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
15 random poems
- A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity by William Butler Yeats
- Гавриил Державин – Анакреоново удовольствие
- Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ballade Made In The Hot Weather by William Ernest Henley
- Зинаида Александрова – Кролики
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Стефан Малларме – Звенящий зимний день
- Robert Burns: On Sensibility: Fragment
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Владимир Маяковский – Раек (РОСТА №8)
- Eternal Drift by Satish Verma
- Honor Among Scamps by Vachel Lindsay
- Do You Remember 1914 Grandad? by Steve Sant
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
