Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words spirit and/or specter, totaling up to 150 lines in length including stanza breaks, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PDT on October 20th. No PDF's please. Color and B&W artwork are also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Spirits and Specters will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Shih-Fang Wang

Haunted

 

Why do I feel cold air blowing on me

Is this house haunted? I will ask the host

Are there spirits roaming around free 

 

He said the house is empty but I don’t agree

A howling so strange scares me to the utmost

Why do I feel cold air blowing on me

 

The light suddenly shrinks to the size of a pea

Something moves around in the corner post    

Are there spirits roaming around free

 

This place smells of stale fish I want to flee

There is also a strong stench of moldy toast

Why do I feel cold air blowing on me

 

They let me stay but I can’t be carefree

Goose bumps all over me, it is no boast

Are there spirits roaming around free

 

I might be hallucinating to some degree   

But I just saw the shadow of a ghost

Why do I feel cold air blowing on me

There must be spirits roaming around free

 

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