An Amiable Apparition
In the old city of St. John's,
in the older neighborhoods,
there are haunted houses...
residences with revenants...
apartments with apparitions...
even schools with spectres;
and there is one edifice with an eidolon
that I know well:
a softhearted shadow
very benevolent,
not at all maleficent.
It is supposedly the ghost of a child
who passed many years before;
a tale from days of yore
not well-known in
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Categories:
apparition, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Vessel pt 1 - A Blighted Vale I
The Vessel pt. 1 - A Blighted Vale (pt 1/2)
A solitary figure off the beaten path,
The air a palpable gloom
Be it mortal or shade of someone passed,
No longer in want of a tomb
Betwixt a shuffling gait and steady pace,
A sole impression leaves foliage displaced
This mark being the only telltale trace
It may be of flesh and
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Categories:
apparition, corruption, dark, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
An Apparition That Will Not Visit
Every night
I sat up waiting
and waiting
for you to
sweep me up
from off my feet
instead you
would always
vanish away
into the shadows
from which you came from
without a trace
never leaving behind
your footprints
or a letter written to me
telling me
that you were here
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Categories:
apparition, halloween, heartbreak, heartbroken, romance,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Apparition
When I first saw you, you were standing
beautifully in a river of moonlight.
You had appeared as if from out of nowhere.
Lonesome you seemed in the black of night.
But you were different, dressed all in white
and I was someone longing for a view -
the view of someone who’d be there for me
if it chanced to be
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Categories:
apparition, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Feminism
The pride of the world,
have we stepped on with great hatred.
The whispers of the words,
have they buried in their various tunnels.
We no longer recognize their garment,
stabbing them greatly while they lament.
They hope to beautify on earth their fulfillment,
Yet they are severed greatly with blandishment.
Women, the salt of the earth.
This have we seen,
yet we see
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Categories:
apparition, bullying, discrimination, strength, violence,
Form: Rhyme
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently some artist's hidden haven, lost in time.
Passing through this rickety door to dilapidation -
sun shards were streaming through the cracks
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Categories:
apparition, america, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Blank verse
Allhallowtide
hallucinations
vague personifications ~
hallows dark dancing
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Categories:
apparition, dance, dark, emotions, halloween,
Form: Senryu
The Absent Apparition
The Absent Apparition
Weeping at the window panes, screaming through the locks
Banging upon the ship’s hull, scratching on the docks
Pounding on the headboard, rapping on the glass
Sneaking up to scare the girls, as they run to class
Noone sees his image, as he’s quick to hide away
Leaving to your imagination, what
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Categories:
apparition, halloween, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Forecast of a Dream
Forecast of a Dream
David J Walker
It was only an apparition from a
Familiar haunting dream
One that is losing its power
To scare me
concerning the future whose
forecast changes like
the weather
One that fills me with angst
for trivial sins of the past
but at least and
at long last
I am dreaming again
With new daily sin
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Categories:
apparition, dream,
Form: Rhyme
No Apparition
Was it a ghost or some apparition?
Jesus was there but in what condition.
“Now please if you would,
just give me some food.”
He ate some fish relieving suspicion.
“Why are you fearful can you not see?
I'm risen again it really is me.
To make
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Categories:
apparition, bible, gospel, jesus, religious,
Form: Limerick
My Victorian Astronomer
An absolutely truthful account... (strangely, including the contest’s mandatory ’*’)
Twas something like nineteen seventy seven
I saw a guy on a bridge gazing at heaven...
I was sat fishing, set up for the night
The night that that fella would give me a fright
A full moon aglow in an ebony sky
Permitted the sight of that very strange guy
He
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Categories:
apparition, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Apparition Approach
1.
You're obscured by maze hedges, I'm approaching
Creeping around greenery's edges, encroaching
2.
You'll know when adventure's uncovered, I'm here
Meet where destiny weds us, fate encroaching
3.
Absorb how I've worked for you, take it on board
Finally, place for tender touch encroaching
4.
No shears were used, I went the long way to find
Ideal man, no sad pretender encroaching
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Categories:
apparition, allusion, courage, cry,
Form: Ghazal
Midnight Apparition
In another day we grew up
me the forced ego
me the unchosen one
me the vagabond
and you
you, with your brown hair
you, with your purity
you, walking with a glad walk
you, swaying and smiling
having a glad smile.
you, with a triumphant air
with no hostility
I never knew you so well
as I do today
I run to you.
you open your arms
and then you
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Categories:
apparition, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Virgin Mary Apparition At Mejugorje
Between the mountains
Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus
Appeared to six
Faithful in Mejugorje
and a little child shall lead them
in this case
six of them
prayer conversion, fasting,
penance, peace
all the things that could right the world
bringing Catholics to a stronger faith
but not for only Catholics, for all believers
Catholic pilgrimage
Inspired by six little children
“and the little children
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Categories:
apparition, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
Apparition
i hear you in the silence of darkness as memories awaken
December 25, 2019
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Categories:
apparition, dark, dream,
Form: Monoku
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