ghost-writer

ghost moon,
a starlight apparition,

moss-eaten face of a howl,
black birds sweep

a shattered flight,
before a clump of ficus trees

i am writing your epitaph
from across the netherworld

'one-legged wanderer
on the eye of Jupiter',

pressing coins into your eyes,
dangling your name into a fiery river

i am coal-fired,
burning comet trails

on interstellar paper,
druids made before time

Reviews

[Cyndy Robinson]

Love the poem, love the imagery. My name means Moon Goddess. Not sure what that means, but I have had a lot of fun with it. I have a German Shepherd and I keep telling her lets go outside and howl at the moon! lol. The moon is mysterious and so much fun to write about!

[highonwords]

hi cyndy - i keep asking myself - how does the moon look like tonight - it looks like a tattered, rat-bitten, jagged stone to me, from out of a bigger, boulder rock - then this poem came, too, ghost-like

thank you so much for your visit and for sharing your thoughts, especially the meaning of your name

steph

[Cyndy Robinson]

I don't seem to ever write about what I want to write steph, so I get it. I have a weird writing process. I hear people say I wrote this at breakfast and my eyes bulge. I usually write stuff all over a page and it just comes together however it comes together. Its not linear its all over the place and stuck together like a jigsaw puzzle and edit from there.

[highonwords]

i get a lot of words jumbled all over the place - it looks like weather inside my head - sometimes the poem lets me take over, other times it leads me where it wants to belong

steph

[Cyndy Robinson]

ah, we are alike in that, start out writing about one thing, and something else comes out. Sometimes it doesn't, but my best work comes out when it does that, lol. So I don't care.

[highonwords]

hehehehehe :)

steph

[Terry O'Leary]

Brilliant imagery... a nd dark!

[highonwords]

thank you, terry, for your words

my best,
steph

[Érenn]

Now I know just how much of a change has come in the way you write. This is wordplay on a different level. What imagery invoked here. Dark and chilling. Ghost writer, you have literally given it a new meaning with this write. My favourite lines: i am writing your epitaph from across the netherworld What a chilling narrative. The river Phlegethon was invoked when I read fiery river, making me wonder if Jupiter here is indeed Zeus. and the it's a someone from the Underworld who has come back on earth. A different for me for sure. But a very enjoyable one. I like it much ^^ Thank you for sharing ^^

[highonwords]

i keep looking at the moon, and have read many descriptions about it from other writers - i usually see it looking like a tattered old cloth, pale, like an apparition, instead of the full moon it becomes later at night - and then the lines came to me - ghost writer invokes a sense of timelessness of poetry - thank you, errenn, for such insightful review

my best to you,
steph

[gabrielle]

Steph, there's so much snippet of haunting images (at least to me) you painted in here. The eye of Jupiter is quite creepy. It makes me wonder who is the supposed speaker of the voice.

[highonwords]

hi ate gabs -

ate, palagi ko kasi nakikit yung buwan na parang tshirt na punit-punit, andaming butas, nagisip ako kung ano bang english na description na pwede sa kanya, naisip ko parang multo kaya ghost moon, tapos kailangan may unity yung mga references sa tula, di ba, kaya naging medyo nakakatakot yung tula, pero overall, ang message ko dito is the way na nabubuhay ang mga sinusulat natin, kahit wala na tayo, the way na nabubuhay ang tula sa mata at puso ng mga nagbabasa nito

sorry ate, kung nakakatakot yung tula,

steph

[gabrielle]

No need to apologize, Steph. The mere fact that i got "scared" of the images you painted only shows that you poem is effective.. Thank you for sharing the intent of your piece, kaya ako nagbabasa ng tula dahil gusto ko i-decipher ang meaning. Ginagawa kong parang riddle ang tula :)

[highonwords]

thank you ate for the comment and visit :)

steph