The good folk at Australian Speculative Fiction have been provocative enough with their choice of photograph to cause a poem to be born, and kind enough to give it a home, here at their website.
I thank them. Speculative fiction has not been something I had considered at all until recently. Now, I may just be hooked.
here
in the graveyard
of abandoned dreams
the ghost
in the wind is free
to play
listen …
the squeal
is the rhythm
of a swing grown too rigid
to back and forth
by wistful breath
the rattle
of the branches
speaks
urging
come on
come on
but the ghost remains
opaque
even as it moans
a hollow
to the sky
oh oh
oh-oh
the slide
is a shriek of shivers
of a fingernail
and a drag
from the top
right to the bottom
of the cry
and somewhere
disappearing
is a remnant
of the laughter
of a child
ha-a ha-ha-ha
ha-a
ooo-oo-ooo
oh
the ghost in the wind
is in
the mist
and in the fog
it is not free
it cannot
play
~
About the author: Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills…
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Excellent! 🙂
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Thanks Tom. A good photo seems to provoke something from me.
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Congratulations, Frank
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I like the contrast in this piece, Frank, the way you evoked the corroded solidity on one hand and the insubstantial left-over dreams on the other, very powerful.
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It was a nice picture to write to, Steve. I’m really enjoying that approach as a poetic outlet.
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PS and congrats. Haha, I was absorbed by the poem.
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Thanks Steve. I’m doing a ‘stranger intercepted’ appearance at a Dymocks on Saturday. What have I done with my life?
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That’s fantastic, Frank. I am going to Buddhist answer your rhetorical question. You do things that help people, for example, by bringing them enjoyment and expanding their thoughts. If there is something else, I don’t know what it is.
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Buddhism and rhetoric? Beautiful. Thank you Steve. Life is good.
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