Michael Sender Poet Quatrain

The Clockhouse At Halloween

The Clockhouse's A. E. Housman Suite at Halloween

Alfred Edward Housman's apparition
Recites "A quieter place than Clun(ton)
Where doomsday may thunder and lighten"*
A E Housman's ghost does frighten

In the Arvon Clockhouse Retreat
Downstairs, stays a lass with time to write
Upstairs, stays a poet in the A E Housman Suite
Housman's ghost is an awesome sight

Ghostly pacing, floorboards creak mysteriously
The lass disturbed in the night
Hearing strange noises clairvoyantly
Seeks answers in the daylight

Is it a Halloween trick or a treat?

* Poem 50 (L) from A E Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"

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Patricia Cresswell November 19, 2017 at 1:28 PM I can think of nothing scarier than a ghostly poet, most of us dwell in between any way. Well done!