Last week I watched the movie Identity. The day after I visited Pure Fiction for the first time and immediately recognised the rhyme posted, since it was in the movie. Otherwise I wouldn´t have known it. Maybe it´s well know in the English spoken world, I don´t know, but to me it was a funny coincidence.
"Yesterday upon the stair I met
a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish to God he’d go away."
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Do you believe
in the supernatural?
Twice in my life
I´ve sensed the presence of something
Always at night in the dark
One time I saw a face coming out of the wall
The other time it was a man
tall and dark in my room
I didn´t know what to make of it
so I didn´t mention it to my two friends as we had breakfast
until one of them
told me about the man she had seen in my apartment that night
Do you believe?
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This is a Poetry Bus post, inspired by Pure Fiction.
15 visitors had something to say:
oh yeah, i believe there's something out there but i'm NOT interested :)
was reading your comment on g-man's 55 and i agree on you preparing for next friday, now! hope to see you there!
very nice...i have seen too much not to believe...
Dead is dead, you don't hang out trying to resolve unfinished business. Now UFOs and Bigfoot, those are real!!
It is an interesting dilemma now is it not? I believe we all sense or have wandered into some other blending of planes of existence that is bumping into ours at the most odd hours, and we are almost always along when it happens.
Lovely poem,, wish I knew for sure though.
Joanny
Ooooh - chilling and simple - like it.
Sheri - yup! Written and set to be posted on Friday! :-)
BrianMiller - really?
ThePhosgeneKid - hey, maybe it was Bigfoot then! ;-)
Joanny - interesting!
PureFiction - thank you! :-)
Aargh! Just what I needed when my husband is on nights.
I don't believe! I don't believe!
I think...
Pure Fiction is right. Simple yet cleverly wrought, and very chilling.
Yes, it certainly makes you think, doesn't it?
Is this a poem or a piece of prose broken into lines? It can read as prose too...
PeterG - good point. I think it is prose! :-)
I like the dry, wry humourous edge this has - as well as it's serious side.
Eerie. I got the creepy-crawlies over this one...
DominicRivron - thank you!
EnchantedOak - oh yes?
Eeek! How scary is this? And here's me reading it just before bedtime as well. Brrr!
Nice to meet you! You are freaking me out.
Kat
Argent - well...hope you could sleep anyway!
Poetikat - likewise...and I take that as a compliment! :-)
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