Inky ghost swells

They're just ghosts, yet

      the reason to carry on

  within misty haunted spaces,

inky swell's gut wrenching screams

      gushing in emotion's notions

blotting memories' rhyme

  rose red's unheard dispersion 

hung in untimely compulsion

  bloating infraction's heady chimes 

quarter past forget-me-knots

   breathes through starry skies,

      bleeding 'tween scar tissue

slipped a noose in honor

   of dynasty's regal baptism

     alleged devotional prayers

still wallowing in disbelief,

   revelation's in chapter and verse

of righteous indignation's denial

  judgement of kingdom come's

        concluded restitution,

dancing amidst horizons's

         spiritually cursed compensation 

Author's Note

Reviews

[s y e]

Ahhh Mama F, it's poetry likes that makes everything all the worthwhile, to sit down, after a hard day(s) and read you makes my days so much brighter. I just hate when I can't/don't read you, makes me feel like I am missing something.

This, for me, hit the jackpot. xoxo

[Frieda P]

Doing the happy dance to your review noodlebumble, grazie mille sweetie. xo

[Butch Decatoria]

Poetry is god when he is nostalgic for man.

[kublakhan27]

I can see you've already been busy today Mrs.R...it blows my mind when I come on here in the morning and see something like this...I'll never know how such brilliance gets spawned at such an early hour, and even if it wasn't written between last night and this morning, it's still a shock to the system to get hit with this kind of brilliance first thing in the morning...carrying on is the hardest thing in the world to do when the whole world feels like a misty haunted space...I could take every line and offer some kind of insight on it as to why it's so good, or why I related to it, or both...I'm a quiet person, but every inky swell that comes from me is a scream...from your standpoint, this is familiar territory, though it always saddens me when I see that you've visited there...and yet no poem ever sounds the same...your imagination is infinite, and you always manage to come up with things in every poem that are fresh, unique, and staggering in their power...what more can I say, you've done it again love, and left me staggering in your wake, again...xo

[Frieda P]

I live to shock your system Benji, mission accomplished! :) Seriously, thanks so much my sweet friend, you've put a huge smile on my poetic heart. xo

[kublakhan27]

Haha Cuz you know I need it Mrs.R ;) I bow down to your talent Frieda, you know that...you also know how much it means to me to make you and your heart smile :) xo

[Lyn Anderson]

For me, this is about the things we cannot forget that haunt us, and we cannot escape no matter how hard we try. They haunt our waking moments, our dreams, our writes, even though they are just ghosts.
One thing -- not sure revelations is possessive in this case.

[Frieda P]

Thanks for the heads up KL, changed that line at the last minute, think I might just drop the 'in'....

[BennyBooth]

'Quater past forget-me nots!' ..... 'slipped a noose in honor' .... the way you articulate is wonderful! I am always holding my chest reading your work!

Lovely !!! : ))

[Frieda P]

Thanks muchly for such a glowing review Benny! :)

[Einstein Noodle]

i think some of our best poetry has been put away long ago .. re-reading and exploring the things that wrenched it from our bodies and souls and hearts can be revealing .. this is the killer line for me:
"bleeding 'tween scar tissue" .. wow!! wowzy!! wow ;) life is a process eh!? forever twisting and turning and churning
la vie est un processus (that's what the French say :)
E.

[Frieda P]

I concur E...and why does everything sound so muchly better in French? :)

[MomzillaNC]

"Quarter past forget-me-nots…" Great line!

NOTE: I think this one needs to be broken into stanzas.

[Frieda P]

Actually it was 'forget-me-knots', but who's counting? :) Why do you suggest that, just wondering.

[MomzillaNC]

Sorry about dropping the "K" Old eyes. :D

I think it needs stanzas -- or, rather, into couplets, purely from a visual standpoint. I think it would give the lines more impact and direction.

[MomzillaNC]

Sorry about dropping the "K" Old eyes. :D

I think it needs stanzas -- or, rather, into couplets, purely from a visual standpoint. I think it would give the lines more impact and direction.

[Frieda P]

No problem, I think I'm going to need glasses soon myself. Wanted the thought to be consistent and flow through to the end, stanzas felt choppy to me...

[MomzillaNC]

I know I wrote "stanzas," but I meant "couplets."