Phantom Images
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Sonnet
Fourteen lines 10 syllables per line with a typical... abab cdcd efef gg rhyming scheme.
To me, ghosts can't be spirits of the dead,
though something weird seems to be occurring.
For I believe our eyes can be mislead
by phantom images that keep recurring.
A departed soul would not hang about
after leaving a body that is dead.
It would undoubtedly figure things out
and instantaneously move ahead.
Ghost are oft-seen engaged in some routine,
as if trapped in a repetitive act.
Neither alive nor dead, but in-between,
a presumption repeated as a fact.
If ghosts are spirits, why do they have clothes,
I'm to believe clothes have souls, I suppose?
(Sonnet)
1/20/2021
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2021
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