#ghost poems on Hello Poetry

Maitsholo Dec 2021

He was a stranger
And yet everything felt strange around him
It felt like I’ve known him for years
His energy was familiar
The character he portrayed
made everyone feel like he have always been around

A stranger became part of the fam

#ghost #strange

Jenna Nov 2021

Going Going Gone

I'm gone.

And if I'm not,
Then I'm slowly fading,
Erased from thought,
My mind degrading,
Memories on fire,
Existence blazing,
But through the fire,
I stand there gazing.

But...

I'm lost.

Because if I wasn't,
Then I would be found,
Raised from the ashes,
Like a phoenix heavenbound,
So I'll face the thrashes,
Of anxiety leaving my mind,
I am forever now ashes,
Of a phoenix,
That fell to the ground.

#ghost

lua Oct 2021

Untitled

ive seen you puke your soul out
in school bathrooms

ive seen you fade in and out
your fingertips flickering
in transparency

ive held you in my palms
skin cold, prickly with ice
you wrapped your arms around my waist
but i couldnt feel you

maybe youre a ghost
a ghost that seems to follow me around
a lost ghost with nowhere to go
and yet you seem to find me everywhere

maybe youre a shadow
too scared of the sun
hiding behind me for protection

maybe youre a one-off thought
the remnants of late night brainstorms
that thundered and raged on in my sleep-deprived mind

how come you never show your face anymore?

#shadow #ghost #soul #lost

Nigdaw Oct 2021

spirit

you are cold
to the touch
despite that smile
purporting warmth
wraith
ghost
spectre
from the corner of my eye
you cannot disguise
your shape
your shadow
your intent

#wraith #ghost #disguise #shadow

Alicia Moore Oct 2021

Graveyard Shift

The tedious graveyard shift comes around again,
The ghosts and ghouls of my past clocking in.
We meet each other at the silver gate;
We greet each other with the same stare each night.
I wonder if some will stay overtime with me under this moon,
Or if we can led our own paths once more come morning.

#graveyard #shift #night #moon #ghost #past #life #morning #trauma #haunt

thoughts to dump Sep 2021

safe space

i used to find escape
laughing at your inside jokes
occasionally glancing at the long roads
while we're driving 'round town;
and now, i'm not in the right headspace
you're still filling up my senses.

you still haunt me

#memories #ghost

Elise Jackson Sep 2021

a suspenseful tune in the distance

i found myself stuttering over your name in conversation

it was almost two months ago

although i keep wondering if it happened for a reason
maybe to prevent the eventual sobbing that night
doesn't mean i don't kick myself for it

i constantly feel the weight of your ghost
maybe it's selfish of me to notice the consistency of you
or to assume it is always you

or is it low of me to think that you wouldn't be there

i've held onto this thought since july

and i'm just angry you're dead

#personal #thoughts #grief #death #ghost #anxiety #poem #poet #prose #poetry