Unfolding a locket

• Eleisha Rogers, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2005

WHISPERS of a storm tossed sea,
Secrets of a white ribbon path,
Questions of a silhouette woman,
Murmurs of a long lost past.

THE clink of wine glasses toasting,
The swishing of a dresss unheard,
The cold comes closing nearer,
On wings of a gold ghost bird.

PAPERS on a polished desk,
A ink bottle's shattered shards,
Not a cloak hanging on a hook,
An upturned box missing cards.

SUCH are pages of a book so turned,
Of life from one and many learned,
So many stories that are kept untold,
In a locket packed away in folds.