ghost

can i face you, ghost
and know everything
that what isn’t said
could be
but is masked instead in a mist…

its chosen way
lose yourself
in me
when you feel you see me
but don’t

a side of me, you follow
gone like mist, maybe sleeping

eyes lost
given
proudly to you
and for you

© r.e.l. 3/15/11

this poem inspired uncleblack to compose a song ‘ghost’ using these lyrics… posted on bandcamp (the katie winter).

thank you! 🙂

posted for Poetry Potluck 3/27-4/2 on Jingle Poetry

featured in Feminine Intent on redbubble

thank you

[image by saltmotion]

thanks so much, fiveloaf, for the Versatile Blogger award.  it’s quite the honor coming from you.. i so enjoy your writing.  here are seven facts about me:

  • i have a war with time (always more passionate about doing something over being on time),
  • i’m a mother lion of three crazy and intelligent kids,
  • i live in the trees,
  • i’m inspired by staring into a fireplace,
  • i love to imagine who the wind touches next which just touched me,
  • yoga is a way of life for me,
  • in my previous life i lived in the warm ocean

~robin

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beat of my drum
trisha
LeiffyV
Life: between the lines
lunawitch
runaway sentence
heather grace stewart

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