Tell your ghost stories
We want to hear them
On Monday we are going to be sharing some illustrations of your poems as well as doing an exciting reading right here on hellokoo+. The prompt is ghost stories and we want to have a wonderful scary Halloween with the spooks supplied by you! You can write a series of hellokoos or entirely abandon the form for this one. Leave your stories in the comments. Monday we celebrate you and your art. We can’t wait to read them.
I dreamt of wind
and woke to its lashing
ghosts of oceans
echoes of splashing
apparitions lure
catching mortals in noose nets
anchored to dark depths
undertow tempest
gusts pull my long hair; I gasp
throat parched, nares flared
azure skies reflect
raging swells of deceased seas
draining palid white
Las Vegas wind
ghosts of an ocean
her ancient sands
grit beneath my feet
Lake Mead repeats
the haunting cycle
with squinting eyes
in horror I see
retreating lifeblood
no more to wash upon shore
ghoulish graves exposed
phantom waves crash through
this valley dry as old bones
sunken dusty tomb
pleistocene scenes
replaced by mirage
of bobbing bodies
sunk by the mob
ghosts of oceans
violently thrashing
whipping sails
their vengeance gnashing
winds whoosh westerly
spirits swirl through trees like kelp
from unknown dark depths
can you not see them
gaping faces dissipate
haunting between fronds
voices howl through rock
demons of past disasters
and those yet to come
Dreams swirl in dark halls
(Distant corners of my mind)
Ghosts haunting my sleep