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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GYPSY GHOST, by LUELLA STONE
First Line: Tonight you heard wild birds in flight, then sent
Last Line: Swift silent ships like whispers in your eyes.
Subject(s): Birds; Gypsies; Gipsies
First Line: Tonight you heard wild birds in flight, then sent
Last Line: Swift silent ships like whispers in your eyes.
Subject(s): Birds; Gypsies; Gipsies
Tonight you heard wild birds in flight, then sent
An answer....Some still night some shrill bird's flight
Will steal your soul....Your haunted soul will scent
Thin haunting breath in incense smoke, will sight
Bright flames like Indian arrows... dying, high
White lines like silent fingers in one plea....
Your heart will hear one eerie wild bird's cry,
Your wild bird's wings start beating to be free
To follow one sun's gold, some lonely star
To purple-patterned, palette-painted lands....
These topaz rainbow beads could lead you far
To bright fleet-footed dreams in Gypsy bands.
Sometime you'll see some wine leaf on some tree,
One white winged sea repeating wind-swept skies,
Some copper-colored camplight call... I see
Swift silent ships like whispers in your eyes.
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