Sunday, November 6, 2011

MAGPIE/ Prompt #90

                                                        Photo/ Tess Kincaid

FOR THIS WEEK'S Magpie Tales, Tess has presented us with this image...


THIS PLACE

I sleep a lot
in this limbo,
rise in ectoplasmic splendor,
at this place
of crowded gravestones.

I restrain myself
from frightening
a grieving mourner,
who weeps over
newly turned soil.

But mischief pulls me
to drape myself as smoke
across a granite memorial,
to form a cloudy
question mark.

With memory and yearning gone,
other wraiths, by habit,
rise with the moon,
to float on winter's air.

I stir, as if from a dream,
to wonder
what I'm doing here.


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21 comments:

  1. philNovember 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM

    An eerie real fiction poem. Wunnerful.

    ~p

    8^)

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  2. LynNovember 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    Hi phil-
    Good word, there...thank you so much!!

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  3. Isabel DoyleNovember 7, 2011 at 1:34 AM

    A slippery customer - love the black smoke question mark!

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  4. BerowneNovember 7, 2011 at 6:00 AM

    What an imaginative take on this week's prompt -- congrats.

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  5. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 7:19 AM

    Hi Isabel-
    Thanks..the invisible have a voice!!

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  6. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 7:22 AM

    Hi Berowne-
    Thank you..this plot needed thickening...!

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  7. MargaretNovember 7, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    I stir, as if from a dream,
    to wonder
    what I'm doing here.


    Ha! I wonder how many "ghosts" wonder that very same thing!

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  8. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 9:04 AM

    Hi Margaret-
    More than 50% wonder..the rest???
    Thanks for your comment!!

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  9. Brian MillerNovember 7, 2011 at 11:14 AM

    nice...i might be temted to play a bit in that afterlife...and the wondering at why you are here is a fitting question as well for one in this situation..

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  10. MaggieNovember 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    "More than 50% wonder." : )

    Poor ghosty. Made me sad.

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  11. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    Hi thingy-
    Thank you for the lovely comment(ghosty says thanks, too).

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  12. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 5:20 PM

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  13. LynNovember 7, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    Hi Brian-
    Definitely play in the afterlife! Celebrate...and thanks for your comment!

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  14. HelenNovember 7, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    Absolutely ... one of my favorites this week.

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  15. IntelliblogNovember 8, 2011 at 3:43 AM

    Very atmospheric and beautifully written!

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  16. LynNovember 8, 2011 at 6:41 AM

    Hi Helen-
    Wow..that is just great...thank you so much!!

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  17. LynNovember 8, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    Hi Nicholas V.-
    Really appreciate your comment..thanks!

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  18. hyperCRYPTICalNovember 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    A clever enjoyable write.

    Anna :o]

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  19. Carrie Van HornNovember 10, 2011 at 7:37 AM

    Wow Lyn this is so captivatingly written....beautiful! :-)

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  20. LynNovember 10, 2011 at 7:55 AM

    Hi HyperCRYPTICal-
    Thank you, Anna, I appreciate your comment...

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  21. LynNovember 10, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    Hi Carrie-
    What a lovely thing to say...thank you!!

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