Stereoscopic

Of Lies and Magic Tricks

Serendipitous

A splash of summer sun in - 

The Dead of Winter

Peek-a-boo

The Funny Side

Of Daggers and Hidden Smiles

Hidden in plain sight -

Piercing enigmatic smiles

Lie Mankind's daggers

Why aren't you laughing?

The Prestige

Of Lightning and Broken Bottles

Captured Lightning, trapped - 

with bated breath and bare hands

in a glass bottle

Message in a Bottle

The Hourglass

Of Broken Clocks and Promises

A tale of Broken Time - 

Leaving promise unfulfilled,

Spring, departs again

Cries for you and I

I think this qualifies as sufficiently Elegant and Obtuse. When all around you is hyper-real, sometimes...it's better to be misunderstood.

Toy Soldiers

Slippery Slide

Slick Coating of ice,

covering snowy sidewalks-

Nature's Skating Rink

Eventually fall down