Haiku | “i’m a ghost haunting”

January 3, 2016 by Peter Galen Massey

I’m a ghost haunting / the young man so alive still / in my photographs

Posted in Haiku | Tagged haiku, Poems | 3 Comments

on January 3, 2016 at 7:03 pm | Reply susanriverside

The image works with the words
on January 5, 2016 at 11:13 am | Reply timeral5442

i especially like this one- perfect in many ways and as it continues to haunt the reader. i appreciate how you can help me become more aware. As I ponder photographs my mother has on her wall above me I recognize all the more the moment in time that is ‘still’ and yet memory still moves.
- on January 5, 2016 at 3:43 pm | Reply Peter Galen Massey
  
  The actual original inspiration for this was last fall, when I returned to my college to serve on an alumni committee. I was walking around by myself the first evening and felt – literally, literal use of the word literally – like a ghost. I’m not prone to strong, overt emotional reactions so this stayed in my mind. That’s a long story for a haiku however so I was stuck until my wife’s mother show us some old photographs over the holidays and I had the feeling again, not as strong but strong enough. And then, as creative types say … Bob’s your uncle.