Poetry – THE HAUNTED GALLERY (By Henryk Baranski)

THE HAUNTED GALLERY

 

The motion pictures

gave life to those

on screen

 

Made them immortal

forever looking

and then acting

and then talking

into our eyes

 

So much so

that far from running

back from the approaching train

one reaches

into the screen

with corpulent,

lustful arms,

to grab the disrobed woman,

now condemned,

as a ghostly shadow,

to haunt the screen

for the rest of

eternity.

 

[su_henryk_baranski]