This is a delightful scramble of word play! I very much relate to the way our ghosts can bust up a perfectly good glass of wine! The title is an awesome slice of the pie you often serve with the word sounds counting as much as their meanings! *smile* (((HUGS)))
Ah, the Ouiji board.....I remember using one when I was in high school and then in college too. Great metaphor here. Wine can be poured from the ewer, but a heard can never overcome a loss...not totally. I liked this, Jacob. Lydi**
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
yes, they always worked pretty well for me, too...thank you for your insights, Lydi.
j.
"Poetry is a conjuring of spirit, of heart, of words spelled in grotesque sequence.."- harkens to Macbeth's Three Witches' "Bubble, bubble,toil and trouble" and is a profoundly moving and haunting line. Imagery and wordage slays-"the blue hue of the rhapsody remains an unfulfilled ghost of past acquaintance"- sadly the planchette, and the mystery woman, said no....Excellent work my friend, as always!
The spirits will fool you, drunken your mind--make you think you're headed for answers, not profound confusion.
No matter how much we wish it were not so, lost love (or lost love opportunities) almost always remains lost; ain't no otherworldly tricks gonna make it otherwise.
But, of course, you've said all this, and more, with words most elegant.
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
thank you for your kind words, and your insights, Jimmy...yes, tricks just won't do it.
read morethank you for your kind words, and your insights, Jimmy...yes, tricks just won't do it.
Wow, sometimes treasured memories can easily transform themselves into nightmares that leave us saddened in Ground-Hog-Day-like re-visitations of those far better times when that special love was not yet lost to sands of time that never erode the best of those memories away, but instead embed them deeper and deeper into our hearts with each passing day ... Beautifully done ... I am sorry to say that your sadness and regret bleeds through each and every word of every line of this poem that speaks to me as something I have, personally, experienced ...
Marv
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
thank you for relating, and your kind words, Marv.
j.
Originally from Bronx, NY, I live in Carbondale, Illinois...teach English at a community college and have been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. I am here to read for inspiration from other po.. more..