Simulacrum Contest- Round 1 [ POEMS]

Here are all of the poems that I received. On this round there will be two eliminations.
Though, everyone else must prepare for next round since the next picture prompt will be a bit tougher and more abstract.

Thank you for participating. Enjoy reading the poems as much as I have. :D

EDIT: I'll give the results as soon as possible.

# 1

Title: Salem

Amber shades are mere reflections
of a time long ago, hidden twixt
the iris of a mystery, such as a
lost book of shadows in a burning haystack.

She was labeled witch, but the memory
of her strength lives on, midst the flames
of devilish ignorance and mice to cheese,
the trap was set, the innocent shall succumb.

Death trapped her purity, as the marigold
faltered in the wind of transparent anger;

The sin was an explosive, which ignited
her spirit to feather fall, like a cloud of
confetti, landing upon a silent town called-

Salem

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#2

And looking backwards once
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I find her gaze lowered as a cowed beast with purpose,
and yet she whispers.
Words like raindrops on string, as snowflakes on ice.
She melts me through and I lower myself.

When I find her gaze raised the sun is there,
her eyes blaze like marbles on fire,
my own like pools of drowned out desire.

Still we're as planted trees in a long dark winter.

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#3

Microscopic Eye [Capturing The Unseen]

I watch you play in the garden of time
idling between the gaps of years.
At times, creeping
like the second hand on a watch
of a frazzled businessman,
upside down in mid-air
dangling; levitating
caught in a trap
mid-tame.

Sometimes, a hermit
praying like the mute sands
in a coiled hourglass.
The more sand,
the more potent
its mysticism will last.

Foreboding like a silhouette of a woman,
sashaying behind every curtains and closed doors,
one that has escaped...
my grasps,

the tiniest of dust.

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#4

Window on a Stark Landscape

You have the world before you
with the rich golden haze of fortune;
imagined buildings glow,
arrayed like gold bullion in your gaze.

Ticker tape machine and oil rig -
iconic portrayals of the means
for total control of your destiny,
as stuff that forms your dreams.

Even your hair is gilded like straw
from Rumpelstiltskin's magic spinner.
Standing here with you I am
enamored of this wondrous vision.

Yet you endeavor on a lonely plane
not seeing the one who would remain
beside you sharing in your aspiration:
I abide in the blind spot of your eye

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#5

Black and Amber

You share the amber of fields of barely
with a glance of your eyes, alluring as
the ring on the finger of a hobbit
who is hiding in a field of maize.
I was something I could never see in them.

Like electricity, hot and white-golden,
your abstraction did a little to belittle
the industrial space surrounding you -
the attention of the industrial worker in me
became a little less industrious.

But the island in your iris,
the nothing of a sugar ring doughnut,
was opaque as the one-way mirror
of an interrogation chamber.
It was the blackest of black holes to me

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# 6 Ashe

Eyes caught ablaze like inferno/
gaze beheld by flames waltzing by seaside,/
smoke billowing as people pass up/
the joys of relaxation for the sake of appearance./
Smooth rocks rolling, soft waves/
soothing small talk chatter among fresh faces./

I caught your gaze;/
but you looked away,/
I'd say I frightened you like forbidden fruit/
or a serpent sneaking ever closer/
until I could whisper in your ear./
Devilish as fleeting thoughts are apt to be,/
who's to say that you're wrong?/

Eyes ablaze like inferno/
I caught you walking away today./
What you've never known has caught /
on fire, and off the tip of my tongue/
rolls a bead of salt that I held for you/
from our first meeting by seaside.

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#7 Host

Looking into
an amazing abyss,
all eyes dazzle me some,
like an explosion of thoughts.
Though the Golden Ones
are just a mirage,
a glimpse; seeing past,
present and future,
as a Singularity,
like Eye Am.
Now I wander about
like the other one,
with views not seen,
undiscovered by most.

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#8

"Between the Blinks of Instants "

Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes , eyes
I just see your eyes, nothing else
Eyes are your reminiscence
The light
The hallo
The peek of seconds
peering into everlasting.
Beyond time,
where
there is no end and beginning,
the clear pond
of all the chandeliers.
I forever flame and plead in that temple,
Like fire that assembles all the flammables
I always am remembered in the grace of that glance
Extinction
is an instant of tear
from your eyes,
a blink of existence
between the instants of extinction.

Great poems :P

1, 3 and 4 are the ones that caught my attention
the most, but good writes from other poets as well.

Great stuff here. Can't wait to read the comments.

Amazing poems! It's so neat reading this :]

I feel sorry for Luce, lol, nice poems!

Haha.. :-s

I feel sorry for myself too. lol

Those are great poems.

I agree

Number 3 FTW!

Sorry about the wait, I'll post the results no later than December 23, at 3 pm PnQ time.