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
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- The Sitter by Shel Silverstein
- To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- The Leäne by William Barnes
- The School of Night
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- Владимир Британишский – Богаевский
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
- Alfred’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Живой труп (РОСТА №182)
- How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Гавриил Державин – На Новый год
- Ad Magistrum Ludi by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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).
