -- last stanza.

[Pax]

you put word in a very surreal way that hides deep meaning. its really good...
i love this line:
The plight of my ambitions can only be captured
By the flash of a camera who's lens have been fractured.
in this line tells alot...i like it..