Melting Snow

Ghost and Grateful Dead Song Titles Poem

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

I learned a new word,
Ambergris1 or gray amber,
While reading and reviewing.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for DAY 1187
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.” Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son What do you make of this quote? Are there any living ghosts in your life or in the life of someone you know?

Ghost

I don't, necessarily, agree with the quote. Sometimes, the ghost in our lives are living people who are out of range, but not always. At other times, ghost are echoes from people passed into the next world who haven't learned to let go of their past or what happened to them while the spirits were still wed to their physical bodies. It could, also, be that the person died so suddenly that the spirit hasn't yet realized the body is dead and decomposing. Another explanation, I've contemplated, is that place hold onto the shadows of traumatic events which held a lot of negative emotions when they occurred.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1671
Use the following Grateful Dead song titles in a story: touch of grey, sugar magnolia, Uncle John's band, box of rain, friend of the devil.

Questions the Preacher Man Asked:
A Poem Inspired by
Grateful Dead Song Titles

"Are you a friend of the devil,"
Preacher man asked
while pounding a gavel.

"Is that touch of gray
God's way
of telling you
that your death is nigh?"

"Can lovers hold a box of rain,
walking hand-in-hand
down Satan's Lane?"

Are you a member of Uncle John's band
or do you spread Lucifer's music
across the planet
and your native land?"

Do you drink bottles of sugar magnolia
while playing a Folia2
on Beelzebub's guitar?"

Footnotes
1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
2  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folia