Bluebeard's Ghost

©2015, Olan L. Smith

I do believe a ghostly land

Is real and will occur, demand

The harbingers of Misty Port,

Impatience Bluebeard's best report

Does stand in facets' tidal land.

Open pubs and toast the dead

We stand in passages foresaid

Our life is death enough my friend

I do believe

That humankind will fare as well

Though we depart our souls dispel

Our life to pits of hell, so seize

My soul, my body breathe

No reprieve a ghost's entail―

I do believe.

(Photograph of me with my painting of the 'Nathaniel Bowditch')