Sometimes poets write poems they dont understand - a poem seems to have no obvious reference to the poet's life. This poem seemed ominous when I wrote it - it has the aura of the old Highland idea of the 'second site'. I wrote it a few years back now using internal rhyme patterns borrowed from traditional Welsh and Irish poetic forms.
Go to 'To Rest Your Ghost' copyright 2006 all rights reserved. This poem published in the Mozzie poetry journal (Australia) 2008.
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
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