Detached Living
by P.J.Reed
Detached, aloof in
Red bricked splendour,
Roof tiles sat in
Frowning rows and
Watched with stony stares.
The chimney pot
Refused to smoke.
In a haze of purple velour
Bay windows shut their eyes;
While greying garden statues
Slowly turned away.
Golden leaves floated,
Whispering softly to
A wandering, wintry breeze.
The white gate screamed
On bleeding hinges;
Moaning to the wind.
And the robin flew away
And I was left outside, alone,
The dog, my child
And me.
Copyright ©: P.J.Reed
End of the poem
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- Because by Sara Teasdale
- Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Suicide Off Egg Rock by Sylvia Plath
- Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
- An Insolent Jew
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Девятое мая
- Together by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Fairy Bridal-Hymn by Vachel Lindsay
- These nights by Manushya Puthiran
- Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith
- Letters to the Otherworld
- Despair
- Bond and Free by Robert Frost
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