This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2014-09-19 17:27:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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A Ghost Tale

There is a solitude in these lines that the wind cannot break,  that the ice cannot down. It is rarely broken by men, or women, even children. It is like the ghost of Hamlet’s father; you engage it in  dialogue, this wretched wraith  invisible to all other eyes  in the chamber.  The only ones who break it, the rare ones, they are men, women, or rather were, those who spoke with the wraith,  too. And you hear in the symphony  of their silence, in the vast alterations of sound coming from the human instrument The walking of a Spirit that puts flesh on where there isn’t even bone. You understand how God became incarnate, and how this singular legion, screaming in a lone man, could really be called out,  to hurl itself into the sea. And you believe again, and laugh, as if the slow cost of your death were paid, as if it all, life with all of it,  were free.  

Copyright © September 2014 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: DeniMari Z. On Date: 2014-09-25 18:50:53
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Damn you're good - Another fantastic poem that holds this readers attention from first word to the last - There isn't anything wrong with this poem - I'm sitting here with chills not from just the darkness in it - but for the pure sentiments that I relate to in this piece. Life is an oddity - too complex for most - so true we laugh as if living in the world was a casual walk in the park - beautiful poem, Deni


This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2014-09-20 11:29:58
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Beautiful. I am not sure who the ghost is but the poem leads me to think of a muse. The one all poets reach for when trying to write something new, something never before heard. The imagery is haunting, and the last stanza in pure magic.
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