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Paper Ghost
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augustsky Senior Member Posts 828 midwest US 
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Paper Ghost~ A paper ghost wanders here, Unfinished endings with naive expectations Hide themselves in rounded boxes Neatly stacked as if they were old fashioned Hat-boxes waiting for Sunday morning, a Place to conceal week day sins. A squatter walks here, Longing, trails the residual pacing, Dirty windowpanes hold those hypnotic Stares of vigil. Sign in the yard says 'all offers considered'. Come own this place of smoothed over scars, With the paper ghost..who's copyrighted loneliness. Perhaps the sounds of life & love will vanquish the Spector to the Wind, Where any haunted heart can travel Upon its gusty caravan, Roaming till nothing but ashen Metaphor remain. ©Augustsky |
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soul drifter Senior Member
since 2004-09-08
Posts 711Colorado |
“Where any haunted heart can travel Upon its gusty caravan, Roaming till nothing but ashen Metaphor remain.“ You’re killing me, august. Struck dead in awe. Phenomenal. |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Sky...I might have to think on this mysterious rendering from you. Right now all I can think of is the ghost of unfinished poems pacing and waiting for their ending to be written. I have a folder in my computer full of unfinished poems waiting for an ending. Enjoyed very much...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Love this. I have unfinished poems everywhere haunting me to finish them. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I've always considered my poetry a graveyard. I am glad to see others share in the assessment to some extent. "Perhaps the sounds of life & love will vanquish the Spector to the Wind," Houses full of life and love are definitely harder to haunt. Naive expectations or not. Michael |
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augustsky Senior Member Posts 828 midwest US |
Smiles@Souls, Thank you, you do my heart good. Thanks to you all..Souls, Paul, Ida, & Michael.. All of you got the gist of what I was saying here..which was many things, how we..as writers can be haunted by our unfinshed work, & I believe sometimes the thoughts & emotions we put into our writes can be so strong they'll linger on once we've past.  Sky~ |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
This one definitely catches somewhere inside. I rarely write on paper now, but I do have a lot of unfinished things in my Notes app. When I go I want all of my paper stuff destroyed. If I stop in the middle of something I can never catch the same mood to finish it. Enjoyed. "I know this love will tear me to pieces |
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