Annabel Lee (There’s a Ghost in my Post)

First of a new series of past posts revisited. I came across this poem by Edgar Allan Poe, (1809 – 1849) the American mystery and horror writer. The poem is about Poe’s first love Annabel Lee and it is the last completed poem Poe ever wrote. The subject, as well as being about lost love,

Cloudlessly

My tongue lies cloudlessly stilled by events that I have seen before. these dreams don’t lie in their redemption. The splattered mud still seeks to stick within each measured past division. and cannot reconcile the thud resounding my decision. I see no need to raise my head above a shattered parapet. And yet … Lynda