Haunting Ghosts

A Haunted Echo Haiku

By Nikki Torino WagnerPublished 4 months ago • 1 min read

Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash

Living are haunted

by ghosts held captive. Strangled

with love left behind.

Haiku heartbreak sad poetry

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Nikki Torino Wagner

I know stories. After getting suspended for peddaling my own magazine, in grade school, I started contributing to the local paper's weekly column. In college, I co-edited, and won several awards, for our paper and literary magazine.

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Jamye Sharp4 months ago
Very true.

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