Poltergeist, lyric Options

[Merlin]

Here's a shorty, note that the writer and narrator are not the same.



Poltergeist

When evening shadows grope
over the boxwood hedge,
screeches careen into my ears
here in this blue-lit room
where twilight shelters me
but still that poltergeist appears.

There’s nowhere left I can run
and nothing more for me to do.
What’s that? I hear footsteps. *
There’s nobody here!
No-one is near,
no dreaded incubus, **
no evil voodoo spell,
no booze to paralyze my fear.


* formerly 1 sentence with comma.
** originally phantom incubus,
leading to probable tautology, thx Jax

[Merlin]

Thank you for listing the definitions for careen, Jax. Give a bit of imagination, one should fit my application.

Thank you, Wally. Hopefully the year long drought is over. There is some indication of that on some of the other sites also, where those who fell into a doldrums spell are coming back.

Thank you, Peggy, and you are so right. I'll amend that sentence so that it and is should strengthen the image of a confused mind with choppier sentences. Yup, comma is wrong and ought to be a semi-colon. I'll make a complete stop there instead.

Your comments are appreciated.

Merlin