Every once in a while
I pop in to see
The lone hut with the withering bent oak
The house with the cracking ceiling
The roadside solitary sedan that was
Once an expensive car-on-four-working-wheels.
The broken bench in a park,
The leaf from a low, bent branch.
The dead of a pigeon’s nest.
The dying of the humans rest.
The buried old in my home,
The ragged rolled in your dome,
The distressed dump at my house,
The carefully clumped in your shroud.
Once in a while I try to see,
Twice of these days, I long to see.
The love in the eyes of the old.
The longing for every one of their own.
The sweat in each brick of the crumbling house,
The bee hive along the sides of the hut.
The birds making nest in the ye old oak.
The dog making home in the vintage baroque.
I see the impaired ant that waits
for its sunrise death when weak,
It drinks the last dew drop that
hangs from the dwindling pale sprig.
I venture daily,
only looking for reasons,
I see everything going,
advancing to the heavens.
Living by the day,
and season to season.
Slowly encumbered, Ultimately ageing,
Finally defeated, definitely dying,
Ultimately succumbing to the
Dreaded death wish defined.
Reblogged this on Ineffably Ethereal and commented:
Loved it! It has that distant wary beauty that you experience with everything in life!
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Hi, Aurora! Thank you for the reblog. I am delighted by your kind words.
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Reblogged on Ineffably Ethereal! Absolutely loved it!
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Wow, this is so lovely and well written, I love the pictures, I have a “thing” for old abandoned houses, they hold so many stories! This is my first visit to your blog and I love what I have seen so far, as time allows I look forward to reading much, much more!! Thank you for posting and sharing your talent, Namaste Michelle
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Oh, I am so humbled by your appreciative words 🙂 I hope you like what you see. It is true what you said about old, vintage places and objects. That was one of the inspirations behind the blog name. Thank you!
Namaste. 🙂
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Wonderful write, like the detailed imagery you have captured.
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Hi, Amitav! Thank you for your kind words 🙂 I am glad you visited the blog!
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Welcome. 🙂
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Lovely and beautiful… well written… 🙂
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Thank you! I couldn’t be happier to hear appreciative words from a seasoned blogger such as yourself. 🙂
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Good things must be praised and thank you for your kind words… keep writing… 🙂
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Absolutely!
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So profound and nostalgic.
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Thank you!
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