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Ghosted

Michelle Hoffman 1980 (Chattanooga, TN)

September 23 
Free verse
When I was looking for nothing
you appeared, opaque
then less so
and now clear
- a ghost -

Hand to my ear,
you quieted to a whisper
and then a tickle;
A single hair grazing my shoulder
and falling to the ground
to be later swept into the trash

I guess I got what I was looking for

About this poem

This is about modern dating and the disappointment that comes along with being ghosted.

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Written on January 15, 2022

Submitted by mcgillenator on September 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXX XAXAXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 282
Words 63
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 6, 1
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