Ghosts
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Ghosts
Each Other’s Ghosts
The house is built of man-carved stone;
Four hundred year or more it stands,
Cheating Time’s destroying hand,
Atop Alaigne’s watchful hill.
Its memories dwell within its walls:
Joy, loss, sadness, pain;
People’s lives may live again,
For those who know to see
And one who loved it keeps her place
Beside a hearthstone long effaced.
She sits, she knits, quiet, unmoved
Aware, almost, of changes there.
She dares to watch and knows to see
The future time - she senses me.
I too sense, and know she’s there:
Each other’s ghosts, this place we share.
© David Monks 17 May 2009
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The house is built of man-carved stone;
Four hundred year or more it stands,
Cheating Time’s destroying hand,
Atop Alaigne’s watchful hill.
Its memories dwell within its walls:
Joy, loss, sadness, pain;
People’s lives may live again,
For those who know to see
And one who loved it keeps her place
Beside a hearthstone long effaced.
She sits, she knits, quiet, unmoved
Aware, almost, of changes there.
She dares to watch and knows to see
The future time - she senses me.
I too sense, and know she’s there:
Each other’s ghosts, this place we share.
© David Monks 17 May 2009
My first post...
- heinzs
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Re: Ghosts
I like this. On some level the ghosts of the living and those of the past seem to be able to communicate.
An' it harm none, do what ye will. Blessed Be.
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My Jesus hung out with thieves and sluts and liars, which Jesus do you worship?
---Todd Agnew
Perfection is my enemy
Procrastination is his cohort
Persistence is my sword
---Gordy
My Jesus hung out with thieves and sluts and liars, which Jesus do you worship?
---Todd Agnew
Perfection is my enemy
Procrastination is his cohort
Persistence is my sword
---Gordy
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Re: Ghosts
Has the ring of truth. Some are sensitive enough to tune in many are not
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Re: Ghosts
I loved this one Ivor. Just eerie enough to be slightly macabre.
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Re: Ghosts
Thank you.
I appreciate your comment on 'Ghosts'
I am encouraged to launch another poem, and hope it pleases.
David.
I appreciate your comment on 'Ghosts'
I am encouraged to launch another poem, and hope it pleases.
David.
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An' it harm none, do what ye will. Blessed Be.
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Re: Ghosts
Wow.
Hard to figure out how to write how much this evokes in me.
Significance.
Life. Aging. Death.
Past. Present. Future.
Layers of time and space and generations.
And rocking chairs...in my image the knitter by the hearth sits in a rocking chair.
The images painted are detailed, yet simple.
Thanks for bumping this.
Hard to figure out how to write how much this evokes in me.
Significance.
Life. Aging. Death.
Past. Present. Future.
Layers of time and space and generations.
And rocking chairs...in my image the knitter by the hearth sits in a rocking chair.
The images painted are detailed, yet simple.
Thanks for bumping this.
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reminds one of the past and of the memories once shared...
I did enjoy
I did enjoy
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