Month: May 2021

My Ghosts

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I’ve been thinking a lot about ghosts and I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is like to be haunted. Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Are ghosts just the Muses playing a little Trick or Treat on us?

I haven’t figured that out yet.

In that Spirit ( see what I did there? )  I chose this quote from Steinbeck’s novella ” Tortilla Flat and some very lovely and haunting artwork by Vincent Van Gogh- a truly haunted soul if there ever was one, for today’s One Liner Wednesday.

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Vincent van Gogh

“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

Vincent van Gogh

For Linda G Hill’s One Liner Wednesday

Alfreda’s House

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PROMPTUARIUM Prompt: I Remember

Andrew Wyeth
Harlequin

I remember

Alfreda’s  house around the corner from where I lived

it was full of dusty people

and unmade beds

watery shadows

trapped in dirty windows

that looked out over a field

where a scarecrow had  a blanket covered with

Chrysanthemums and the white Carnations

draped over it’s head.

 

The scarecrow in Alfreda’s field

waited for the birds to come back

but they never did.

 

It was a shame because

that scarecrow was very

hungry and the days in that field

never came

but the night always did and sometimes

I thought I saw the Scarecrow  turn it’s head towards the house

and sometimes I thought I heard

all of the doors in Alfreda’s house

slam shut  with rusty terrified screams.

 

That One Really Hurt

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RDP Tuesday: Liars

Photographer Unknown

The cruelest lie I was ever told

was

“I love  you .”

That one really hurt until it occurred to me-

Liars carve their words in stone

fitting grave markers

to bury them under 

sooner rather then later.

The Backrow Student

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Word of The Day Challenge: APPLICATION

Franz von Stuck “Dissonanz,”

I took singing lessons

lots and lots of singing lessons

of course I could not sing

but did that stop me?

It did not! I’d belt those ugly sounding  notes out anyway by jingo.

 

I took driving lessons

but did I learn to drive well

did I learn all of the rules

was I going to be a skillful and confident driver?

Oh heck no! But I know that. So I don’t drive like a jackass.

 

I used to take

all kinds of classes

and I bombed out of each and every one.

Did I ever learn to sew or write screenplays? Did I learn anything at all?

I did not. I am the black hole of any education system you toss my way.

 

What I did learn was to fail

and I suppose that is the most important lesson to learn of them all.

I can fail on an epic  scale with a smile and dignity and grace.

I can even  crash and burn and lick my own wounds.

Which, really is not such a bad thing to know how to do.