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Monday, January 17, 2011

The stories ghosts tell

Phantasmagoric,
today he hovers
caught up by the taught
shadows, but there was
a rhyme ... He’ll tell you
when his sought smile stayed
to weight the night scape.

6 comments:

Lisa Ursu said...

I love this!

manik sharma said...

francis,
hellooo.."taught shadows" is a dark and honest thing to say...either we are helpless or we don't know how to help ourselves...how many times do u look ur shadow and try to see how much of you has changed....and maybe the shadow does the same.....but i guess we are better of not knowing....

Unknown said...

ignorance is bliss, so stay with the '' taught shadows''

Anonymous said...

lovely.

Anonymous said...

welcome sharing your poems with our poetry potluck today..

you can link in 1 to 3 old poems or poems unrelated to our theme as first time participant, have fun.

you got talent, keep it up.

Francis Scudellari said...

@Liza Thanks so much.

@Manik Thinking of shadows in the Jungian sense, it's an interesting question whether that darker side of our nature is learned or inherited. Maybe it's both. If we can teach our conscious self, why not the unconscious?

@Smita I think the goal is to unteach those shadows :).

@JP Thanks again for the visit. I'll get around to the potluck one of these days...