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 all for the added comments. I had privately thanked Cleo, Bev & Leonora for theirs, so as not to bump an aging thread to the top.

It's back near the top, so thank you Mike, and it is a pleasure to meet once again. At the moment, I've all but disappeared off the net, having seemingly run out of thyme & rhythm. You're right - I was once a strict R & M supporter but have crossed the bridge to the other camp. That transition has been anything but easy since my own principles require me to put out an acceptable product. Having rules and parameters makes it much easier than flying on ones own, I found, because even the phrase "free verse" uses the word "verse" which is very important to me. My own choice is not to call it "free verse", rather "open form" since little is "free" in that department. What I will not do is the common "teenager love rant" that is all too often called free verse poetry.

All that said, I've learned so much along the way that can be applied in both camps, and have come to a greater understanding of what some of the masters did in the past, whether knowingly or not. Our mutual friend Ron (jgd) and I have had some very excellent discussions on topics over time.

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Considering "Poltergeist" >>
Poltergeist is a ghost (not spirit) that causes disruption, complete with noise.
From German, the noun Polter means a woodpile of sorts, which has nothing to do with Poltergeist. The verb Poltern means to rumble, and the ghost haunts a house creating a noisy ruckus. Consider "Polterabend", a night of festivities prior to a wedding when ceramics are smashed for reasons lost into time, but including the driving off evil spirits.

Many thanks,

Merlin