Poetry from A to Z *
(* NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge)
H is for… Home
~ by Laurel Regan
(Pssst… new here? Welcome to Alphabet Salad! For background on how and why I got involved in both NaPoWriMo and the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, check out this post… and, if you’d like to catch up on my progress to date, my challenge posts are tagged with Poetry from A to Z. Glad you stopped by, and hope you’ll return!)
so old
100 years or more
a century of life happened here
under the shelter of a steep-pitched roof
housed within the safety of sturdy grey-block walls
unknowable numbers of inhabitants
adults, children, couples and families
dwelt in these rooms: laughed, cried
cooked and ate, played, entertained
sang, danced, lived, loved, then slept
gone now – yet in a way they remain
as spirits of memory and experience
oh, if only these four walls could talk
i would listen to their stories forever
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