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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #2175411
Surreal poem
Pop-Up Ghosts

In the dried up sandy aftermath
         of a fresh desert storm
                   I lie on a wet blanket
                             of smooth diamond water.

                   I float
                             closer and closer
                   to the smoky wish
         I see fading
into the ebbing hoizon

Pop-up ghosts
                   of Beaudelaire and Dowson
                             dance on the edge
                                       of this star-dusted skyline
                                                 
                   I can almost hear
                             their newly composed poems
                                       crashing headlong
                                                 into the approaching waves

                                                 The words
                                                           are swimming ferociously
                                                 toward me

         As I drift on my blanket
of smooth diamond water
I am magnetized and pulled
into into their eternal vibration

         
                   The one thought in my mind:

         How to get them onto my damp paper
                   without the ink running
                             and the words
                              becoming
                    indecipherable

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