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A bittersweet poem
Devoid of any answers
Twiddling of thumbs
Nails bitten and picked
Confusion in the shrill
Shattered shards of life
Scarcely satisfaction
Everlasting distraction
A softly weeping halo
Surprised not to be dead
Dreadfully distraught
This is more than just
This is more than just bittersweet, although the title is so very appropriate. This poem is haunted---by emotions both experienced and unexperienced; and one of the most succint summaries of what a ghost represents, poetically, is presented in the last two lines. I have been reading ghost stories since about 1966 (yes, I am ancient), and I have never read a literary definition of a ghost, or a haunting, as precise and moving as those last two lines. And, I am very sure, I will remember those lines any time in the future that I read a ghost story. This poem is really, really brilliant!
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