HAUNTED • by Dianna L. Gunn

I can feel you in my dreams
haunting me;
making me bleed –
your shadows chasing me
for all eternity.

What do you want of me?
Is it not enough
to know what you have
already done?

You took everything from me then;
yet still you pursue me
though I am but a broken woman
with nothing left.

Is this the extent of your cruelty?
If so…
it is too bad,
for you will not be able to haunt me
in death.

Dianna L. Gunn is a fifteen-year-old writer who has spent the last eight years of her life dreaming of becoming a published author.  She has a blog at http://fictionalworlds.net where she has been blogging for over a year, and a self-published poetry collection available from her store at Lulu.com.  She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she has spent her entire life.

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Posted on January 23, 2009 in Poems
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9 Responses to “HAUNTED • by Dianna L. Gunn”


  1. D.C. Porder Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 am

    The last line is quite punchy. I like how the poem is structured around questions. Also, I like that the second person subject is never given a face. One thing I wanted was stronger verbs. However, the lack of strong verbs did not detract in any major way from my reading of the poem.

    Nice job, Ms. Gunn. At 15 years old it was only my wildest dream that I’d EVER get published.

  2. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Nice work, Dianna.

  3. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 am

    I think it is so sad a poem and so angry.

  4. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Unusually sensitive writing about an experience alien to a very young writer writing about the bitterness of an older woman’s (possibly very old, since death is mentioned) experience of suffering.

    The sympathetic, insightful evocation seems to change at the last two lines. Is it me, or the poem? To me, the poet herself seems to turn away impatiently at the complaints of the old sufferer in emotional assent to her death.

  5. Gray Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 9:20 am

    A nice effort, especially for a fifteen year old. I did not even know waht a poem was at the age of fifteen.

  6. dj barber Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Good voice given the dark mood–kept me reading.

  7. Sue Borgersen Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Great stuff Dianna – I’d like to read more of your work so I’m off to look at lulu.com

    I’m inclined to agree about the last two lines and for me this piece is just as powerful without them

  8. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    The last two lines can be read as the suicide threat of a grown woman – not the words of an older woman – but of a victim who has decided to put an end to the tyranny of remembering. I thought that the duality of that was both clever and mature.

  9. Erin Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    I particularly liked the first stanza of this poem. Creepy imagery.

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