poem-ghosts

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 4:02 pm
Tags: apostrophe, change, future, ghosts, loss, memory, metaphor, past, poem, poetry, time

Of course ghosts are real

Haven’t you felt them

swirling about you

like leaves in the wind?

Memories that haunt

spinning through your head

with joys and sorrows

that have no place in

tomorrow.

dancingpalmtrees Says:
October 13, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Your poem popped up as I’ve been watching the Haunted series pretty much all day. Of course our internal ghosts and demons are perhaps more scary than the external ones.

Haunted Places in Canada

Creepy Canada

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  October 13, 2014 at 4:11 pm
  Boo!
  
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http://theenglishprofessoratlarge.com Says:
October 13, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Oh, yes, they are real in your lovely poem.

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  October 13, 2014 at 4:11 pm
  Thank you
  
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Dawn Virnig Says:
October 13, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Beautiful! Absolutely LOVE this simile: “Haven’t you felt them swirling about you like leaves in the wind?” Perfect 🙂

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  October 13, 2014 at 6:09 pm
  Thanks Dawn
  
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SueM Says:
October 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Yes, they are real and I like to chase them away like the fall breeze that’s blowing the dried up leaves from our yard. 😉

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  October 13, 2014 at 7:48 pm
  You don’t welcome them?
  
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Leroy Says:
October 14, 2014 at 6:09 am
I feel them dancing upon my shadows, it’s such a joy to hear!

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