Words of a Poet

I have finally gotten a website up and running to host poetry on. Poetry has been something I've been passionate about for a while now, since high school. I wrote nearly everyday for two years, until I started blogging. Now I have my poetry blog, Words of a Poet.

Do you have old poetry laying around with no where to share it? Submit it to my newest poetry blog, and you can have your poems published there. Of course you will have credit for it, and a link to your website if you like. Even if you submit a poem you enjoy I will give you a link.

Currently I have several of my poems published there, with many more to come. I hope to be update the website daily with my poems, your poems, famous poems, and really great quotes.

There is more information about the website and me on the about page of the blog.

Ghost Afterlife

I am going to try a little something different here. My blogs have been far from personal. Just about blogging, earning money, other blogs, you get the idea. I have been mulling over the idea of a new website, featuring my old poetry, song lyrics, and other bloggers poetry as well. To try to test out how good the response is, I am going to post a few poems here and on Blog about your Blog.

Comments are encouraged. Thank you.

Ghost Afterlife
3/25/04

Like a ghost
You see right through me
Invisible to your sight,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You walk right through me
I’m undetectable from your touch,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You can’t hear me
My words have fallen deaf to your ears,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You can feel my presence
but your not sure if I’m real
I’ve been overlooked, but I’m here

Like a ghost, you can reach through my body
Which you've already done
And pull out my non-existent heart
Which you've already broken

All I am now is a ghost
Trying not to disappear
Piece by piece I start to vanish
Trying to hold on, to my afterlife

By Matthew Henrickson