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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Twitter: frugalcoupons
April 9, 2015
I should have started the prompts. no good in poetry though.
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April 10, 2015
Maybe next year!
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
Love old buildings.. what stories they could tell! Thanks for a great poem and blessings on your blog challenges.
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
April 10, 2015
Thank you so much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
Wonderful poem! It expresses exactly what a home should be.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
April 10, 2015
Thank you so much!
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April 9, 2015
Very good Laurel!
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April 10, 2015
Thank you, Rena!
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April 9, 2015
Oh, I love this one. The shape definitely adds another dimension. So creative!
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April 10, 2015
Thank you!
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
I love the shape of home! Very clever.
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April 10, 2015
Thank you!
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April 9, 2015
I loved this one, too. My house isn’t quite 100 years old, and it doesn’t have a steep roof, but I sometimes wonder at what happened here.
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April 10, 2015
Thank you! It’s an interesting thing to think about.
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
Lovely!! It’s hard to find such old buildings here now, everything’s being demolished and rebuilt!
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April 10, 2015
Oh, that’s a shame!
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April 9, 2015
You make me feel that participating in these challenges is way too easy. That’s how you write your blog posts. Once having read it, I feel , oh yes, this is so very easy to be written. But then, that spark never is ignited within me for the said topic, the way it gets ignited within you. Kudos to you.
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April 10, 2015
Thank you so much for your kind words! 🙂
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April 10, 2015
Sweet poem, Laurel.
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April 10, 2015
Thank you. 🙂
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April 10, 2015
Yes, I bet the walls have a lot of interesting stories…if only they could talk! 😉 I also wrote about home Laurel! http://www.xpressyouressence.blogspot.ca/2015/04/a-to-z-challenge-h-is-for-home.html
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April 10, 2015
Yes, if only!
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
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April 10, 2015
Love the home poem and so clever making it into the shape of a house. Wouldn’t it be great if the house could talk and tell you stories? It would be fascinating, there is no doubt.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
April 10, 2015
It would be wonderful indeed!
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April 10, 2015
Beautiful! Our first home (probably always my favorite home) was 70+ years old, and only had 2 previous owners. It almost felt as though I knew the first owner and her family, although I never met them, because of all the interesting touches they added to the house.
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
April 10, 2015
Oh, now that would be interesting! Sounds like a lovely home.
Laurel Regan recently posted… NaPoWriMo + Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2015 – H is for…
In the days when we lived in a very old country cottage I often used to wonder about its past life. Not nearly so poetically, though 🙂
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April 10, 2015
It’s fun to think about it!
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April 11, 2015
How cool that you put your poem in the shape of a house! 🙂 You’ve really captured the feel of “home” with your words, too. It’s a shame that so many old buildings are demolished.
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April 11, 2015
Thank you! I agree – I love old buildings, and wish more of them could be preserved.
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