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Best Ghostlike Poems

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Premium Member Ghostlike
"Ghostlike"



Through dreams
I visit you ghostlike
in disguised ways I speak 
silent thoughts to you
I breathe them lifelike
into your dreamlike
skies 

alive you have travelled
astral in my mind
I...

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Categories: ghostlike, i am, light, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 'separation' - the Art of Edvard Munch
When love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ghostlike, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member In Awe of the Wind
You whine and whistle, ghostlike, when you round
		the corner of my cottage in the cove.
		You sweetly soothe or taunt and terrify.
		No one on Earth dictates...

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Categories: ghostlike, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
All Hallow's Moon
Oh souls that brave All Hallow's moon
whose shadowed face would bid us swoon.
We stare upon your ghostly veil
a-flight on twilight's empty trail.

And yet, we delve...

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Categories: ghostlike, dark, evil, fear,
Form: Quatrain
The Four Horsemen
I saw the Four Horsemen -
the famous apocalypse guys.
They rode silently past neatly folded laundry,

They approached me in silence,
their breathe a rye and meadow wind.
Each...

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Categories: ghostlike, allegory, death, fantasy, future,
Form: Free verse



Invaded By the Tribe
Invaded by the tribe

The old station wagon
Pulls to halt in my driveway.
The five children fall out 
of its rusted doors 
shouting and laughing.
She turns off...

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© Jude Kyrie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ghostlike, beautiful, life, love, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I know crazy
It aches

Insanity – it is rich with light,
Ever lusher with shadows,
Dimly faded feelings, whispers
Welcoming the wars that come
To those who listen… it’s voice…

I know crazy

Crazy...

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Categories: ghostlike, anxiety, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Sonnets Inspired By My Reigning Ex
            Warmly dedicated to SMJ

      Three Sonnets Inspired by...

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Categories: ghostlike, girlfriend,
Form: Sonnet
Reductio
Beakers ready, gentlemen,
titration calibrated to the critical degree;
unveil the poetry distilled
until reagents strike at all the barriers
that we erect in love, in agony,
in little niches,...

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Categories: ghostlike, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Two Dark Emotions
The one that has not succeeded in life knows
that these two dark emotions: fear and pity
are on the same scale of equality;
he feels its lows...

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Categories: ghostlike, change, courage, emotions, faith,
Form: Rhyme
No Vacancies
And the cemetery is sculpted by freshly lain plots 		
Anticipating a frame to explain the gravely residents		
To offer considerable homage with venerate thoughts		
Of a journey...

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Categories: ghostlike, death, grave, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Fragments From the Garden Isle
A glimpse in time
I wander your rugged roads
Ignited by a glowing future
Digging into my own mind
So that the surgeon might fix himself
Sullied in a swinging...

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Categories: ghostlike, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Echoes
Icicles hang on the edges
Silence creeping into the conversation
Revealing the boredom of this skirt
Tendrils of frozen water suspended
On hearts, hopes and dreams

Moonlight flickers on the...

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Categories: ghostlike, appreciation, blessing, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
Midnight On the Clock
Midnight on the Clock

Midnight gray blocks out the stars
in racing steams of flowing clouds.
Moon light hides behind windy puffs
	of smoky filtered white.
October nights are cooled...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ghostlike, dark, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Misty Lake
In the gray dawn, ghostlike,
A mist rises over the lake
Like a floating whisper.
My shorts and tee shirt 
Are damp and clammy
From hanging on the bedpost
Near...

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Categories: ghostlike, allusion, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse

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