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Friday, November 28, 2025

Ghost In Every Photograph

Ghost In Every Photograph
© Surazeus
2025 11 28

I sense your absence all over our home 
so I feel comfortable in empty rooms, 
and gaze out glassless window of my heart 
to watch your shadow flicker on bright grass 
as you tend garden of flowers and herbs 
and sing through tunes of sparrows in pear trees. 

You are sweet ghost in every photograph 
which I have taken all over the world 
whom no one else can see with mortal eyes 
though you are present in every lush scene, 
soul shining bright as secret morning star, 
framed by the wordless memories of my heart. 

When I wander blind in vast wilderness 
after thieves invade safe haven I built 
I shiver frail in anxious misery, 
groping through spiritless gloom of regret, 
till bright light of your heart illuminates 
empuzzled landscape of my aching heart. 

I hope lamp of my heart shines bright for you 
as you for me with guiding prudency 
so we, united with vigorous goals, 
combine assertive efforts of our hearts 
to build safe haven we share as one mind, 
constructing paradise from cautious hope. 

Soft whiteness from brave words of love I speak 
wraps cape of passion to veil fragile heart 
that shields your systematic chemistry 
from hostile strikes of order-fractured skies 
stretched audaciously from uprooted base 
by overzealous hope for honesty. 

At flash of sunlight creeping over hills 
we start insurgency of tragic faith 
through breathing exercise of glimpsed respect 
for supple vastness bounding Earth with gloom 
till emptiness of holy rooms reveals 
brave earnestness which motivates our fight. 

Thus always we transcend lame tendency 
to transform architecture of our brains 
with complex rhythms solving vacancies 
through graduated formulas for flight 
based on promotion our intentions earn 
since death dissolving leaves our souls alive. 

Equipped with mental clock of measured force, 
significant for missionaried clans, 
we build new empire on commercial games 
to balance use value with labor cost 
through fair exchange of clever services 
that conjure your ghost from my memories. 



3 comments:

  1. Orpheus and Ophelia settle down in fertile valley of the hooting owl to raise three children with calm discipline by teaching compassion for all living beings.

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  2. In Korean drama "Master's Sun" Tae Gong-shil, played by talented Gong Hyo-jin, is a woman who had an accident and spent three years as a ghost hanging out with a man who could see her. They traveled together to many places where he photographed her ghost in beautiful scenes, but she does not appear in the photographs he published in a book. She is the ghost in the every photograph.

    https://www.netflix.com/title/80039906

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  3. Also, my wife has flown to the other side of the planet to visit her homeland Indonesia so I feel her absence as a ghost in every room of our home.

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