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Your Ghost Came Calling
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Your Ghost Came Calling |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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the day is dark and overcast gloomy is the word I sit here contemplating what to do the volume on the radio is turned down low soft progressive jazz, eh . . . do they still call it progressive jazz they did in my day Getz and Miles and the rest for awhile I tried to nap on the sofa dreams kept waking me up heard you singing a song I could never place when I awoke I realized why it was rain peppering my window I’m sitting here now watching as a ferocious wind is accompanying it through all the dark and the gloom I whispered please sit beside me and she did a lovely ghost of her snuggled close for I knew she was far away she couldn’t be here her breath smelled of a blood-red rose and she wet my face with her kisses and then she just vanished because she was a ghost after all the rain keeps falling but for a little while she was here spreading her sunshine as only her beautiful ghost can ©March 14, 2015 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
angels was already taken so they called them memories.. their always there, lingering soft nice here my friend  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you a lot, Richy, I appreciate your nice comments.  ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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Vincent Member
since 2007-02-03
Posts 52 |
what a soft gentle write Jerry, and I think Richy is right. always there. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you, Vincent, very much for your read and comment. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
I do believe your tender writes are giving your darker writes a run for their money. Hard to compete with this one my friend! ~L |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
enjoyed this romantic rendezvous real or imagined with rain in the background |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you Lori, I am finding that I enjoy the tender writes. They reach parts of me that has lain dormant far too long. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Many thanks Emma, I am very happy you enjoyed my "ghostly" poem. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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