Bluebeard's Ghost

Rondeau

I do believe a ghostly land

Is real and will occur, demand

The harbingers of Misty Port,

Impatience Bluebeards best report

Does stand in facets' tidal land.

Open pubs and toast the dead

We stand in passages foresaid

Our life is death enough my friend

I do believe

That humankind will fare as well

Though we depart our souls dispel

Our life to pits of hell, so seize

My soul, my bodies breathe

No reprieve a ghost's entail―

I do believe.

©2015, Olan L. Smith