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COMICS & POEMS 2: Wandering Ghosts, Poetry

Wandering Ghosts

Often we watch the moon,
washed in its pale light,
thinking not beyond its brightness.
We are captured by that pale light,
as a fly on dewy web.
Many lights glitter
in the fathomless ether,
wandering and flashing,
like random streaks
upon man's passing genius.
What wandering ghosts are these
that sparkle in my mind,
drawing me, the dumb fly
caught in the sticky webs
of my human thoughtlessness.
The flickering in my eyes
is the ghost tracks of tears
for one now gone too long.
An empty heart, an empty web,
a wandering ghost.


--Written by James Shearer

This poem is featured in A Garden of Dreams, an Anthology of Poetry released by the International Library of Poetry in February 2002.

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