Cynthia
 
🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  🎃    Wordle #294   First, a few lines from Lord Weary’s Castle , a book of poetry by Robert Lowell. From: The Ghost (After Sextus Propertius)*   “ You cannot turn your back upon a dream, For phantoms have their reasons when they come :” Prompt words in red.   I sleep  alone ,   yet not entirely alone .   I lay in dark secret    whisper ing  to a ghost .   Someone  no longer bone ,   now un washed and rotting black .   Still, under my silk canopy   she sparkles  golden.       ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserve #mindlovemiserysmenagerie #MLMM #wordle#294 #theghost #robertlowell #freeversepoetry #wordpromptpoem #wordpromptpoetry   *Sextus Propertius was an Italian poet of ancient Rome.  Published in 29 BCE, the first of his first four books of elegies is called Cynthia , who is the heroine of the works.  Cynthia, real name Hostia, was the author's mistress.  In elegy IV:7 Cynthia's ghost is featured.   https://www....
