Ghostest with the Leastest

A  rather spooky coincidence this week. Two prompts about ghosts on the same day!

Is it a message from the Beyond?

THURSDAY THINK TANK

http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2011/03/thursday-think-tank-39-ghosts.html

Topic: Ghosts

GHOSTEST WITH THE LEASTEST

I think ghosts are memes!

 That's the way they strike me.

I don't believe in a single one

And there are others like me.

Somebody aeons ago

Thought up all that baloney

And 'believers' down the ages

Have latched-on to the phoney.

Maybe somebody was downcast,

Maybe newly bereaved;

He imagined he 'saw' the departed

And his story was believed.

'I've seen one too!' cried the masses,

'In the middle of the night!

Oooooh! It was terribly creepy!

It gave me such a fright!'

And, bit by bit, the meme caught-on,

Part-serious and part-fun,

And soon the idea of haunting

Was believed by everyone.

I've never seen a poltergeist,

I've never heard chains rattling,

I've never heard a spooky voice

With its other-worldly prattling.

So I'll continue to disbelieve............

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Oooooh! One might come and get me!

Until it does I wont allow

The idea to upset me!

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PLUS

MAD KANE

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2011/03/10/ghost-writing-humor/

asks for a 'ghostly limerick'

PARCEL GHOST

One day, when I opened my post,

I found someone had sent me a ghost!

It looked me in the eye

Then it uttered a cry!

And flew off to some place on the coast.

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FRENZY

Though not of the computer age,

The art it has inspired

Fascinates me.

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Here is depicted

'Frenzy'.

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See the mind

Trying to break through,

To make sense,

To unravel!

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See the meaningless strands

And feathers and wings.

Hear the screech!

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I can.

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